Boriana Åberg

Boriana Åberg (born 1968) is a Bulgarian-born Swedish politician who has been a member of the Riksdag since 2008 as part of the Skåne County South constituency. She studied to be a civil engineer in Bulgaria, and moved to Sweden after the end of the Cold War. After marrying and having two children, she and her husband divorced after ten years of marriage. Åberg found her Bulgarian education to be useless in Sweden, and as a result returned to school, graduating from Lund University with a degree in sociology and working as a social secretary.[1]

Boriana Åberg
Member of the Swedish Riksdag
Assumed office
6 October 2006
Personal details
Born1968
Bulgaria
Political partyModerate Party
OccupationPolitician

Åberg joined the Moderate Party in 1998 after taking a liking to Carl Bildt's viewpoints and charisma.[1] She became a member of Kävlinge's city council, and was appointed chairperson of the council in 2007. She ran for a seat on the Riksdag in 2006, and finished sixth out of 17 candidates; five Moderate candidates ended up on the Riksdag.[2]

In 2008 and 2009, she served as a substitute member for a period of two months; she ran again in 2010, this time winning a seat on the Riksdag, and was re-elected in 2014.[3] Currently, Åberg serves as part of the Swedish delegation for the Council of Europe, and is a member of the Traffic Committee and the Labor Market Committee.[4]

References
  1. "Boriana Åberg har riksdagen i sikte" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan. 14 September 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. "Valsedlar 2006" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. 2006. Archived from the original on 13 April 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  3. Persson, Stefan (3 October 2010). "Boriana Åberg redo axla uppdraget" (in Swedish). Skånska Dagbladet. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  4. "Boriana Åberg (M)". Riksdag. 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
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