The Sweden Democrats is a nationalist and right-wing populist political party in Sweden founded in 1988. As of 2022,it is the largest member of Sweden's right-wing governing bloc to which it provides confidence and supply,and is the second largest party in the Riksdag.
The Riksdag is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971,the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members,elected proportionally and serving,since 1994,fixed four-year terms. The 2022 Swedish general election is the most recent general election.
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;in 1991,the party 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.
Hans Harald Hoff,,is a Swedish social democratic politician who has been a member of the Riksdag since 1999. He takes up seat number 17 for Halland County's constituency.
Richard Johannes Jomshof,néLohikoski,is a Swedish politician affiliated with the Sweden Democrats (SD) party and former pop musician. He served as Secretary-General of the Sweden Democrats from 2015 to 2022 and has been a Member of the Riksdag since September 2010. In 2022,he was appointed as chairman of the Justice Committee in the Riksdag.
Emma Henriksson is a Swedish politician. She was a member of the Christian Democrats and was a substitute member of the Riksdag from 2006 to 2010,replacing Mats Odell when he served as Minister for Financial Markets. From 2010 to 2018,Henriksson was a member of the Riksdag by her own. She was chairman of the Riksdag's Committee on Social Affairs since 2014.
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.
Markus Wiechel is a Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) of Sweden following the resignation of Lars Isovaara on 29 November 2012. He's currently serving as member for the Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as Deputy for the Committee on European Union Affairs. Wiechel is currently part of three international parliamentary delegations:NATO-PA as a deputy member,the OSCE-PA and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Wiechel is the Chairman of the Swedish PACE-delegation and holds the seat as Vice President of the Assembly.
Sven-Erik Österberg is a Swedish official and former social-democratic politician. He is the former Governor of Stockholm County from 1 February 2018 to 28 February 2023 and previously served as Governor of Norrbotten County from 1 October 2012 to 31 January 2018. Österberg was Minister for Financial Markets from 2004 to 2006.
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.
Kjell Stefan Löfven is a Swedish politician who has served as the President of European Socialists since October 2022. He previously served as Prime Minister of Sweden from October 2014 to November 2021 and leader of the Social Democratic Party from 2012 to 2021.
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.
Hans Kennert Mattias Hedarv Karlsson is a Swedish politician who served as Leader of the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from September 2014 to November 2019. He has been a Member of the Riksdag (SD)since October 2010. He previously served as Leader of the Sweden Democrats from 2014 to 2015. He currently heads the conservative think-tank Oikos. Since 2022,he has also served as the party's international outreach secretary.
Tomas Morgan Johansson is a Swedish politician of the Social Democrats who served as deputy prime minister of Sweden from 2019 to 2022. He served as Minister for Justice from 2014 to 2022 and as minister for home affairs from 2021 to 2022,having previously served in that position from 2017 to 2019. He also served as Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy from 2014 to 2017 and again from 2019 to 2021.
Mats Anders Green is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He has been Member of the Riksdag since the 2014 general election,representing his home constituency Jönköping County. He served as Mayor of Jönköping from 2011 to 2014.
Olof Anders Wedin Jonsson,,is a Swedish politician and member of the Riksdag for the constituency Gävleborg County and the parliamentary leader of the Center Party. He takes up seat number 239 in the Riksdag and has been a member of the War Delegation since October 2014. Jonsson grew up in the village of Kälarne in eastern Jämtland,where he began his involvement in the Centre Party's youth organization,Centre Party Youth (CUF). Since September 2011,he has also been the first deputy chairman of the Center Party and its parliamentary leader in the Riksdag. At the beginning of 2020 he was the substitute leader of the Center Party,substituting for Annie Lööf during her parental leave.
Tobias Joachim Friden Andersson is a Swedish politician. He has been Member of the Riksdag since September 2018,representing the constituency of Västra Götaland County East for the Sweden Democrats party.
Anders Torleif Mattias Bäckström Johansson is a Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats. He has served as Secretary-General of the Sweden Democrats since 2022,having previously served as Deputy Leader of the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from 2019 to 2022. He has been Member of the Riksdag since September 2014,representing Västernorrland County 2014–2018 and Kalmar County from 2018 onwards. He currently takes up seat number 256 in the Riksdag.
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.
