Sveriges Television AB,shortened to SVT,is the Swedish national public state-controlled television broadcaster,funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag. Prior to 2019,SVT was funded by a television licence fee payable by all owners of television sets. The Swedish public broadcasting system is largely modelled after the system used in the United Kingdom,and Sveriges Television shares many traits with its British counterpart,the BBC.
Ulf Hjalmar Ed Kristersson is a Swedish politician who has served 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.
Fadime Şahindal was a Kurdish immigrant who moved to Sweden from Turkey at the age of seven. She was murdered by her father,Rahmi,in January 2002 in an honour killing.
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.
Kurds in Sweden may refer to people born in or residing in the Sweden of Kurdish origin.
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.
Eva Magdalena Andersson is a Swedish politician and economist who has served as Leader of the Opposition since October 2022 and Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party since 2021. She has served as a Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014. She previously served as Prime Minister of Sweden from November 2021 to October 2022,Minister for Finance from 2014 to 2021 and Chair of the International Monetary and Financial Committee from 2020 to 2022.
Paula Bieler is a Swedish former politician for the Sweden Democrats party. She became a member of the party in 2009. In November 2013 Bieler became an elected member of Sweden Democrats party council. In the 2014 Swedish general election,Bieler was the party's number six national candidate for the Riksdag,and was elected a member of the Riksdag. Since April 2014 Bieler has also been the party's official political spokesman on gender and gay rights. On 11 February 2020,Bieler revealed that she was leaving the Riksdag in an interview with the Swedish tabloid Expressen. Shortly afterwards the podcast Lögnarnas Tempel revealed that she has also left the Sweden Democrats.
Pela Atroshi was a 19-year-old Iraqi Kurd from Farsta,Sweden. She was murdered in an honor killing by family members after being taken from Sweden to Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan. She was deemed to have brought shame on the family by moving out of the family home and trying to achieve some independence.
General elections were held in Sweden on 11 September 2022 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag who in turn elected the Prime Minister of Sweden. Under the constitution,regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The preliminary results presented on 15 September showed the government parties lost their majority,which were confirmed by the final results published on 17 September. After a month of negotiations following the elections that led to the TidöAgreement among the right-wing bloc,Moderate Party (M) leader Ulf Kristersson was elected Prime Minister of 17 October. The Kristersson Cabinet is a minority government that relies on confidence and supply from the Sweden Democrats (SD)
The second cabinet of Stefan Löfven was the Government of Sweden from 21 January 2019 to 9 July 2021. It was a coalition,consisting of two parties:the Social Democrats and the Green Party. The cabinet was installed on 21 January 2019,following the 2018 general election.
Sara Mohammad is an Iraqi Kurdish-born Swedish human rights activist and pharmacist. She claimed asylum in Sweden as a quota refugee in 1993 after fleeing from her child marriage a day before the wedding. Her brother had threatened to shoot her,holding a Kalashnikov rifle to her head. After Fadime Şahindal was murdered in Uppsala in 2002,Mohammad founded Gapf,an organization which campaigns against honour killing.
Mats Olov Löfving is a Swedish police officer,Deputy Director of the Swedish Police Authority. He has served as Chief of Police of both Östergötland and Västra Götaland,and has been appointed as the next regional chief of police for Stockholm County and Gotland.
Bengt Eliasson is a Swedish politician and member of the Riksdag for the Liberals. He joined the Riksdag after the 2014 general elections,he is currently taking up seat number 41 in the Riksdag for the constituency of Halland County.
Eva Lindh is a Swedish politician. As of 24 September 2018,she serves as Member of the Riksdag representing the constituency of Östergötland County.
Linda Westerlund Snecker is a Swedish politician. Since September 2014,she serves as Member of the Riksdag representing the constituency of Östergötland County. She is affiliated with the Left Party.
Ola Thoralf Alfsson is a Swedish blogger and former politician of the Sweden Democrats party who served as a member of the Riksdag.
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven tendered his resignation on 10 November 2021,leaving his government in place as a caretaker cabinet until a new Prime Minister is elected by the Riksdag. Government formation talks commenced the following day with Magdalena Andersson,the newly-elected head of the Social Democratic party offering to lead a government. She was formally nominated to form a government by the Speaker of the Riksdag,Andreas Norlén later the same day. It was the third government formation process since the 2018 general election,the first taking a record 144 days before the formation of Löfven's second cabinet. The process took place just ten months ahead of the 2022 general election.
Honor-related violence in Sweden first received public attention in Sweden due to the honor killings of Sara Abed Ali in 1996,Pela Atroshi in 1999 and Fadime Sahindal in 2002. Honor related violence includes forced marriage,female genital mutilation,and other forms of coercion. According to the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society in 2009,about 70 thousand women and men reported pressure to marry against their will. In 2019,the Swedish Police Authority started to specifically track honor-related crimes,and by November 2021,4500 suspected honor-related crimes had been reported.
Mats Persson is a Swedish politician for the Liberal party. Since 18 October 2022,he is the Minister for Education in the Ulf Kristersson Cabinet.
