Nils Daniel Carl Bildt is a Swedish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He led the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999,appearing at its lead candidate in four general elections,before his appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt from 2006 to 2014. Bildt first entered the Riksdag in 1979,holding a seat until 2001. A member of the Bildt family,he is a great-great grandson of Baron Gillis Bildt,who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1888 to 1889.
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.
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.
General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 2002,alongside municipal and county council elections. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag,winning 144 of the 349 seats.
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 the 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.
Bo Gösta Bohman was a Swedish politician and the leader of the Swedish liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1970 to 1981,during a period in which the party strengthened its position in Swedish politics. He served as minister of economics during the three-party centre-right Swedish governments 1976–1978 and 1979–1981. He has since become a model for many Moderate politicians,especially in the Moderate Youth League.
Ulf Hjalmar Kristersson is a Swedish politician who has been serving as Prime Minister of Sweden since 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.
Sven Otto Julius Littorin is a Swedish former politician and architect of major structural reforms. As Minister for Employment in the cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt,he was in charge of the major overhaul of Swedish labor policies between 2006-2010. As President of the European Council of Ministers,in its Epsco formation,he oversaw the European Union response to labor market effects during the financial crisis of 2008-09. As party secretary of the Moderate Party 2002-2006,he played a major role in restructuring the party. As chief of staff to Minister for Fiscal and Financial Affairs during the Swedish banking crisis of 1992,he was one of the architects behind the Swedish banking rescue that Paul Krugman later proposed as a model for solving the Financial crisis of 2007–2008.
Filippa Désirée Amanda Cay Reinfeldt is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She served as Health Service Commissioner of Stockholm County from 2006 to 2014,with responsible for health care,social affairs and hospitals. She was previously mayor of Täby Municipality from 2005 to 2006. In July 2019,she was appointed the Moderate Partys spokesperson on LGBT-issues.
General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 2010 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag. The main contenders of the election were the governing centre-right coalition the Alliance,consisting of the Moderate Party,the Centre Party,the Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats;and the opposition centre-left coalition the Red-Greens,consisting of the Social Democrats,the Left Party and the Green Party.
Anders Erik Borg is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for Finance in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2014. He is a member of the Swedish Moderate Party.
Tobias Lennart Billström is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Ulf Kristersson since 18 October 2022 and has been Member of the Riksdag since the 2002 general election,representing MalmöMunicipality (2002–2022) and Stockholm County.
Göran Persson served as Prime Minister of Sweden between 22 March 1996 and 6 October 2006. Persson took over after Ingvar Carlsson,who retired as party leader and Prime Minister. Following the 2006 general election,he and the Persson Cabinet lost power to a centre-right coalition government.
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.
Anna Maria Kinberg Batra is a Swedish politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Moderate Party from January 2015 to October 2017. She was a Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm County from September 2006 to September 2018. She served as parliamentary leader from October 2010 to January 2015.
Karin Elisabeth Svantesson is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She has served as Minister for Finance in the cabinet of Ulf Kristersson since October 2022 and has served as first deputy leader of the party since 2019.
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.
Det sovande folket is a book written in 1993 by Fredrik Reinfeldt,later Prime Minister of Sweden,and published by the Moderate Youth League.
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