With less than a month left until Sweden's September 13th election, the Centre Party is now going all-in on aiming to attract voters to its "Middle Alternative", with its dream government consisting of the centre-left Social Democrats, the right-wing Christian Democrats, possibly the centre-left Green Party – and obviously the Centre Party itself.
Niels Paarup-Petersen, the Centre Party’s newly appointed migration spokesperson, has told The Local why he expects opposition to the government’s tightening of migration laws to grow in the coming year as more and more immigrants people know personally start to be affected.
The Centre Party's nomination committee has proposed Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist as the party's new leader, making her almost certain to be voted into the role when the party's delegates meet for their party congress next week.
The Centre Party’s election committee has nominated a leader to take over the reins of the struggling party. But who is Anna-Karin Hatt and why is her new role so crucial?
The knives have been out for Centre Party leader Muharrem Demirok since last summer and on Monday he finally gave up the fight, announcing his resignation. Will his replacement be in a position to choose Sweden's next prime minister?
The Local spoke to Muharrem Demirok for our Sweden in Focus podcast about his former allies' collaboration with the far-right, and his unlikely path from a rough Stockholm suburb to leader of the agrarian Centre Party, popular with rural voters.
In a press conference on Wednesday, Sweden's Centre Party announced that Muharrem Demirok, MP and former deputy mayor of Linköping, will take over from leader Annie Lööf following a party conference vote in February.
Sweden's Centre Party would consider minister roles in a Social Democrat-led government, the party's leader, Annie Lööf, said on Monday, firmly positioning her party in the left bloc.
In The Local's fourth pre-election party leader interview, the Centre Party's deputy leader Martin Ådahl celebrates his party's achievements over the past four years, rues the populist drift of the Moderates, and warns that the Social Democrats' work permit plan risks being a business catastrophe.
Centre Party leader Annie Lööf called for "togetherness and reflection" in a speech at Almedalen that showed her able to respond to tragedy like a national leader.
The leader of Sweden's Centre Party has said she "regrets" a party vote to work for a ban on non-medical circumcision, after Jewish and Muslim groups criticized the decision.
Next year's Swedish general election is set to be another tense one according to the latest polls, which provide further evidence that the country's political dynamic is shifting.
With just over a year left until Sweden's next general election, the country's biggest opposition party appears to be in freefall, dropping sharply in opinion polls and showing little sign of recovery. But could a bigger consequence of that be a shake-up in the very alliances which currently define Swedish politics?
On Tuesday the Riksdag is expected to vote in tough new asylum and residency rules, but the Centre Party is one of two that will vote against them. The party’s integration and migration policy spokeswoman Johanna Jönsson explains why they will reject the proposed measures.
Sweden's opposition is moving towards a unified front on Nato membership after Centre party bosses announced they would advocate joining the defence alliance on Tuesday.
UPDATED: Chairwoman of the Centre Party youth wing Hanna Wagenius was accused of breaking the law after her party urged members to tweet pictures of "zombie politics" May Day demonstrators with the hashtag #thewalkingred.
The minority Centre Party, a government coalition party that has traced an uneasy arc from farmers lobbyists to libertarians, has slumped below the voter support level required to stay in parliament.
The opposition Social Democrats plan to take down the minority Centre Party in the ratings in order to weaken the government ahead of next year's elections, Swedish media reported on Wednesday.
Swedish aid money channeled to Iraq has gone missing, leading the government coalition partner the Centre Party to report the democracy project that its international wing managed to the police.
The Centre Party's pingpong battle over a controversial ideas programme that saw its voter support shrink could be nearing its end as members rally for a "future conference" and leader Annie Lööf heralds a "green and liberal" stance.
Sweden's Centre Party has ditched proposals allowing for polygamy and changes to inheritance rights from its new party programme following rifts in the party.
