Kristdemokraterna

Kristdemokraterna Christian Democrats
Party leader	Ebba Bush
Secretary General	Acko Ankarberg Johansson
founding	1964
Headquarters	Stockholm
Alignment	Christian democracy , conservatism , economic liberalism
Parliament seats	22/349
International connections	Christian Democratic International (CDI)
MEPs	2/21
European party	European People's Party (EPP)
EP Group	Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)
Website	www.kristdemokraterna.se

Information booth of the Christian Democrats in the Swedish election campaign 2010

Kristdemokraterna ( KD for short , German: The Christian Democrats ) form a political party represented in the Swedish Reichstag . It is a Christian-social party with strong roots in the Swedish free churches . The Christian Democrats received 6.3% of the vote and 22 of 349 seats in the 2018 Reichstag election . Ebba Busch has been party chairman since April 2015 .

history

In 1964 the Kristen Demokratisk Samling ( KDS ) party was founded. In the first two decades, the party pursued a culturally conservative line with a strong focus on Christian values. The election results were below two percent in the first two decades. In 1987 the party program was completely revised and the name was changed to Kristdemokratiska Samhällspartiet (Christian Democratic Society Party ). It opened up to a more pragmatic, non-denominational policy: Among other things, there was increased commitment to environmental issues and more precise economic and socio-political positions.

After party chairman Alf Svensson entered the Reichstag in the 1985/88 legislative period via the Center Party's list, the Christian Democrats succeeded in overcoming the four percent hurdle in the 1991 election and moving into the Reichstag with parliamentary groups. You took part in the bourgeois coalition government of Carl Bildt (1991-94), and Alf Svensson became Minister for Development Aid. In 1996 the party changed its name again ( Kristdemokraterna ).

The tensions between the two wings within the party, the devout Christian members and the pragmatists, who represent a non-denominational party line based on the Christian value system, emerged clearly in the 1998 election .

After the resignation of long-time party leader Svensson in 2004, Göran Hägglund , Maria Larsson and Mats Odell competed for the chairmanship. Both Larsson and Odell withdrew their application, however, so that Hägglund was elected as the new chairman on April 3, 2004, with no opposing candidates. In the run-up to the 2006 election , the Christian Democrats and three other parties from the bourgeois camp formed the Alliance for Sweden, led by Fredrik Reinfeldt . The Alliance won the election, Reinfeldt was elected Prime Minister, and for the Christian Democrats, Hägglund joined the government as Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Larsson as Minister of Public Health and Welfare and Odell as Minister of Local and Financial Affairs.

In the European elections in 2009 they achieved 4.7%. The former party leader Alf Svensson was able to move into the European Parliament as the only member of the Christian Democrats through a preferential vote campaign. There he is a member of the EPP Group . In the 2010 Reichstag election , the Christian Democrats suffered slight losses of 5.6%, but the alliance was able to continue to govern due to the good overall results. Hägglund remained Minister of Health and Social Affairs, Larsson became the new Minister for Youth and Seniors. Odell retired from the government for him came Stefan Attefall as Minister of Public Administration and Housing Administration in the government Reinfeldt one.

The Christian Democrats traditionally achieve their best election results in the so-called Swedish Bible Belt in the Småland highlands and there especially in the Gnosjö community .

Reichstag elections

Elections to the Second Chamber until 1968. Information from Statistiska Centralbyrån .

1964 1.8% 1968 1.5% 1970 1.8% 1973 1.8% 1976 1.4%

1979 1.4% 1982 1.9% 1985 2.3% 1988 2.9% 1991 7.1%

1994 4.1% 1998 11.8% 2002 9.2% 2006 6.6% 2010 5.6%

2014 4.6% 2018 6.3%

Party leader

• 1964–1972 Birger Ekstedt
• 1973-2004 Alf Svensson
• 2004–2015 Göran Hägglund
• 2015- Ebba Busch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage of the Kristdemokraterna ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2013 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. , (Swedish), accessed December 5, 2015 
2. ↑ Historical election statistics ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2012 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. Statistiska Centralbyrån, accessed June 24, 2012 
3. ^ Partial result of the Christian Democrats, who ran together with the Center Party in 1985 under the designation Centern .

Web links

• Kristdemokraterna Official Website

literature

Swedish

• Niels Arbøl: Kristdemokraterna en världsrörelse (Samhällsgemenskap, 1986) ISBN 91-85036-22-6 (svensk översättning Ingvar Svensson)
• Cecilia Hjort Attefall: Partiet som lyfte: 40 år med svensk kristdemokrati: 1964-2004 (Samhällsgemenskap, 2004) ISBN 91-85036-52-8
• Birger Ekstedt: KDS - en politisk nödvändighet (Samhällsgemenskap, 1970)
• Göran V. Johansson: Kristen Demokrati På Svenska (Liber, 1985) ISBN 91-40-05103-X
• Erik Lindfeldt: moral part. En bok om KdS (Carlssons, 1991) ISBN 91-7798-433-1
• Bernt Olsson: Upprinnelsen. Om Kristdemokraternas första tid i Sverige (Samhällsgemenskap, 2004) ISBN 91-85036-56-0
• Allan Sandström: KDS - Partiet bakom fromhetsvallen (LT, 1979) ISBN 91-36-01329-3
• Alf Svensson: I Tiden, från motvind till uppvindar (Samhällsgemenskap, 1984) ISBN 91-85036-10-2
• Kristdemokratisk Debatt (party newspaper 1992–2003) ISSN  1103-1522