Kent Härstedt

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birth_date = 29 January 1965
birth_place = Helsingborg, Sweden
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party = Swedish Social Democratic Party
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children = son Joel
residence = Helsingborg, Sweden
occupation = writer, journalist
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website = [http://www.kent.harstedt.pp.se/ Kent Härstedt]
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Kent Härstedt (29 January 1965Fact|date=June 2008 in Helsingborg –) is a Swedish social democratic politician, member of the Riksdag since the Swedish general election, 1998.sv icon cite web
url = http://www.riksdagen.se/Webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1111&iid=0910241260018
title = Riksdagen: Kent Härstedt (s)
accessdate = 2007-02-16]

Actively interested in politics since the age of 16, he was elected to the municipal council of Helsingborg, where he remained for six years. He worked as political adviser to vice foreign minister Pierre Schori between 1994 and 1996, and as a freelance writer for amongst others Svenska Dagbladet, Helsingborgs Dagblad and Arbetarebladet. In 1998 he was elected to the Riksdag and still remains there. In 2004 and 2005, he was also alcohol commissioner for the Swedish government.sv icon cite web
url = http://www.kent.harstedt.pp.se/personligt/personligt.htm
title = Kent Härstedt: Personligt / Om mig
accessdate = 2007-02-16]

Between 1999 and 2005, he was the chairman of the Swedish branch of UNICEF.

Härstedt is a survivor of the MS Estonia disaster in 1994. [sv icon cite news
author = Karin Thunberg
title = Tio år efter Estonia
url = http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/artikel_165214.svd
publisher = Svenska Dagbladet
date = 2004-09-36
accessdate = 2008-02-24]

Report as alcohol commissioner

In March 2005, Härstedt - alcohol commissioner on behalf of the Swedish government - in his report "Gränslös utmaning - alkoholpolitik i ny tid" proposed that the wine- and beer-taxes should be lowered by 30%, and that more resources should be allocated to information and other preventive measures. [sv icon cite news
author = Staffan Kihlström
title = Förslag sänka öl- och vinskatten med 30 procent
url = http://www.dn.se/?a=391393
publisher = Dagens Nyheter
date = 2005-03-16
accessdate = 2007-02-16] The report and Härstedt's proposals provoked an angry reaction from Sweden's leading temperance organization, IOGT-NTO and its chairman Sven-Olov Carlsson, who claimed that the only effect of lowering taxes was that people would drink more, and that while preventive measures are important they have never had an effect comparable to high prices. [sv icon cite news
title = Farligt spel, Härstedt
url = http://www.iogt.se/templates/NewsPageSmall____5153.aspx
publisher = IOGT-NTO
date = 2005-03-16
accessdate = 2007-02-16]

References

External links

* [http://www.riksdagen.se/Webbnav/index.aspx?nid=1111&iid=0910241260018 Riksdagen: Kent Härstedt (s)]
* [http://www.socialdemokraterna.se/Templates/Parliament____283.aspx Kent Härstedt - www.socialdemokraterna.se]
* [http://www.kent.harstedt.pp.se/ Kent Härstedt] (personal homepage)

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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Swedish social democratic politician from Skåne County, member of the Riksdag (Parliament) since 1998.
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