Sweden’s youngest ever government minister, Aida Hadzialic, has resigned after being caught driving over the alcoholic limit.
Hadzialic, 29, is minister for higher education in the centre-left government and Sweden’s first Muslim minister.
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.
She faces a possible term of up to six months in prison after police detected a blood-alcohol level of 0.2 pro mille.
Explaining her error, she said she had drunk one glass of sparkling wine and one of red after a night out in Copenhagen. She set off for Sweden’s southern city of Malmo four hours later.
![Oresund Bridge, linking Denmark and Sweden](http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/1515F/production/_90776368_mediaitem90776367.jpg)
Hadzialic said she thought that would have been enough time for her body to get rid of the alcohol.
Explaining her decision to quit, the Social Democrat told reporters: “I choose to do this because I believe what I have done is that serious.”
Sweden is one of several European countries which have low alcohol limits for drivers.
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Source: BBC