Alliance for Sweden
The alliance for Sweden ( Swedish Allians för Sverige ), short alliance ( Swedish Alliansen ), describes a strategic alliance of four parties of the bourgeois camp in Sweden . It was able to unite the most votes in the Reichstag elections in 2006 and 2010 .
founding
The alliance was established in 2004 with a view to the Reichstag election on September 17, 2006 and comprises the Moderata samlingspartiet (Moderate rallying party), the Folkpartiet liberalerna (People's Party), the Centerpartiet (Center Party) and the Kristdemokraterna (Christian Democrats). The alliance was mainly driven by Fredrik Reinfeldt from the conservative moderates, who appeared as a common candidate for the office of Prime Minister. The parties continue to compete independently, there are no lists or constituency agreements.
2006 election campaign
In the election campaign, the alliance primarily criticized unemployment in the country and promoted a strategy of moderate dismantling of the Swedish welfare state. Without any major differences in the election programs between the previous government and the opposition alliance, many observers spoke of a choice of person between the incumbent Social Democratic Prime Minister Persson and Reinfeldt. With 48.2% of the vote, the Alliance for Sweden achieved 178 out of 349 seats in the Swedish Reichstag and replaced the Social Democrats in government.
Losses in 2010 and 2014
In the 2010 Reichstag election , the alliance lost key mandates when the Sweden Democrats moved in , so that the bourgeois government was dependent on changing majorities. In 2014 the alliance even fell behind the red-green parties, so Reinfeldt declared his withdrawal and left the social democratic candidate Löfven to form a government.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrike Herrmann: System change in Scandinavia TAZ, September 21, 2006, accessed on June 24, 2012
