Aida Hadzialic, 29, a former Bosnian refugee, leaves post after being caught at the wheel with proscribed level of blood alcohol.
Sweden's
youngest-ever cabinet minister, who came to the country as a refugee from Bosnia, announced her
resignation on Saturday after being caught driving under the influence of
alcohol.
Aida Hadzialic, 29,
minister for secondary and adult education, revealed that she had been stopped
by police in the southern city of Malmo and tests showed she had an alcohol
level of 0.2 grams per liter of blood — just the level considered an offense in
Sweden.
“That was the
biggest mistake of my life… I will take responsibility. I announce my intention to
resign from my ministerial post,” an emotional Hadzialic told a press
conference at government headquarters in Stockholm.
“I understand that a lot of people are disappointed in me. And I am angry with myself, and
certainly I deeply regret it,”
Hadzialic was born in Bosnia
and immigrated to Sweden at the age of five, in 1992, with her parents. They
were Muslim refugees fleeing the war in the Balkans.
She
became involved in the Social Democrats youth
movement in high school and went on to be elected a municipal councilor at age
23.
Then in 2014, at 27, she became the
youngest ever government minister in Sweden’s history.
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