The Liberal Youth of Sweden ( Swedish : Liberala ungdomsförbundet , LUF) is the youth wing of the Swedish Liberals . The Liberal Youth of Sweden has a long tradition of international cooperation and is a full member of the International Federation of Liberal Youth (IFLRY) and the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC). They have published the magazine Liebling - Liberal Youth since 1961.
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24-506: A proportion of GDP should go to aid. FPU also campaigned for Sweden to join NATO and for the TV and radio monopolies to be abolished. In the 1960s FPU became prominent under the leadership of among others Per Ahlmark and Ola Ullsten and influenced its mother party in a radical direction. However, a time of internal battles followed in the early 1970s, culminating in the chairmanship election of 1971 where
36-570: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Liberal Youth of Sweden The Liberal Youth of Sweden traces its roots back to Verdandi , a radical student organisation founded in 1882 by Karl Staaff , the future prime minister and leader of the Liberal Coalition Party . In 1910 the Swedish Freeminded Youth League ( Swedish : Sveriges frisinnade ungdomsförbund )
48-791: Is the congress, which is held every year. 99 congress delegates are elected by the districts, with one seat for each district and the remainder allocated in proportion to their number of members. Once every two years the congress discusses and amends the Liberal Youth's policy programme. The most recent such congress was held in 2019 in Västerås . 2002 Swedish general election Göran Persson Social Democrats Göran Persson Social Democrats General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 2002, alongside municipal and county council elections . The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained
60-563: The Moderates lost more than seven percentage points and barely held on as the largest party in its coalition. Only eight municipalities in all of Sweden had the Moderates as the largest party, six of which were in the Stockholm area. The Peoples' Party led by Lars Leijonborg , instead more than doubled its parliamentary delegation and received above 13% of the vote. Lundgren resigned in the wake of
72-579: The People's Party . The youth league was reunited in the same year as the Youth League of the People's Party ( Swedish : Folkpartiets ungdomsförbund , FPU) with Bertil Ohlin as its first chairperson. When it was founded it had 1000 members in about 100 local associations, but many new members soon joined. In the 1930s FPU campaigned on issues such as the abolition of school fees, and in the 1950s began to demand that
84-449: The general election of 2002 the membership of LUF increased significantly. On 28 February 2016 the Stockholm branch of the party passed a motion calling for the legalization of incest and necrophilia . From 2022 to 2024, Eric Berg served as chairperson of the youth wing. Anton Holmlund was elected chairperson in 2024. LUF has 21 districts, the three largest being Stockholm, Väst and Skåne. The highest decisionmaking authority
96-734: The election, leading to the selection of future Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt as the Moderate leader. Among the four other Riksdag parties, the Christian Democrats and the Left Party both lost ground, whereas the Centre and Green parties managed to reach the parliamentary threshold of four percentage points. Among minor parties, the Norrbotten Party reached 9.4% of the vote in its county , polling above 20% in some inland areas. However, this
108-529: The incumbent Per Gahrton was defeated by Lars Leijonborg by one vote's margin. At the congress in 1991 the youth league changed its name to the Liberal Youth of Sweden after the People's Party had renamed itself the Liberal People's Party the previous year. LUF was (and is) noted for its support of Swedish membership of the European Union , which Sweden joined in 1995. After the mother party's success in
120-596: The largest party in the Riksdag , winning 144 of the 349 seats. After securing a confidence and supply agreement with the Left Party and the Green Party , Prime Minister Göran Persson was able to remain in his position for a third consecutive term as a minority government. Although the bloc compositions were similar to 1998 , the complexions of the centre-right bloc shifted radically. Under new party leader Bo Lundgren ,
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#1732848386457144-637: Was formed as the youth wing of the Freeminded National Association, Sweden's first grassroots liberal organisation, with Eric Festin as its first chairperson. The youth league was active during the First World War , but lost members afterwards. In 1923 the Freeminded National Association split over the prohibition of alcohol , and though the youth league tried to stay together it too split in 1927. The two liberal parties reunited in August 1934 as
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