The Green Party, commonly referred to as Miljöpartiet in Swedish, is a political party in Sweden based on green politics.
The Socialist Party, was a political party in Sweden active from 1929 to 1948. Led by Karl Kilbom and Nils Flyg, the party was founded in 1929 as a splinter group of the Communist Party of Sweden. Until 1934, the splinter group used the same name Communist Party of Sweden, so in order to keep the two factions apart, this faction was generally known as Kilbommare ("Kilbomiars") while those who stayed in the old party were known as Sillénare.
Thomas Östros is a Swedish economist and Social Democratic politician who has been serving as vice president of the European Investment Bank (EIB) since 2020. Earlier in his career, he held positions as CEO of the Swedish Bankers' Association and Executive Director for Northern Europe at the International Monetary Fund.
Carl Schlyter is a Swedish politician who has been a member of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2014. He is a member of the Green Party, which is part of the European Greens, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
The Sarajevo List was a political project in Sweden launched ahead of the 1995 European Parliament elections. The group contested the elections, with the intention of "giving a voice to Bosnia" in the European Parliament. The Sarajevo List urged Western countries to intervene in favour of the Bosnian Muslims in the ongoing Bosnian War. The party also supported enlargement of the EU and argued for a more generous refugee policy.
Ali Esbati is an Iranian-Swedish politician of the Left Party, member of the Riksdag and economist, and was the chairman of Young Left from 2001 to 2004. He is also the economic spokesperson for the Left Party since February 2022. He became famous for his blogging; his blog Esbatis kommentarer was at one time one of the most popular Swedish political blogs.
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.
Per Gustav Edvard Fridolin is a Swedish journalist, author, teacher and former politician who served as Minister for Education from 2014 to 2019 and as one of two spokespersons of the Green Party from 2011 to 2019.
Carl Per Gunnar Gahrton was a Swedish politician. He was a member of Parliament, holding a seat for the Liberal Party from 1976 to 1979, and for the Green Party from 1988 to 1991, and again in 1994 to 1995. Later, he was a member of the European Parliament from 1995 to 2004.
Libertas Sweden is a political party in Sweden. It intended to contend the 2009 European Parliament elections under a common banner with Declan Ganley's Libertas.eu.
Isabella Lövin is a Swedish politician for the Green Party. She served as Minister for International Development Cooperation from 2014 to 2019, as Minister for the Environment from 2019 to 2021 and as honorary Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden from 2016 to 2021. She led the Green Party as co-spokesperson from 2016 to 2021, sharing the task with Gustav Fridolin (2014-2019) and Per Bolund (2019-2021).
Universal basic income has been debated in the Nordic countries since the 1970s. It has mostly been seen as a radical and utopian proposal and not taken seriously by the big political parties. However, 1 January 2017 to 1 January 2019 Finland conducted a basic income pilot which got international attention. There are also some political parties and some politicians and journalists in all Nordic countries who are pushing for the idea of a guaranteed income. The Green parties for example, are generally interested in universal basic income, as well as the Pirate parties.
Jan Emanuel is a Swedish healthcare entrepreneur, Social Democratic politician and Member of Parliament (MP) from 2002 to 2006, who also held seats in the Riksdagen as a replacement at different times. He was again MP between March 2009 and October 2010, this time as a replacement for Pär Nuder. He has sat on the Social Committee, Parliamentary Committees as well as the foreign ministry. He is reputed to be the Social Democratic MP who put forward the highest number motions during his time at the Riksdagen. He was MP representing the Norrtälje municipality council between 1998 and 2010.
Young Swedes have been the youth section within the Sweden Democrats since 1 October 2015. National spokesperson since October 2022 is Emil Eneblad. According to Jimmie Åkesson, the party leader of the Sweden Democrats, the wing's main goal is to "attract young people to vote for the party". The section itself says that its main task is to "prepare young people to become future Sweden Democratic politicians." They use Engelbrektsbågen as a symbol and describes itself as democratic and socially conservative with a nationalist outlook.
Annika Lillemets is a Swedish politician and former parliamentarian who was a member of the Riksdag representing the Green Party from 2010 to 2018. In her first term of office from 2010 to 2014 she was an alternate on the tax committee and the traffic committee. In her second term of office, beginning after the general election 2014, she was an alternate in four other committees: the culture committee, the business committee, the social welfare committee and the committee for foreign relations.
Alternative for Sweden is a far-right political party in Sweden. It was founded in March 2018 by Gustav Kasselstrand and William Hahne, along with other members of the Sweden Democratic Youth, who were collectively expelled from the Sweden Democrats in 2015. It advocates the forced remigration of immigrants and Sweden's withdrawal from the European Union.
Ivar Arpi is a Swedish columnist and debater. He has written op-eds for Göteborgs-Posten, Hallandsposten and Svenska Dagbladet. Arpi claims that he supports freedom of speech and that he believes that pluralism of opinion is important for society to develop.
The Industry and Business Party is a Norwegian political party founded at Vemork in Rjukan on 29 February 2020. The party describes itself as a centre-oriented moderate party, with the slogans "Stability and predictability", "Development, not liquidation" and will, among other things, work to prevent a restriction of the oil and gas industry and better framework conditions for business in general. On 1 February 2023, the Health Party formally started the merging process with the Industry and Business Party.
Axel Hallberg is a Swedish politician from the Green Party. He was previously associated with Young Greens. He was Baby of the House from September 2021 to May 2022.
Folklistan is a Swedish election cooperation between individual candidates running in the 2024 European Parliament elections. Folklistan was launched by Jan Emanuel, a former Social Democratic Party MP, and Sara Skyttedal, an MEP previously with the Christian Democrats in April 2024. They are also the group's main candidates for the European Parliament elections 2024.
