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38-640: The party also ran in the Swedish 2006 parliamentary election , but it only received 0.47% of the votes, far below the 4% needed to get into parliament. The party was formed in 2003 in the wake of the Swedish euro referendum held in September, in which the adoption of the euro was rejected. The party was founded by Nils Lundgren , former member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and chief economist of

76-510: A majority government , to continue as a minority or to govern in a red-green coalition government . His party had been in power since the 1994 election , and Persson had been prime minister since 1996. The Social Democrats before the election had an agreement with the Left Party and the Green Party that gave them an influence on government policy in exchange for their support. However, both

114-515: A contract would increase their willingness to hire young people "to a great extent" and that 51% believe that it would increase it "to a certain extent". 7% of those surveyed said that they did not think that they would be more willing to hire. On 4 September 2006, only two weeks before the general election, the Social Democratic Party reported to the police a computer break-in into its internal network. It has been reported that members of

152-555: A job or are studying". If those who are "wholly or partially outside the labour market" are included then the figure rises to 1,700,000. This gloomy view of the unemployment situation was raised by Jan Edling, a former economist for the Swedish Trade Union Confederation ( LO ). However, compared with other OECD countries Sweden has a low "broad unemployment", as was pointed out by the Green Party's Peter Eriksson in

190-1245: A joint election manifesto (although c, fp, and kd still had individual manifestos). Their candidate for Prime Minister was the Moderate Party leader, Fredrik Reinfeldt . Birgitta Swedenborg Look for Birgitta Swedenborg on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Birgitta Swedenborg in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

228-460: A significant decline in its support at the 2009 European Parliament election and lost all of its seats in the European parliament. The party had hoped that Wibe would attract Eurosceptic voters. After the election, the party elected Wibe and Birgitta Swedenborg  [ sv ] as co-leaders. Wibe died on 29 December 2010 after a short illnes, leaving Swedenborg as sole party leader. The party

266-619: Is a eurosceptic party named after the timing of the Danish referendum that rejected the Treaty of Maastricht . The June Movement was also a major source of inspiration for the June List. The party succeeded in capturing 14% of the votes in the 2004 European Parliament election , thereby gaining three of the 19 Swedish seats. The three MEPs were Nils Lundgren, former social democrat Hélène Goudin and former Christian democrat Lars Wohlin . The June List

304-647: The 2002 election . Behind this increase lay a great success for the Sweden Democrats , gaining 2.9% (+1.5 percentage points) and thus surpassing the limit (2.5%) for gaining governmental financial support for the next four years. Two new parties, Feminist Initiative (0.7%) and the Pirate Party (0.6%), also contributed to the increase. Of the 349 elected Riksdag members, 164 (or 47%) were women. The minority government of Göran Persson 's Social Democratic Party attempted, and failed, to gain enough seats to form

342-609: 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-Laguë method of allocating seats. Elections for County and Municipal councils were also held on

380-558: The Social Democratic Party . The four centre-right parties of Alliance for Sweden formed, as expected, a government with Fredrik Reinfeldt as Prime Minister. The Speaker had asked Reinfeldt to begin this formation on 19 September but, as is usual, requested the Cabinet of Göran Persson to stay on as a caretaker government until the Riksdag formally elected a new prime minister. The newly elected Riksdag convened on 2 October and

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456-552: The Left Party and the Green Party insisted that any red-green government formed after the election would need to include them in a coalition. The four centre-right parties – The Moderate Party (m), The Liberal People's Party (fp), The Christian Democrats (kd), and The Centre Party (c) – united in Alliance for Sweden succeeded in gaining enough seats to form a coalition government . The four parties (formerly in opposition) had presented

494-575: The Liberal People's Party copied secret information, not yet officially released, on at least two occasions for the purpose of counter-attacking Social Democratic political propositions. On 5 September the Liberal Party Secretary Johan Jakobsson  [ sv ] voluntarily resigned. Leading members of the party and its youth organization are under police investigation suspected for criminal activity. The charts below show

532-560: The Social Democratic Party, the major left-wing party, and all right-wing parties with exception of the Center party were positive towards European integration. Aiming at receiving support from this broad political spectrum, the board of the party contained people that had been previously active in both left- and right-wing parties. The party takes its name from the June Movement in Denmark , which

