Gösta Ingvar Carlsson is a Swedish politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Sweden,first from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1986 to 1996. He is best known for leading Sweden into the European Union.
The Swedish Social Democratic Party,formally the SwedishSocial Democratic Workers' Party,usually referred to as The Social Democrats,is a social-democratic political party in Sweden. Founded in 1889,the SAP is the country's oldest and currently largest party.
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 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.
The Green Party is a political party in Sweden based on green politics.
The Alliance,formerly the Alliance for Sweden,was a centre-right liberal-conservative political alliance in Sweden. The Alliance consisted of the four centre-right political parties in the Riksdag. The Alliance was formed while in opposition,and later achieved a majority government in the 2006 general election and a minority government in the 2010 general election,governing Sweden from 2006 to 2014 with Fredrik Reinfeldt of the Moderate Party serving as Prime Minister of Sweden until 2014. The Alliance was co-chaired by every component party's individual leaders.
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.
Annie Marie Therése Lööf is a Swedish politician and lawyer. She has been a Member of the Riksdag,representing her home constituency of Jönköping County,since 2006,and leader of the Centre Party since 2011. Lööf served as Minister for Enterprise from 2011 to 2014,in the Reinfeldt Cabinet.
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.
Anna-Karin Hatt is a Swedish corporate leader and former politician. Since 2015,she is the CEO of Almega,the employers’organisation for the Swedish service sector. She is also a member of the board at Alecta,Ratio Institute and the publicly held real estate company Castellum. She served as Minister for IT and Energy from 2011 to 2014,having previously served as Minister for IT and Regional Affairs from 2010 to 2011. She also served as the party's state secretary in the central coordination office of the Government of Sweden from 2006 to 2010.
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.
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.
Events from the year 2001 in Sweden
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.
Amanda Sofia Margareta Lind is a politician for the Swedish Green Party. From 2019 to 2021,she was the Minister for Culture and Democracy,with responsibility for sport and national minorities in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.
Linda Modig,née Ylivainio,is a Swedish Centre Party politician. In the 2018 parliamentary election,she was elected Member of Parliament for Norrbotten County constituency.
The Swedish Centre Party's party leader election will be held at an extraordinary party meeting on 2 February 2023 in Helsingborg. The Centre Party will then nominate a successor to outgoing party leader Annie Lööf.
