Christian Democrats Kristdemokraterna | |
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| Abbreviation | KD |
| Chairperson | Ebba Busch |
| Founder | Lewi Pethrus |
| Founded | 20 March 1964; 61 years ago (1964-03-20) |
| Headquarters | Munkbron 1,Stockholm |
| Student wing | Christian Democratic Student League |
| Youth wing | Young Christian Democrats |
| Women's wing | Christian Democratic Women's League |
| Membership(2023) |  23,707[1] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right[10] toright-wing[11] |
| European affiliation | European People's Party |
| European Parliament group | European People's Party Group |
| International affiliation | Centrist Democrat International International Democracy Union |
| Nordic affiliation | Centre Group |
| Colours | Navy Blue (customary) Blue (official) White |
| Riksdag | 19 / 349 |
| European Parliament | 1 / 21 |
| County councils | 119 / 1,696 |
| Municipal councils | 676 / 12,700 |
| Website | |
| kristdemokraterna.se | |
TheChristian Democrats (Swedish:Kristdemokraterna[ˈkrɪ̂sːtdɛmʊˌkrɑːtɛɳa]ⓘ,KD) is aChristian democratic[2][12]political party in Sweden founded in March 1964. It first entered parliament in 1985, through electoral cooperation with theCentre Party; in 1991, the party won seats on its own. The party leader since 25 April 2015 has beenEbba Busch.[13]
The party name was initially abbreviated toKDS (standing forKristen demokratisk samlingpronunciationⓘ,Christian Democratic Unity), from its foundation in 1964 to 1996, when the party changed its name to the currentChristian Democrats and its abbreviation toKD.
The party was aminor party incentre-right coalition governments led byModerate PartyPrime MinistersCarl Bildt from 1991 to 1994 andFredrik Reinfeldt from 2006 to 2014, with the latter under a formalised cooperation within theAlliance for Sweden. The party has been a minor party in the coalition government led by Moderate Party Prime MinisterUlf Kristersson since 2022, this time withModerate Party and theLiberals with support from theSweden Democrats.
The KD sits with theEuropean People's Party in theEuropean Parliament, and is a member ofCentrist Democrat International andInternational Democracy Union in which both contain other Christian democratic parties.
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Ideologically, the KD is acentre-rightChristian democratic party that during the last few years has shifted to theright and adopted moreconservative policies.[14]
According to the party, their five most important policy issues include:[15]
KD's platform and policies have been shaped by the tenets ofChristian democracy,stewardship, and the shared responsibility between the church and political institutions, the responsibility of solidarity towards fellow human beings and the safeguarding of civil society, permeated with socially and culturally conservative values.[19]
The KD supports reducing petrol prices and abolishing theproperty tax.[20] The KD also supports themonarchy.[21]
The Christian Democrats want a flexibleimmigration policy, but one that is regulated and controlled. The party names aNordic level when it comes to immigration, meaning the amount ofrefugees that enter Sweden should be at the same level as in the other Nordic countries. The KD also calls for a socially just but efficient asylum policy in which resources can be allocated to those in need in tandem with faster screening and quicker deportation of those who fail or abuse the asylum claiming processes, as well as increased spending on border patrol police.[22] It also wants to introduce a special integration committee in the Riksdag and compulsory measures for refugees to learn Swedish and adopt Swedish customs andsocial norms.[22] Since 2018, the party has pledged a tougher line against immigration andmulticulturalism, including opposing theIslamic call to prayer in public spaces.[23][24]
Onforeign policy, the KD is largely supportive of Sweden's membership of theEuropean Union. They were in favour of entering theeurozone during the2003 Swedish euro referendum, but after the “No” side won the referendum in a landslide victory the party changed its stance and are now against joining the eurozone.[25] They are calling for "a narrower and sharper EU" and that "on a number of issues, the EU need to take a step back and give more power back to thenation states”.[26]
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The party had its roots in a movement against the Swedish government's decision in 1963 to remove religious education from the elementary school syllabus. An organisation called "Christian Social Responsibility", which would later become the Christian Democratic Unity, organised several marches against the decision, one of which became one of the largest in Swedish modern history. Despite the public outcry and over 2.1 million protest signatures, the decision went through. The group that had worked in the campaign felt it was a sign that Swedish politics needed a Christian Democratic Party.
The political and social origins of the Swedish Christian Democrats clearly differ from those of the European continental Christian Democratic parties (as inItaly orGermany). In those countries, Christian Democracy represented the mainstream of the social-conservative political forces and was closely tied to majoritarian religious practice. In Sweden, however, Christian Democracy emerged as a minority grouping amongst the centre-right forces and was tied to minority-religious tendencies in society (particularly among voters associated with thefree churches and likemindedLutherans).