570-592: The Swedish Social Democratic Party, and Annika Eriksson, long-time member of the party's governing board. Eriksson resigned after five months in January 2009 because of disagreements with Wibe and the party governing board. Swedish businessman Sven Hagströmer , one of the two men who gave his name to the Hagströmer & Qviberg group of companies, served on the board of the party. The June List suffered

608-475: The bank Nordea , Lars Wohlin , former member of the Christian Democrats and Jesper Katz. Lundgren hoped to receive support from eurosceptical voters dissatisfied with their usual parties' positive attitudes towards the euro and further European integration. Among the Swedish parties represented in parliament at the time, only the Left Party , Center Party and the Green Party were eurosceptic, while

646-556: The costs are too great. By lowering the threshold for job creation we are convinced that many youths will be able to take their first steps onto a labour market that they today have never been able to set foot on. We are equally convinced that the great majority of these youths will show their employers that they were right to dare to employ them". A survey carried out by the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise ( Svenskt Näringsliv ) indicates that 41% of Swedish companies believe that such

684-411: The crucial populous municipalities Gothenburg , Linköping , Uppsala and Västerås . The Social Democrats recorded around 35% of the overall support, which was the party's worst showing in the post-war era. Although the red-green parties received a higher proportion of the vote than in the 1991 hung parliament loss, the coalition fell short of a majority by seven seats, or two percentage points of

722-430: The debate. Alliance for Sweden proposed to address the problem by cutting income tax for the lowest paid (by increasing the tax-free allowance), cutting the payroll tax (and abolishing it for parts of the service sector ), and making wages paid for household work tax-deductible . Critics of the proposed tax cuts said that, because they are funded by reducing unemployment benefit and sick pay , they would attack

760-630: The employer, but it was criticised by the red-green parties as reducing job security for the young. A similar contract introduced by the French government (the Contrat première embauche ) caused angry demonstrations and riots in France . In a debate article in Göteborgs-Posten on 21 March 2006 Wanja Lundby-Wedin , Chairperson of LO , wrote: "[Maud Olofsson's] new proposal to abolish job security for

798-589: The gap between the two blocs (s, v, and mp are assumed to work together) began to close rapidly in January 2006, and the red-green parties took the lead in May 2006; indeed they were ahead of the Alliance in every poll conducted in May and June. However, there was a late shift in opinion back to the Alliance during the summer: in mid-August all polls showed the Alliance leading the red-green parties comfortably. The Social Democrat government's perceived failure to reduce unemployment

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836-518: The government was presented on 6 October. The election result is historic in being the worst result for the Social Democrats ever in a general election with universal suffrage (introduced in 1921) and the best result for the Moderates since 1928. Minor parties, that are not represented in the Riksdag, got a total of 5.7% of the votes, which was an increase of 2.6 percentage points , compared to

874-511: The most needy in society rather than helping them as Alliance for Sweden claimed. In addition the Centre Party proposed a special youth contract of employment for those aged under 26, allowing their term of employment to be ended by their employer up to two years after they begin work. This controversial proposal (not adopted by the Alliance as a whole) was intended to increase youth employment by making taking on new employees less risky for

912-430: The parliamentary threshold in the country's five southernmost constituencies. The campaigning for the 2006 election began early, as the opposition decided to present itself as a viable alternative government by forming an alliance: Alliance for Sweden. This alliance was negotiated at a meeting held in the village of Högfors, home to the chairman of the Centre Party, Maud Olofsson. The meeting ended on 31 August 2004 with

950-416: The party's relatively short party program were left to the approximately 100 candidates to decide on. The voters were encouraged to choose to vote for a particular June List candidate that they preferred rather than to cast a general ballot for the party itself. At one point, it seemed possible that the party might be able to break the 4% threshold necessary to enter parliament, with the party reaching 4.5% in

988-506: The polls in September 2005, but after that peak the party's support plummeted well below the 4% barrier and in the months before the election it became clear that the party would not be taking seats in parliament that year. In the end, the party received only 26,072 votes (0.47%). Nils Lundgren resigned as party leader in March 2008. The party decided to elect two co-leaders instead of one party leader. They elected Sören Wibe , former MEP and MP for

