The politics of Sweden take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy. Executive power is exercised by the government,led by the prime minister of Sweden. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament,elected within a multi-party system. The judiciary is independent,appointed by the government and employed until retirement. Sweden is formally a monarchy with a monarch holding symbolic power.
Hans Göran Persson is a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.
The Riksdag is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971,the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members,elected proportionally and serving,since 1994,fixed four-year terms. The 2022 Swedish general election is the most recent general election.
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. Internationally,it is a full member of the International Democrat Union and the European People's Party.
The Christian Democrats is a Christian-democratic political party in Sweden founded in March 1964. It first entered parliament in 1985,through electoral cooperation with the Centre Party,and in 1991 broke through to win seats by itself. The party leader since 25 April 2015 has been Ebba Busch. She succeeded Göran Hägglund,who had been leader since 2004.
The Centre Party is a liberal political party in Sweden,founded in 1913.
John Fredrik Reinfeldt is a Swedish economist,lecturer,and former politician who was 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.
New Democracy was a political party in Sweden. It was founded in 1991 and elected into the Riksdag in the 1991 Swedish general election. It lost all its seats in the Riksdag in the subsequent election in 1994,and its subsequent decline culminated in bankruptcy in February 2000,at which time it retained only one city council post. Local factions of New Democracy reformed into minor parties such as Sjöbopartiet,which faced mixed success.
Maud Elisabeth Olofsson is a former Swedish politician who was the leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 2001 to 2011,Minister for Enterprise and Energy from 2006 to 2011 and Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2010. She was a member of the Riksdag from 2002 to 2011.
Bo Göran Hägglund is a Swedish politician of the Christian Democrats. He was Leader of the Christian Democrats from 2004 to 2015,Member of the Riksdag from 1991 to 2015,and served as Minister for Social Affairs from 2006 to 2014.
General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 1985. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag,winning 159 of the 349 seats. Its leader,Olof Palme,kept his position as Prime Minister. He would retain this position successfully until his assassination in 1986.
Baron Didrik Anders Gillis Bildt was a Swedish parliamentarian,military officer,baron and prime minister 1888–1889.
Ulf Hjalmar Ed Kristersson is a Swedish politician who has been serving as Prime Minister of Sweden since October 2022. He has been the leader of the Moderate Party (M) since October 2017 and a member of the Riksdag (MP) for Södermanland County since 2014 and for Stockholm County from 1991 to 2000. He previously served as Minister for Social Security from 2010 to 2014 and as Chairman of the Moderate Youth League from 1988 to 1992.
After a period of rapid growth and unprecedented prosperity during the late 1980s,by 1990 the Swedish economy overheated,and after a controversial bill freezing salaries and banning strikes failed in the Riksdag,the social democratic government led by Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson resigned in February 1990. At this time the respected Finance Minister Kjell-Olof Feldt left the government in protest over what he saw as irresponsible economic policies. Carlsson soon formed a new government,but by the time of the general election in September 1991 the economy was in free fall,and with rapidly rising unemployment,the social democrats received the smallest share of votes in sixty years (37.7%),resulting in the loss of office to the opposition,a centre-right coalition led by Carl Bildt.
Carl Robert Mikael Oscarsson,in Ödeshög in Östergötland County,is a Swedish politician for the Christian Democratic party. He's been a member for the Swedish Riksdag since 1998,taking up the number 28 seat for Uppsala County constituency.
General elections were held in Sweden on 9 September 2018 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag. Regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The incumbent minority government,consisting of the Social Democrats and the Greens and supported by the Left Party,won 144 seats,one seat more than the four-party Alliance coalition,with the Sweden Democrats winning the remaining 62 seats. The Social Democrats' vote share fell to 28.3 percent,its lowest level of support since 1911.
General elections were held in Sweden on 14 September 2014 to elect all 349 seats in the Riksdag,alongside elections for the 21 county councils,and 290 municipal assemblies.
Kjell Stefan Löfven is a Swedish politician who serves as the President of European Socialists since October 2022. He previously served as Prime Minister of Sweden from October 2014 to November 2021 and leader of the Social Democratic Party from 2012 to 2021.
The first cabinet of Stefan Löfven was the cabinet of Sweden between 2014 and 2018. It was a coalition government,consisting of two parties:the Social Democrats and the Green Party. The cabinet was installed on 3 October 2014,following the 2014 general election. It lost a vote of no confidence following the 2018 election,but remained in office as a caretaker government. Löfven was reelected as Prime Minister in January 2019,thus forming the second cabinet of Stefan Löfven.
The 2014 Swedish government crisis started on 3 December 2014 after the Riksdag rejected the proposed government budget in favour of a budget proposed by the centre-right opposition.
