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Drink-driving Sweden minister rues 'biggest mistake'

Sweden's youngest ever government minister, Aida Hadzialic, has resigned after being caught driving over the alcoholic limit.

Drink-driving Sweden minister rues 'biggest mistake'

Source: bbcarabic

Hadzialic, 29, is minister for higher education and one of Sweden's first Muslim ministers.

She called the drink-driving incident "the greatest mistake of my life".

Hadzialic, who arrived in Sweden aged five from Bosnia-Hercegovina, drank two glasses of wine before being stopped on the bridge linking Denmark and Sweden.


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By Heba Kassoua



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