1026-491: The popular vote. The Alliance did not reach 50% of the vote, courtesy of several minor parties gathering up 5.67% of the overall vote. This was the final election before the Sweden Democrats entered the Riksdag, with the party getting close to three percent of the vote, falling short by just above one percentage point. The election also saw the party get above 10% in Bjuv Municipality in its Scanian heartlands and above

1064-451: The preliminary count from the election night. 6,892,009 people were eligible to vote in the election. The results are here compared with the 2002 election . There were 5,551,278 valid ballots cast, a turnout of 82%. Three hours after the polls closed, the result was clear enough for Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt to declare himself the victor and for Göran Persson to announce his resignation as prime minister and as leader of

1102-474: The presentation of a joint declaration outlining the principles under which the four parties intended to run in the election. One year later a similar meeting was held at Bankeryd, home of Göran Hägglund, leader of the Christian Democrats. See Alliance for Sweden for further information. The Alliance enjoyed a leading position for over a year over the red-green parties, according to most polls. However

1140-533: The re-branding as the 'New Moderates', which resulted in sizeable gains in historically left-wing locations in densely populated areas. As a result, several municipalities that had never voted blue before in Stockholm County flipped. This, combined with a landslide overall win in the capital region as a whole and strong showings in Scania tipped the balance in favour of the Alliance. The centre-right bloc also flipped

1178-538: The results of pre-election polls conducted by the five major polling institutes in Sweden. TEMO has a summary of all polls conducted since the election in 2002, and is therefore cited as the reference for each poll. The final results were published on 21 September 2006 by the Swedish Election Authority ( Valmyndigheten ). Apart from separating the minor parties, there were no big changes to

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1216-475: The same day. Fredrik Reinfeldt from the Moderate Party was able to form a majority government together with the Centre Party , Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats following the election. The Social Democrats were ousted after twelve years in power. It was the country's first majority government since the second Fälldin cabinet fell in 1981. Reinfeldt reached out to working-class votes in

1254-421: The same newspaper: "What LO' s Chairperson has not understood is that those youths who already have a job are not covered by our proposal. It does however give a new opportunity for the 146,000 youths who are wholly or partially living in the exclusion the Social Democrats have created... One of the main reasons why companies don't take on new staff is that the risk is too large. If the gamble doesn't pay off then

1292-523: The young will not result in more jobs. It will only lead to increased insecurity and an even larger exclusion... More than half of youths under 25 who work already have an insecure job; a time-limited job of some sort. This is most usual among our young female members. The most insecure jobs, 'need-employment' or the so-called 'phone and run locum ' is entirely on the employer's terms. Every morning many people sit and wait for their employer to ring. Am I needed today or not?". Olofsson replied two days later in

1330-429: Was a major issue in the campaign, especially considering the good performance of the Swedish economy (when compared with that of the rest of Europe ). The opposition also argued that "real" unemployment was much higher than the official figure of 4.8% (as of May 2006). They quoted a figure of 1,037,000 (or 17.9% of the labour force in January 2006) for those who are "outside the labour market because they do not have

1368-596: Was briefly revived for the 2014 European Parliament election. The party selected Jörgen Appelgren  [ sv ] , former chief economist of Nordea, as the new party leader and front-runner. The second front-runner was Camilla Lindberg , former MP for the Liberal People's Party . 2006 Swedish general election Göran Persson Social Democrats Fredrik Reinfeldt Moderate General elections were held in Sweden on 17 September 2006, to elect members to

1406-456: Was on the ballot for the 2006 parliamentary elections in Sweden. The party's platform during the election focused on a few main issues: to increase the number of people working in the private sector, hence increasing the state's tax income, a referendum on the European Union constitution and nuclear power, and increased municipal autonomy and more local referendums. All issues that were not in

1444-518: Was one of the founding members of the Independence and Democracy group in the European Parliament. In 2006 Wohlin, left the June List for the Christian Democrats, leaving the party with only two seats. Wohlin stated that he wanted to be able to "work for the Christian Democrats and the Alliance for Sweden in the 2006 parliamentary election" as reason for leaving the June List. The June List

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