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Arkelsten replaced as Moderate Party secretary

Politics: 20 Apr 12
The Moderates have named a local politician from Örebro to take over as party secretary from Sofia Arkelsten, who had only been on the post since October 2010. READ »

British PM in Sweden to discuss women and work

Politics: 8 Feb 12
David Cameron joined Fredrik Reinfeldt and other heads of government from northern Europe who have gathered in Stockholm to discuss common future challenges at the Northern Future Forum. READ »

'Obama cares more about Norway than Reinfeldt'

National: 29 Jul 11
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt tried on Friday to respond to criticism that he has been missing-in-action following last week's terror attacks in Norway. READ »

Reinfeldt backs Moderate party secretary

Politics: 28 Oct 10
Fredrik Reinfeldt has come out in support of the Moderate Party's new party secretary Sofia Arkelsten, while one in four voters think she should step down in the wake of revelations that she accepted several all-expenses paid trips. READ »

Live Blog: parliament opens

Politics: 5 Oct 10
Another eventful day in Swedish politics has come to a close with Fredrik Reinfeldt having presented his new government, the Sweden Democrats having added a little colour and outraged drama, and the king having calmly reminded the Riksdag of its role as a bastion of Swedish democracy. READ »

Brains behind Moderates' success steps down

Politics: 1 Oct 10
Per Schlingmann, the Moderate party secretary largely credited as the mastermind behind the party’s two successful election campaigns, is leaving his post, to be replaced by Sofia Arkelsten. READ »

Party leaders slam opinion poll flood

Politics: 13 Jul 10
There are too many voter opinion polls with the large number of polls meaning that they lose their value - on this point parliamentary party leaders are in agreement, according to a survey by the Svenska Dagbladet daily. READ »

Feminist cash burning provokes backlash

Politics: 7 Jul 10
The Feminist Initiative's controversial burning of 100,000 kronor ($13,000) in Visby on Tuesday in a demonstration for equal pay between the sexes, has come in for criticism from allies and opponents alike. READ »

Alliance coalition pulls ahead of opposition: poll

Politics: 6 May 10
The shadow budget and International Worker's Day celebrations do not seem to have benefited the left-green opposition who have fallen behind the government parties in the latest voter opinion poll. READ »

Opposition youth league registers government 'Alliance' brand

Politics: 17 Mar 10
SSU, the opposition Social Democrat party youth league, has registered the patent for the Swedish word Alliansen (The Alliance) - the collective name used by the government for its four-party coalition. READ »

Housekeeping tax relief divides opposition

National: 28 Feb 10
Sweden's Moderate Party is launching a campaign today to make housekeeping a major issue in the country's upcoming elections thereby exploiting divisions between opposition parties. READ »

Green Party stumbles in new poll

Politics: 5 Feb 10
The two political blocs have drawn to within three percentage points of each other, a new voter poll shows. The Green Party is the biggest loser in the new survey. READ »

Sweden Democrats score five percent in major poll

Politics: 10 Dec 09
The far-right Sweden Democrat party enjoys the support of 5.1 percent of the electorate, according to a major new survey from Statistics Sweden. READ »

Moderates drop four points in new poll

National: 4 Dec 09
A new poll from Expressen/Demoskop shows support for Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderate party has dropped by four percent to 25.3 percent. READ »

Moderate hierarchy warns Vellinge party cadre

National: 15 Nov 09
The Moderate party secretary Per Schlingmann has warned party members in Skåne in southern Sweden over comments regarding the housing of refugee children at a Vellinge youth hostel. READ »

Alliance overtakes opposition: poll

Politics: 4 Apr 09
The Alliance government in Sweden has overtaken the red-green opposition, a new poll shows. The poll indicates that in an election the far-right Sweden Democrats would be left holding the balance of power. READ »

Moderate Party: 'half our candidates will be women'

Politics: 6 Mar 09
Sweden’s Moderate Party says it wants half of the party’s candidates for the 2010 elections to be women. READ »

Opposition presses ahead with anti-nuke stance

Politics: 9 Feb 09
Sweden’s three opposition political parties plan on arriving at government energy talks on Thursday armed with a common position, the parties announced on Monday. READ »

Moderates propose major development aid reforms

Politics: 27 Nov 08
The Moderate Party wants to ditch Sweden’s development aid goal of devoting 1 percent of the country’s gross national income (GNI) to foreign assistance. READ »

Moderates: 'Immigrants should sign Swedish contract'

Politics: 23 Nov 08
Immigrants to Sweden should sign a contract to testify familiarity with Swedish laws, rules and values. If the contract is not met then their benefits should be reviewed, the Moderate party has proposed. READ »

Borg tops in Sweden power rankings

National: 14 Nov 08
Finance minister Anders Borg has surpassed prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt as Sweden’s most influential powerbroker, according to a new ranking. READ »

Free trade fears cloud Sweden's embrace of Obama

Politics: 5 Nov 08
Amid the excitement in Sweden over Barack Obama’s victory, there remains real concern among members of the political and business establishment over how the US president-elect will approach the issue of free trade. READ »

Sweden welcomes Obama

Politics: 5 Nov 08
Swedish politicians welcomed the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States on Wednesday morning, following the Democratic candidate’s defeat of rival John McCain. READ »

'Cut taxes for single parents'

Politics: 29 Jun 08
The Moderate party women's association, Moderatkvinnorna, has called for taxes to be cut for single parents. Every fifth single mum is classified as poor in Sweden. READ »

Moderates: No forced retirement

Politics: 4 Mar 08
Moderate party secretary Per Schlingmann believe older workers deserve protection from forced retirement at age 67. READ »

More opinion-poll woes for Moderates

Politics: 13 Jan 08
A new study shows a continued decline in support for the Moderates. READ »

Refugees "should support relatives in Sweden"

Society: 17 Jun 07
Refugees who want their relatives to move to Sweden could be forced to support them and provide them with accommodation, under a new proposal from the Moderates. READ »

Alliance parties 'won't merge'

Politics: 3 May 07
Sweden's governing Alliance will remain as four separate parties, their secretaries have declared in a joint article. They are already working on a joint manifesto for the 2010 election, they say. READ »

Sahlin: Sweden Democrats 'misogynistic and xenophobic'

Politics: 20 Apr 07
On Thursday evening, Mona Sahlin became the latest representative of a parliamentary party to join in a televised debate with the leader of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson. READ »

Top politicians to debate with Sweden Democrats

Politics: 12 Apr 07
The secretary of Sweden's governing Moderate Party, Per Schlingmann, is to meet the leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats in a televised debate for the first time. READ »

Moderates promise more female candidates

Politics: 28 Feb 07
Sweden's Moderate Party may have achieved its best result in modern times in last year's general election, but a post-election analysis has shown that far fewer women than men voted for the party. READ »

Top Moderate pays for 14 years of TV viewing

Politics: 26 Dec 06
He has not paid his television licence fee for fourteen years, something he admits was "careless", but now Moderate Party secretary Per Schlingmann has settled his debt. Now he waits to see whether the police will get involved. READ »

New Moderate secretary named

Politics: 28 Sep 06
The Moderate Party has named communications director Per Schlingmann to the key post of party secretary. He replaces Sven-Otto Littorin, whose future is so far unclear. READ »

Parties mobilise for election

Politics: 25 Sep 05
The fight for voters in next September's general election has started. The Social Democrats need to go on the offensive, and the Moderates must defend the support they have won. READ »


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