Gerd Gudrun Maria Schyman is a Swedish politician. She served as leader of the Swedish Left Party from 1993 until January 2003. She remained a member of the Left Party until 2004,when she left to focus entirely on her feminist political work after a tax evasion scandal. She remained an independent member of the Riksdag until 2006. She co-founded Feminist Initiative in 2005 and was its co-spokesperson from 2005 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2019. She left the party in 2022.
Maria Robsahm is a Swedish politician who was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009. She was elected as a member of the Liberal People's Party,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. However,she defected to Feminist Initiative on 1 March 2006.
Feminist Initiative is a radical feminist political party in Sweden. The party was formed in 2005 from a pressure group of the same name,and has since taken part in every election to the Riksdag and the European Parliament. The party won its first elected representative in 2014,with Soraya Post taking one seat in the European Parliament.
The Red-Greens is an umbrella term which refers to the three centre-left to left-wing political parties of Sweden;the Social Democrats,the Left Party and the Green Party.
The Left Party is a socialist political party in Sweden. On economic issues,the party opposes privatizations and advocates increased public expenditure. In foreign policy,the party is Eurosceptic,being critical of the European Union,and opposing NATO and Swedish entry into the eurozone. It attempted to get Sweden to join the Non-Aligned Movement in 1980,but did not succeed. The party is eco-socialist,and also supports anti-racism,feminism,and republicanism. It stands on the left-wing of the political spectrum.
Sissela Nordling Blanco is a Swedish politician,who served as spokesperson of the Feminist Initiative party from March 2011 to 2016,serving together with Carl Emanuelsson,Stina Svensson,and Gudrun Schyman.
Stina Svensson is a Swedish politician,who served as spokesperson of the Feminist Initiative party from March 2011 to 2015,serving together with Gudrun Schyman and then Sissela Nordling Blanco.
Ebba-Elisabeth Busch is a Swedish politician serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden and Minister for Energy,Business and Industry since October 2022. She has served as Leader of the Christian Democrats since April 2015.
Annelie Nordström,also Nordström Eriksson,is a Swedish politician who acted as general secretary of the Swedish Municipal Workers' Union from 2010 to 2016. She started her career as a child caretaker in Halmstad and was a trade union activist locally within the Municipal Workers Union between 1974 and 1980,and an ombudsman in Stockholm for some time in 1981. She moved to Vilhelmina,where she became personnel manager in Vilhelmina municipality between 1988 and 1998. She became active in the Social Democratic Party –first as a county politician between 1991 and 1998,then as councilor in Vilhelmina municipality between 1998 and 2000.
Victoria Kawesa,is a Swedish politician and former party leader of the Leader of Feminist Initiative. In March 2017,she was elected the leader of the party,along with Gudrun Schyman. Kawesa was the first black party leader in Swedish history. In September 2017,she resigned,citing personal reasons. Kawesa was charged and found guilty of copyright violation. She is a former lecturer at Södertörn University.
Gita Nabavi is a Swedish politician. On 24 February 2018 she was elected leader of the Feminist Initiative,along with its founder Gudrun Schyman. In February 2020,Nabavi resigned from her post,stating that she wanted to spend more time with her children.
Alternative for Sweden is a far-right political party in Sweden. It was founded in March 2018 by Gustav Kasselstrand and William Hahne,along with other members of the Sweden Democratic Youth,who were collectively expelled from the Sweden Democrats in 2015. It advocates the forced repatriation of one million immigrants and Sweden's withdrawal from the European Union.
Mehrnoosh "Nooshi" Dadgostar is a Swedish politician,a member of the Riksdag since 2014,deputy chair of the Left Party from 2018 to 2020,and the chair since 2020.
Esther Katarina Stensson is a Swedish politician and leader of the Swedish Pirate Party with a term from 2019–2021 Stensson took a masters exam in engineering physics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2014 and a degree in licentiate in physics in 2018. Stensson is the Vice-President of the company "Checheza AB",a company focused on online classes. In 2020 she took the teacher's exam to work as a teacher in physics and mathematics.
Annette Bergbo is a journalist,politician and spokesperson for the party Sustainable Initiative of Åland. She has served as a member of the Lagting since December 2019.
Svenska Sällskapet för Nykterhet och Folkbildning,previously Svenska nykterhetssällskapet until 1902 and Svenska Sällskapet för Nykterhet och Folkuppfostran until 2021,is an organization that promotes temperance and ethical education based on Christian principles. During the 1840s and 1850s,the organization was the center of the temperance movement in Sweden and had up to 100,000 members.
The Climate Alliance is a Swedish political party with a focus on climate issues that describes itself as a non-ideological,party- and bloc-crossing influence organization,neither of the right nor left. The party's electoral platform has been described by classical liberal business think tank Timbro and newspaper Norran editorial board as left-wing.
Muharrem Demirok is a Swedish politician who has been the leader of the Centre Party since 2 February 2023. Additionally,Demirok has been a member of Riksdag since September 2022.