In the beginning of 1964,Lewi Pethrus, founder of the SwedishPentecostal movement and chief editor of the Swedish newspaperDagen, discussed the idea of a Swedish Christian democratic party on the editorial pages ofDagen. He stated that many people had contacted him about the idea and that the current Swedish political climate was dominated by atheisteconomic materialism.
PrincipalAlgot Tergel hosted a conference on 7 February of the same year. The topic of the conference was "Christianity and Politics", and during the conference the idea of starting a Christian Democratic Party was discussed. A committee consisting of Pethrus and eight other Free Church leaders was formed.
A large and widespread debate followed the decision to create the committee.Dagen published an interview withKjell Bondevik, the leader of the NorwegianChristian Democratic Party, and there were talks about creating a Christian Democratic Party in Finland as well.
On 20 March 1964, the party was founded as Christian Democratic Unity (Kristen demokratisk samling). At first, it was only an organisation, but at a board meeting later that year it was decided that the organisation would be revamped into a party and that it would compete in thenational elections in Sweden. The first roughly 100 members electedBirger Ekstedt to the post of party chair and Lewi Pethrus to the post of vice chair.
The party grew rapidly; by the end of the year, it had 14,500 members.
During its early years, the KDS was sometimes called the "Air and Water" party because of its strong emphasis on environmental politics. At that time theGreen Party of Sweden did not exist, and thus the Christian Democratic Unity had a unique appeal with its environmentally friendly policies. In the Swedish national elections of 1964 the party gained 1.8% of the vote, not enough to get any seats in theRiksdag, but the party already had influence at the municipal level. In the municipal elections of 1966 the party gained 354 seats.
At this time, the established major parties of Sweden began discussing new ways of making it more difficult for minor parties to enter the Riksdag.The Riksdag was reformed in 1971; with this came theD'Hondt method of allocating seats. Theelectoral threshold was set at 4%, which meant that the wanted political breakthrough was far away now.
Birger Ekstedt died in 1972, aged 51, only a few days after having been reelected as the party chair. An emergency congress was called; thereAlf Svensson, the relatively unknown chair of theyouth wing of the party, was elected chair. Svensson was to become one of the most important figures in modern Swedish politics. In the national elections of 1973 the party gained 1.8% of the vote, the same result as in the two preceding elections.
Before the national elections of 1976, there was a strong call for a change to a right-wing government in Sweden. The organisation "Vote right-wing" was formed to promote the change to a right-wing government. The KDS, however, announced a desire not to be placed on the traditional right-wing/left-wing scale, a measurement system it felt was outdated. Therefore, the "Vote right-wing" organisation started a campaign of negative campaigning against the KDS with the slogan "Don't vote for KDS, don't throw away your vote" as the KDS had not reached the 4% threshold at the last elections. The effect of this large campaign on a small and relatively new party like the KDS was disastrous, and it gained only 1.4% of the vote in the 1976 election.
At the start of the 1980s, the party revamped its entire political manifesto. The party abandoned its conservative stance on abortion and instead assumed a moderate pro-choice stance and adopted a plank to work to lower the total number of abortions in Sweden through encouragement of individual voluntary measures instead. In the 1980nuclear power referendums the party supported the "no" campaign, which meant opposing any further construction of new nuclear power-plants in Sweden and advocating the phasing-out of all nuclear power plants in Sweden within 10 years, together with increased investments inrenewable energy.
In 1982, theChristian Democratic Women's League was founded, and the party gained 1.9% of the votes, for the first time getting more than 100,000 votes.
As early as 1978, the KDS discussed the idea of electoral cooperation with theCentre Party. Similar ideas were discussed before the 1982 elections but were never put into action. One of the proponents of such a collaboration was the then secretary of informationMats Odell. The party officially took a stance against a socialist government, which effectively put them together with the right-wing block.
The negotiations were difficult, but in 1984 the Centre Party and KDS agreed to run under a joint banner in the next year's elections under the nameSwedish:Centernpronunciationⓘ ("The Centre").
The deal, which was heavily criticised by theSwedish Social Democratic Party, meant that each party had its own voting ticket but that the Centre Party should nominate a Christian Democratic candidate on at least five of the regional candidacy lists. The Centre Party ticket would win over the KDS ticket almost everywhere, but this way there would be at least five Christian Democrats in the Riksdag. The Centre Party did not fulfil its promise, however, and put a Christian Democrat on the list only in the municipality ofKalmar. This resulted in great tensions within the Christian Democrats; one of the party icons, the environmental activist Björn Gillberg, left the party. However, Alf Svensson managed to get into the Riksdag through the KDS party ticket inJönköping.
