Stockholm: A 26-year-old woman has been named as climate minister in the new government. With this, she became the youngest person to lead a ministry in the home nation of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Newly elected prime minister Ulf Kristersson proposed the nomination as one of the cabinet members.
Romina Pourmokhtari, 26, who was born in the Stockholm suburbs to an Iranian family, received the climate and environment portfolio and broke the previous record for the youngest minister, which stood at 27 years old.
Sweden’s coalition government was announced on Friday after Kristersson penned a deal with his partners and the nationalist and anti-immigration Sweden Democrats.
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