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Björn von Sydow (born November 26, 1945) is the current speaker (talman) of the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament. He has held this office since the 2002 election, succeeding Birgitta Dahl , and it will last until the 2006 election . A member of the Social Democratic Party, he had been Minister of Defence in Göran Persson's government between 1997 and 2002, preceded by a short term as Minister of Trade.Apart from leading the Riksdag debates, von Sydow would have a key role in the case of the government resigning, which is generally seen as unlikely. He would also serve as head of state in the absence of the King and his three children, e.g. if they all went on a journey abroad.
Despite his name, von Sydow is not technically a member of the Swedish nobility, having taken his mother's surname. He is however a distant relative of the famous actor Max von SydowMax von Sydow (born April 10, 1929 in Lund, Sweden) is a Swedish theatrical, television and film actor. It was through his association with director Ingmar Bergman, with whom he made about a dozen films, that von Sydow earned his international reputation,. Björn von Sydow lives in SolnaSolna (population 57,994, 2004) is a Municipality in Stockholm County, in central Sweden, located north of Stockholm's city centre. The mostly industrial town features three royal palaces, and Rasunda Stadium, home of football club AIK, which is also in u outside StockholmStockholm ['stɔkhɔlm, ˘stɔkhɔlm] is the capital and the largest City of Sweden. The City of Stockholm is administratively a municipality within Stockholm County, the population of the city proper is 761,721 (2004), with, is married and has four children.
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