Ordförande Persson

Göran Persson tillträder som statsminister 1996 och bildar sin första regering. Han installerar sig på Harpsund och går på sin första kungamiddag. Kampen mot Carl Bildt blir hård, och Persson är nära att förlora makten i valet 1998. Med stora ögon sitter han i utkanten på EU:s toppmöten och på hemmaplan skakas han av Erik Åsbrinks plötsliga avhopp som finansminister 1999.

Details Persson's time as president of the European Union in 2001, visits to North Korea and Israel. Persson also addresses accusations of extramarital affairs and provides his views on the leaders of some of the rivalling political parties in Sweden.

Details the murder of Anna Lindh, Persson's Minister for Foreign Affairs who was widely speculated to be his successor. Persson's differences with fellow Minister Leif Pagrotsky over whether Sweden should adopt the euro, the 2002 election and Persson's marriage to Annika Persson, which ended in divorce in 2003, are also discussed.

Persson is getting frustrated and annoyed over political backstabbing and media lynchings. He finds a farm in Sörmland where he starts to construct the house of his dreams but starts to fear for his own safety after all the media attention. Persson tries, in vain, to persuade Margot Wallström to return to Sweden and to take over his chairmanship of the Social Democrats. In spite of doubts, he retains leadership of the party and gets an epiphany of electoral victory. The epiphany turns out to be incorrect as Persson is defeated in the 2006 election followed by his resignation.