Moderata samlingspartiet

Moderata samlingspartiet Moderate gathering party
Party leader	Ulf Kristersson
Secretary General	Tomas Tobé
vice-chairman	Peter Danielsson , Elisabeth Svantesson
founding	October 17, 1904
Headquarters	Stockholm
Youth organization	Moderata ungdomsförbundet (MUF)
Alignment	Conservatism , economic liberalism
Colours)	blue
Parliament seats	70/349
Number of members	60,000
International connections	International Democratic Union (IDU)
MEPs	4/21
European party	European People's Party (EPP)
EP Group	Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)
Website	www.moderat.se

Moderata samlingspartiet (German "Moderate Sammlungspartei"), or Moderaterna ( M , German "Die Moderaten"), is a political party represented in the Swedish Reichstag . It is a bourgeois-conservative party with a liberal economic program.

history

The moderate rallying party was formed in 1904 under the name Allmänna Valmansförbundet (General Voters' Union) as a reaction to the electoral successes of the other two political groups of the time (Social Democrats and Liberals), which had organized themselves in previous years. The structure of the party was shaped by the later party chairman Arvid Lindman (party chairman 1912-1935). At first, the party appeared nationally conservative. The party had its greatest electoral successes in the 1920s, when it was by far the largest bourgeois party ( 1928 election : 29.4% of the vote), but it lost votes from the 1930s onwards, as it fought against social modernization. In 1938 she changed her name to Högern's Riksorganisation (Reich Organization of the Right) and in 1952 to Högerpartiet (right-wing party).

After the low in the 1948 election of 12.3%, an upward trend followed in the 1950s to 19.5% in the 1958 election . In the 1960s, the voter share fell until the party shrank to the smallest of the four bourgeois parties in the 1970 election with just 11.5% of the vote. The year before, the party had been renamed Moderata Samlingspartiet , which should signal a rapprochement with the political center. After the election defeat in 1970, Gösta Bohman took over the party leadership and continued the reorientation of the party. In the 1979 election she regained leadership in the bourgeois camp. The party was involved in coalition governments between 1976 and 1982.

After the 1991 election , party chairman Carl Bildt became prime minister and led a bourgeois coalition government until the 1994 election , when the Social Democrats returned to power.

Under the new chairman Fredrik Reinfeldt , the party presented itself as Nya Moderaterna (German New Moderate). As early as 2004, the bourgeois camp had come together in the Allians for Sverige alliance. After the joint election victory in 2006 , Fredrik Reinfeldt formed a bourgeois majority government. The moderates achieved 30.1% of the votes and 107 of 349 seats in the 2010 Reichstag election and were thus able to significantly improve their result compared to the previous Reichstag election. The center-right coalition still lost its majority and had to continue as a minority government. In the 2014 election, the party fell to 23.3% of the vote. The party was thus still the largest in the bourgeois bloc, but the bourgeois camp as a whole fell behind the center-left parties. Reinfeldt then submitted his resignation and announced that he would also retire from all party offices.

Since the new red-green government does not have a majority of its own, there was a government crisis in autumn 2014 that made new elections possible for a short time. This government crisis was resolved in December 2014 by the so-called December Agreement, in which the Social Democrats , Greens and the four bourgeois parties of the Alliance for Sweden agreed to tolerate minority governments until 2022 and thereby reduce the influence of the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats .

A special party conference of the moderates elected Anna Kinberg Batra as the new chair on January 10, 2015. After the party conference of the Christian Democrats spoke out against the December agreement, Kinberg Batra declared it invalid in autumn 2015. In January 2017, she announced that the moderates would seek cooperation with the Sweden Democrats on individual issues and that the red-green government could be overthrown by a budget draft of the alliance parties with the approval of the Sweden Democrats. This project could not be implemented. Ulf Kristersson has been party leader since October 2017 .

Reichstag elections

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

1911 31.2% 1914 (I) 37.7% 1914 (II) 36.5% 1917 24.7% 1920 27.9% 1921 25.8% 1924 26.1% 1928 29.4% 1932 23.1%

1936 17.6% 1940 18.0% 1944 15.8% 1948 12.3% 1952 14.4% 1956 17.1% 1958 19.5% 1960 16.6% 1964 13.7%

1968 13.9% 1970 11.5% 1973 14.3% 1976 15.6% 1979 20.3% 1982 23.6% 1985 21.3% 1988 18.3% 1991 21.9%

1994 22.4% 1998 22.9% 2002 15.3% 2006 26.2% 2010 30.1% 2014 23.3% 2018 19.8%

Party leader

• 1904–1905 Gustaf Fredrik Östberg
• 1905–1906 Axel G. Svedelius
• 1907 Hugo Tamm
• 1908–1912 Gustaf Fredrik Östberg
• 1912–1935 Arvid Lindman , Prime Minister 1906–1911 and 1928–1930
• 1935–1944 Gösta Bagge
• 1944–1950 Fritiof Domö
• 1950–1961 Jarl Hjalmarson
• 1961–1965 Gunnar Heckscher
• 1965-1970 Yngve Holmberg
• 1970-1981 Gösta Bohman
• 1981–1986 Ulf Adelsohn
• 1986–1999 Carl Bildt , Prime Minister 1991–1994
• 1999-2003 Bo Lundgren
• 2003–2015 Fredrik Reinfeldt , Prime Minister 2006–2014
• 2015–2017 Anna Kinberg Batra
• since 2017 Ulf Kristersson

Web links

Commons : Moderata samlingspartiet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Moderaterna Official Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinfeldt presents the New Moderates Svenska Dagbladet, August 25, 2005, accessed on June 24, 2012
2. ↑ M beredda lägga jointly alliance budget. Dagens Nyheter , January 19, 2017; accessed February 18, 2017 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ 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