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 Liberals,known as the Liberal People's Party until 22 November 2015,is a conservative liberal political party in Sweden. The Liberals ideologically have shown a broad variety of liberal tendencies. Currently they are seen as following classical liberalism and economic liberalism. The party is a member of the Liberal International and Renew Europe.
The Green Party is a political party in Sweden based on green politics.
Ulf Adelsohn is a Swedish politician,leader of the Moderate Party from 1981 to 1986 and Governor of Stockholm County from 1992 to 2001. He was a member of the Riksdag from 1982 to 1988 and served as Chairman of the Board of SJ AB 2001–2011,from where he resigned due to quarrels with the Reinfeldt cabinet on its railway deregulation policies.
Nils Olof Thorbjörn Fälldin was a Swedish politician. He was Prime Minister of Sweden in three non-consecutive cabinets from 1976 to 1982,and leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 1971 to 1985. On his first appointment in 1976,he was the first non-Social Democrat Prime Minister for 40 years and the first since the 1930s not to have worked as a professional politician since his teens. He was also the last Prime Minister to not be from the Social Democrats or Moderate Party.
Lars Sponheim is a Norwegian politician. He was leader of the Liberal Party from 1996 to 2010. He was a member of the Storting from 1993 to 2009,and a government minister from 1997 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2005. He served as County Governor of Vestland from 2010 to 2022,having served as the County Governor of Hordaland from 2010 until the office was merged with that of neighboring Sogn og Fjordane in 2019.
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.
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.
Lars Erik Ansgar Leijonborg is a Swedish politician,Minister for Higher Education and Research 2006-2009 and Head of the Ministry of Education and Research 2006–2007. During a ten-year period from 1997 to 2007,he served as chairman of the Liberal People's Party.
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 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.
Lars Thomas Idergard was a Swedish businessman and political commentator connected with the Moderate Party. Now he is a Jesuit and a Catholic Priest.
Per Jimmie Åkesson is a Swedish politician and author,serving as leader of the Sweden Democrats since 2005. He has been a member of the Riksdag (SD) for Jönköping County since 2010. He previously served as leader of the Sweden Democratic Youth from 2000 until 2005.
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.
Lars Lindblad is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He was a member of the Riksdag from 1998 to 2010,and held the position as leader of the parliament group from 2006 to 2010.
Lars Elinderson,born in 1949,is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He was a member of the Riksdag (Parliament) in 1998–2002,and 2006–2014. He also served as a replacement member of the Riksdag in 2004. Before serving in the Parliament,Elinderson was a County Council Commissioner in Skaraborg County Council 1982-1991 and the Mayor of Falköping municipality from 1991 to 1998. Elinderson is an economist by profession,and holds master's degrees in Finance and Economic history.
Lars Olof Hjälmered,born 22 February 1977,is a Swedish politician for the Moderate Party. He has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006. He is currently taking up seat number 128 for the constituency of Gothenburg Municipality. He is as of May 2019 Speaker of the Committee for Industry and Trade,he was vice-Speaker for the same committee from 2014 until 2018. He has also been vice-Speaker for the Committee Transport and Communication from October 2014 until December 2014.
Hans Martin Staffan Burenstam Linder was a Swedish economist and conservative politician,who was Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1976 to 1978 and from 1979 to 1981. He was the president of the Stockholm School of Economics between 1986 and 1995.
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.
Lars Erik Taxell,was a Finnish legal scholar and politician. He was the leader of the Swedish People's Party of Finland in 1956–1966. He was also the Rector of the Åbo Akademi University in Turku,Finland,in the 1950s and its chancellor in the 1980s.
