The Social Democratic Member of Parliament has lived and worked most of his life in Stockholm County and served as Minister of Higher Education and Research until 2019, now waiting six years in Västerbotten.

You were born, raised and have lived almost all your life in Stockholm. Is it then possible to come to northern Sweden and not start from a big city perspective?

- It is of course that I will have a certain part of a Stockholm perspective, but I want to get into and become a real patriot for Västerbotten County as quickly as possible, it feels important.

She says that Stockholm has its problems and challenges, especially with overcrowding and segregation, and that it is very different from Västerbotten.

- Here you have other challenges, the coastal cities are growing and developing while the inland and perhaps above all the sparsely populated municipalities have problems with population decline, so then it will be to get into that perspective.

She believes that a challenge is that you have an aging population and too few of working age. But she also highlights the strengths that exist in the county.

- When you look at those who are gainfully employed, there is a high level of entrepreneurship and you have a fairly high employment rate. But it must be strengthened and there must be more people at that age who can see that you can live outside the big cities and still get your life together with work and family.

How do you think about taking office during the corona crisis?

- It is a very special time we live in and what is sad is that you can not meet people. At the same time, it will also be a way to get into an important area of ​​responsibility that we have right now, and that is to coordinate in crises, and the County Administrative Board has done that.

She says that Västerbotten has managed the pandemic in a better way than other parts of the country, especially in elderly care, with lower mortality and small spread of infection. She believes that this is due to clear cooperation between different levels from the beginning.

- They have given up prestige and solved the problems and I like that, so it also feels exciting to come to a county that has handled this difficult in as good a way as possible.

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