Feminist initiative

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Feminist initiative
Feminist initiative
Feminist initiative logo.svg
Party leader Gudrun Schyman
Party leader Gudrun Schyman and Gita Nabavi
founding April 4, 2005
Headquarters Stockholm
Youth organization Unga Feminister
Alignment feminism
Colours) pink
Parliament seats
0/349
Number of members 21,190
MEPs
0/21
Website feministisktinitiativ.se

Feminist initiative (German: Feminist Initiative ; abbreviations: Fi or F!) Was originally a political association in Sweden . The association was founded on April 4, 2005 . In September 2005 a party was formed from this in order to be able to participate in the Swedish parliamentary elections in 2006 . The party's spokespersons have been Gudrun Schyman and Victoria Kawesa since March 2017 .

Content profile

Policy and election programs

The main concern of the Feminist Initiative is to achieve equality for all people. According to the party, everyone has a basic right to a life free of discrimination. The party is committed against all forms of discrimination (including sexism , racism , homophobia , transphobia or antiziganism, etc.) and is guided by the theory of intersectionality .

In addition to human rights, the Feminist Initiative is committed to more sustainability and nature conservation . Renewable resources such as wind and solar energy should be promoted, while environmentally harmful forms of energy generation should be stopped as quickly as possible. The party wants to close all nuclear power plants in Sweden. The expansion of animal rights is another focus of the party.

The party sees itself as pacifist and rejects arms exports.
One of the party's demands was the introduction of a "men's tax", with which all men should pay for the consequences of violence against women by individual men.

The party advocates a liberal migration policy, the amnesty of all refugees in Sweden, a tightening of the criminal law for rape and sexual harassment, and free public transport. She rejects prostitution and advocates a ban on buying sex.

Orientation of the party

At the time it was founded, the party saw itself as purely “feminist”, i.e. neither left nor right. After the election platform was presented, however, it turned out that the party with its program is at home on the left of the center. In the opinion of the Alliansen , the Feminist Initiative represents a center-left party for them. The expression “socialist” was often used. Gudrun Schyman strictly rejects this designation.

Election results

In the 2006 Reichstag elections , the party received 0.68% of the vote. In February 2007, the party initially decided not to run for elections. However, the decision was later revised.

The feminist initiative also ran for the 2010 Reichstag elections , but failed to make it into the Reichstag with 0.40% of the vote. In the local election held at the same time, the party in Schyman's home parish Simrishamn was the third strongest with 8.9% and received four seats.

In the 2014 European elections , the party received 5.3% of the vote in Sweden and can therefore send a candidate to the European Parliament . The party's top candidate, Soraya Post , works as a human rights expert in her home province of Västra Götaland and is particularly committed to the rights of the Swedish and European Roma population.

In the 2014 election to the Swedish Reichstag , the party received 3.1% of the vote and thus narrowly failed to meet the threshold of 4%, but was able to move into several municipal councils (a total of 27 seats). The 2018 election ended disappointingly for the party with 0.5 percent.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schyman launches “Feminist Initiative” . The local Sweden, thelocal.se. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ Status: September 2014 feministisktinitiativ.se
  3. ^ Election platform . Feminist Initiative official website, feministisktinitiativ.se. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ Feminism is liberation for women and men . The standard . Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  5. ↑ Miljo . Feminist initiative. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  6. ↑ Djurrätt . Feminist initiative. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  7. ↑ How Sweden's Feminist Initiative Party Became First of its Kind to Win a Seat in European Parliament . Democracy Now !. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  8. ↑ We fight against male dominance . Daily mirror. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  9. ↑ Öppna och gränser flyktingamnesti . Feminist Initiative official website, feministisktinitiativ.se. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  10. ↑ En ny sexualbrottslagstiftning - kriminalisera sex utan samtycke . Feminist Initiative official website, feministisktinitiativ.se. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  11. ↑ Prostitution and negotiation for sexually ändamål . In: Feminist initiative . ( feministisktinitiativ.se [accessed December 25, 2017]).
  12. ^ Feminist Initiative looks ahead to election . sverigesradio.se. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
  13. ↑ Val till riksdagen - Roaster Valmyndigheten; Retrieved September 26, 2010
  14. ↑ Val till kommunfullmäktige i Simrishamn 2010 Valmyndigheten; Retrieved September 26, 2010
  15. ↑ Val till Europaparlamentet Valnatt ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Valmyndigheten; accessed on May 27, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.val.se
  16. ↑ Candidate till Europaparlamentet ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Feminist initiative; accessed on May 27, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / feministisktinitiativ.se
  17. ↑ Fi tar mandat i 13 kommuner , Dagens Samhälle Stockholm, (Swedish), September 15, 2014.