The Moderate Party, commonly referred to as the Moderates, is a liberal-conservative political party in Sweden. The party generally supports tax cuts, the free market, civil liberties and economic liberalism. Globally, it is a full member of the International Democracy Union and the European People's Party.
Dagens Nyheter, abbreviated DN, is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It is published in Stockholm and aspires to full national and international coverage, and is widely considered Sweden's newspaper of record.
John Fredrik Reinfeldt is a Swedish economist, lecturer, former Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and chairman of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015. He was the last rotating President of the European Council in 2009. He is chairman of the Swedish Football Association since 25 March 2023.
Lars-Magnus Harald Christoffer Ohly is a Swedish politician, and the former party chairman of the Swedish Left Party. He was a member of the Swedish parliament from 1998 to 2014.
Expressen is one of two nationwide evening newspapers in Sweden. Describing itself as independent liberal, Expressen was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and its slogans are "it stings" or "Expressen to your rescue".
Leif Pagrotsky is a Swedish politician, economist, and diplomat. He served as Minister of Culture from 2004 to 2006 and Minister for Business and Industry from 2002 to 2004 under Prime Minister Göran Persson. After this, he held the position of Consul General of Sweden in New York City from 2016 to 2018.
Per Axel Ahlmark was a Swedish politician and writer. He was the leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1975 to 1978, and Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister in the Swedish government from 1976 to 1978. He also served as a member of the Swedish parliament from 1967 to 1978.
Carl Anders Peter Hultqvist is a Swedish politician of the Social Democrats who served as the Minister for Defence in the Swedish Government from 2014 to 2022.
Niklas Åke Wykman is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He has served as Minister for Financial Markets in the cabinet of Ulf Kristersson since October 2022 and has been Member of the Riksdag since the 2014 general election, representing Stockholm County. He was chairman of the Moderate Youth League, the youth wing of the Moderate Party, from 2006 to 2010.
Nils Hans Ingemar Bergström is a Swedish-American journalist and political scientist.
Anna-Karin Hatt is a Swedish corporate leader and former politician. Since 2015, she is the CEO of Almega, the employers’ organisation for the Swedish service sector. She is also a member of the board at Alecta, Ratio Institute and the publicly held real estate company Castellum. She served as Minister for IT and Energy from 2011 to 2014, having previously served as Minister for IT and Regional Affairs from 2010 to 2011. She also served as the party's state secretary in the central coordination office of the Government of Sweden from 2006 to 2010.
Ardalan Shekarabi is a Swedish social democratic politician. He was chairman for his party's youth league SSU 2003–2005. He was minister for social security from 2019 to 2022, and had previously served as minister for public administration from 2014 to 2019. From January to October 2019 he was also minister for consumer affairs.
Cecilia Schelin Seidegård, is a Swedish biochemist who served as Governor of Gotland County from 2010 to 2018.
Linda Nordlund is a Swedish politician who was chairperson of the Liberal Youth of Sweden from 2012 to 2015. She succeeded Adam Cwejman as chairperson after the 2012 Liberal Youth of Sweden congress in Uppsala. Before she was elected chairperson she was the vice chairperson of the organisation for several years.
Annica Dahlström is a Swedish physician and Professor Emerita of Histology and Neuroscience at the Department of Medical Chemistry and Cell Biology at Gothenburg University.
Bengt Robert Mathiasson, born 26 February 1979 in Lund, is a Swedish politician who served as chairman of Sweden's Communist Party from 2014 until 2019. He succeeded Anders Carlsson at the 17th party congress in Gothenburg, held in 2014. He has worked as a removal man in Stockholm and as an industrial worker at a Volvo factory in Gothenburg. Mathiasson was previously chairman of Revolutionary Communist Youth between 2002 and 2004. In December 2019, Mathiasson left the Communist Party and, since 2020, he has been a columnist for a right-wing political online newspaper.
Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Swedish author, freelance journalist and debater. Her works have sparked debate in subjects regarding capitalism, prostitution and surrogacy, taking a left-wing and feminist perspective. Her writing and debate on gender, transgender issues and feminism have sparked controversy and accusations of being trans-exclusionary.
Sara Magdalena Skyttedal is a Swedish politician previously of the Christian Democrats party. She was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden.
Romina Pourmokhtari is a Swedish politician for the Liberals. She has served as the Minister for the Environment since 2022 in the Kristersson Cabinet. She has also been a member of the Riksdag for Stockholm Municipality since 2022. She is the youngest-ever minister of a cabinet in Sweden, having ascended to her position at the age of 26.
Events in the year 2023 in Sweden.
