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.
Bo Axel Magnus Lundgren is a Swedish politician who served as the leader of the Moderate Party from 1999 to 2003. Lundgren also served as Minister for Sports from 1991 to 1994 and Director-General of the Swedish National Debt Office from 2004 to 2013.
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. Globally,it is a full member of the International Democracy 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.
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.
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.
The Moderate Youth League,officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives,is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. Of the political youth organizations that received financial support from the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society in 2019,it had the highest number of members.
General elections were held in Sweden on 17 September 2006,to elect members to the Riksdag,the Swedish national legislature. All 349 seats were up for election:310 fixed seats in 29 constituencies and 39 adjustment seats,used to ensure that parties have representation in the Riksdag proportional to their share of the national vote. The electoral system used was semi-open list proportional representation using the Sainte-Laguëmethod of allocating seats. Elections for County and Municipal councils were also held on the same day.
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.
The cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt was the cabinet of Sweden from 2006 to 2014. It was a coalition cabinet consisting of the four parties in the centre-right Alliance for Sweden:the Moderate Party,Centre Party,Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats.
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.
The minister affair at the announcement of the Reinfeldt cabinet in Sweden is a political scandal which started on October 7,2006 when the Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt,which had been announced on October 6,immediately became affected by media allegations on past errors on the part of several cabinet ministers,in particular Maria Borelius,Cecilia StegöChilòand Tobias Billström. The affair centred on the use of domestic workers without paying employment (payroll) tax,employer's contribution,unpaid TV licences and other issues. On October 14,2006 Maria Borelius resigned after eight days in office,and on October 16,2006 Cecilia StegöChilòresigned after ten days in office. Criminal charges have been filed against Borelius,Billström and StegöChilò. The affair has also been widely reported by the international press,with the British Financial Times dubbing it "Nannygate".
After a period of rapid growth and unprecedented economic 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.
Karin Märta Elisabeth Enström is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She has served as Secretary-General of the Moderate Party since October 2022 and has been Member of the Riksdag since the 1998 general election,representing Stockholm County. She served as Minister for Defence in the cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt from 2012 to 2014. She is an Amphibious Corps officer by profession.
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.
The 2014 Swedish government crisis started on 3 December 2014 after the Riksdag rejected the proposed government budget in favour of a budget proposed by the centre-right opposition.
Det sovande folket is a book written in 1993 by Fredrik Reinfeldt,later Prime Minister of Sweden,and published by the Moderate Youth League.
