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The Liberals Swedish : LiberalernaLpreviously known as the Liberal People's Party Swedish : Folkpartiet liberalerna until 22 Novemberis a conservative-liberal [ 6 ] [ 7 ] political party in Sweden. The Liberals ideologically have shown a broad variety of liberal tendencies.
The Liberals– for freedom, schools and integration. – Liberalerna
Currently they are seen as following classical liberalism [ 8 ] and economic liberalism[ 9 ] [ 10 ] and have been described as being centre-right. Historically, the party was positioned in the centre of the Swedish political landscape, willing to cooperate with both the political left and the right. It has since the leadership of Lars Leijonborg and Jan Björklund in the s positioned itself more towards the right.
The party's policies include action toward a free market economy and pushing for Sweden to join the Eurozoneas well uppror liberalerna investing in nuclear power ; [ 16 ] it also focuses on gender equalitythe school system and quality education.
In Februaryfollowing the conclusion of government negotiationsJan Björklund announced his intention to step down from the leadership position after 11 years at the helm of the Liberals. He was succeeded by Nyamko Sabuni in June In an interview with Dagens Nyheter in FebruarySabuni stated that the Sweden Democrats will "play an important role in an eventual right-wing government" and that she would not be hesitant to work and collaborate with them, stating that there uppror liberalerna a possibility of Liberals supporting a Moderate-Christian Democrats-Sweden Democrats government, even if the Liberals were not included in the government.
On 4 Septemberonly weeks before the general electionthe Social Democratic Party reported to the police that its internal network had been hacked into. It has been reported that members of the then-named Liberal People's Party had, in order to counter Social Democrat political propositions, on at least two occasions copied secret information that had not yet been officially released. Leading members of the party and its youth organisation both were placed under a police investigation, suspected for criminal activity.
All members of the party were acquitted by the court; however, an official of the party's youth organisation, and one from the Social Democrats as well "uppror liberalerna" a newspaper reporter, were found guilty. The official party ideology has historically been social liberalism[ 30 ] which translates as a strong ideological commitment to a mixed economywith support for comprehensive but market-based welfare state programs.
While initially allied with the Swedish Social Democratic Party in the struggle uppror liberalerna democracy achieved in and social reform, the People's Party came to be part of the opposition from the thirties and onwards, opposing Social Democrat demands for nationalization of private businesses. It has stayed opposed to the Social Democrats ever since, often as the largest or second-largest party of the opposition block called the non-socialists or "de borgerliga", approximately the bourgeoisbut often equally critical towards parties on the right.
Over time, this has shifted towards a more clear-cut rightwing role. In the mid-nineties the party seemed to have ruled out the alternative of co-operation with the Social Democrats, focusing instead on bringing them down by strengthening the opposition. Foreign policy is another high-profile issue. Always oriented towards the United States and the United Kingdomthe party was a strong opponent of Communism and Nazism during the 20th century.
While it was part of and supported the Swedish coalition government and its position of neutrality during World War II, the party advocated an active stance against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The party uppror liberalerna Moderaterna actively supported the struggle of the Baltic peoples against the Soviet regime, whereas Social Democrats were wary of irritating the Soviets.
It also criticised what it perceived as Social Democrat tolerance of left-wing dictatorships in the third world, and supported the United States in the Vietnam War. After the end of the Cold War, it became the first Swedish party to call for abandoning the country's traditional neutrality in favor of joining NATO.
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Among issues concerning the developing world, the party supported decolonization and advocated boycotting South Uppror liberalerna to help overthrow apartheid rule. It also opposed third world Communist dictatorships. Nowadays it is strongly supportive of Israeland former Party leader Per Ahlmark has been especially vocal on the issue.
On the European level, the Liberal People's Party was strongly supportive of the emergence of the European Union and campaigned for Swedish entry into it which happened in It also campaigned for joining the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Unionbut this was voted down by the Swedes in a referendum in The party has aimed to come across as the most "pro-European" party, trying to break what it refers to as the country's "isolationist" mindset.
The Liberals– for freedom, schools and integration.
It is supportive of EU enlargementincluding letting Turkey join on condition of democratic reforms, and also advocates further integrative measures, uppror liberalerna some members, including the youth organization, openly calling for a single federal European state. Inthe Liberal People's Party supported the invasion of Iraqbut stopped short of demanding Swedish participation in the US-led " coalition of the willing ".
In recent years, and especially under the leadership of Jan Björklundthe party has moved markedly towards conservative liberalism in its social attitudes, taking tougher stands on areas such as crime and punishment, law and order, school and discipline as well as strengthening its abolitionist policies on drugs. Historically the party had a strong base in the 'free churches' Protestant congregations not part of the state church that turned into powerful grassroots movements in the late 19th centurybut with the exception of certain regions, that is not a significant feature today.
Tensions between factions sometimes described as "the free religionists" and "the metropolitan liberals" occasionally in the form of an open left-right conflict, with the "free religious" members emphasizing the social aspect over liberal economics was an important part of party life until the seventies. It provoked a party split in the twenties, centred on the question of an alcohol uppror liberalerna, but differences were eventually repaired.
The re-merging of the parties in is one of the party's plethora of official creation dates, uppror liberalerna others beingandproviding frequent cause for anniversary celebrations. Support for the party is more marked among people above the age of 65, and tends to be higher among people who have completed more education. Its support is lowest among people with a pre- gymnasial education.
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The party's support is especially strong in affluent municipalities such as Danderyd, Lidingö and Lomma. The party has a youth organization called Liberal Youth of Sweden Liberala ungdomsförbundet, LUFwhich has its own platform and maintains a separate organisation from the party. Additionally, party members maintain a number of small ad hoc "networks" addressing specific issues.
It is also part of Liberal organisations on the Nordic and Baltic levels. Contents move uppror liberalerna sidebar hide.