query: member_of_political_party lena sommestad
supports: Lena Sommestad ( born 3 April 1957 in Börje , Uppsala Municipality ) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician and economic historian . She was Minister for the Environment in the Ministry of Sustainable Development in the Cabinet of Göran Persson from 2002 - 2006 . Sommestad studied social sciences at Uppsala University and received a PhD degree in 1992 . From 1998 to 2002 she was the managing director of the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies ( Institutet för framtidsstudier ) . She had not held a politically elected office before Prime Minister Göran Persson made her Minister for the Environment in 2002 . The Swedish Social Democratic Party, (SAP; literally, "Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden"), contesting elections as the "ArbetarepartietSocialdemokraterna" ('The Workers' Party  The Social Democrats'), usually referred to just as the 'Social Democrats' ("Socialdemokraterna"); is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The current party leader since 2012 is Stefan Löfven; he has also been Prime Minister of Sweden since 2014. Hans Göran Persson (born 20 January 1949) served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007. Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: ), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low population density of , with the highest concentration in the southern half of the country. Approximately 85% of the population lives in urban areas.
candidates: democrats social democratic workers ' party swedish social democratic party union workers ' party
answer: swedish social democratic party