In 1987, the party manifesto was revamped once again (although not so heavily as the last time), and the party changed its name toChristian Democratic Social Party (Swedish:Kristdemokratiska Samhällspartietpronunciationⓘ), while keeping theKDS abbreviation. In the 1988 national elections the party grew significantly and gained 2.8% of the votes. But the Centre Party did not wish any further electoral cooperation, and Alf Svensson had to leave the Riksdag. Something had happened, however. The party was now recognised as one of the major parties in Sweden, and Svensson had become famous. According to many opinion polls, he was the most popular politician in the entire nation.
Several famous people joined the party, and in the right-wing breakthrough national elections of 1991 the party grew explosively yet again and gained over 7% of the votes. The right-wing bloc gained a majority, and KDS formed a government with the right-wing bloc. Several Christian Democrats got positions within the new government: Alf Svensson as the minister of foreign aid (and vice foreign minister),Inger Davidson as minister of civilian infrastructure, and Mats Odell as minister of communications.
After the right-wing bloc lost the 1994 general election, the KDS managed to stay in the Riksdag and had assumed a steady position within Swedish national politics. In 1996, it changed its name to the current form,Christian Democrats (Kristdemokraterna), switching the abbreviation form toKD, in a gesture perceived by elements both inside and outside the party as helping deflect the belief that it was a strictly religious party. In 1998 the party had its best elections ever, gaining over 11% of the votes; it established itself as the fourth-largest party in the Riksdag, becoming larger than its former electoral partner the Centre Party. In the 2002 national elections, the party got fewer votes but still held on to its position as the fourth-largest party.
In 2004, Svensson stepped down in favor of his long-designated successorGöran Hägglund.
At the end of 2005, the party had 24,202 confirmed members, making it the fourth-largest party in size as well. Its membership is far more stable than most parties in Sweden. The Christian Democrats are represented in almost every municipality and region in Sweden.
The KD has previously heldsocially conservative views surrounding same sex marriage and in the early 2000s the party was criticized for being opposed to increased rights for homosexuals.[27][28] In 2007, the KD mostly voted against the introduction ofsame-sex marriage in parliament, with party leaderGöran Hägglund stating "my position is that I have been tasked by the party to argue that marriage is for men and women. When we discuss it between parties we are naturally open and sensitive to each other's arguments and we'll see if we can find a line that allows us to come together."[29] However, the party has since moderated its stance and now supports keeping same-sex marriage legal, albeit saying that churches should make the final decision on whether to perform wedding ceremonies and not the state, and in 2015 voted to change its platform in order to supportsame-sex adoption.[30]
As a member of theAlliance for Sweden, the winning side in the2006 general election, the Christian Democrats got three minister posts in theReinfeldt cabinet. The minister posts were held by Göran Hägglund, Mats Odell andMaria Larsson. Unlike theModerate Party and theLiberal People's Party, the Christian Democrats and theCentre Party avoided scandals for personal conduct and accusations for espionage against the competing Social Democratic Party.
Hägglund, however, received criticism internally for defending the party'spro-choice stance on abortion, which some older members believed had contributed to the decline of the party in recent years.[31] The Alliance cabinet's stance against unemployment and sick-listed benefits have been criticised by former party leader Alf Svensson, while theSven Otto Littorin of theModerate Party went into aggressive counterattack, but the Christian Democratic ministers were silent.[32]
Support of the Christian Democrats significantly declined in theEuropean elections of 2009, where the former party leader Alf Svensson got the party's sole seat in the European Parliament at the expense of the party's top candidateElla Bohlin. Though Bohlin had run her campaign with a focus on limiting alcohol and outlawingtraditional Swedish snuff,[33] Göran Hägglund stated in a speech two weeks after the elections that he wanted to "prohibit the prohibitions" and spoke about the difference between the values of the "people of reality" and the left-wing cultural elite.[34][35] Some claim that this was not followed up by any political suggestions in the2010 general election,[36] where the party declined once again. Hägglund was criticized for not being controversial enough by MPEbba Busch,[37] and it was suggested that around a quarter of the party's representatives would like him to resign.[38] Other commentators have suggested that the party's decrease in support has coincided with the rise of theSweden Democrats, who gained the support of socially and culturally conservative Swedish voters.[39]
The politics of theYoung Christian Democrats have shifted to the right in the past few years,[40] a change that has been attributed to many conservative ex-members of the Moderate Party joining the organization.[41] Swedish political news magazineFokus has stated that the conflict on traditional Christian moral questions (abortion, gay rights, stem cell research) is secondary to the conflict between those who want aChristian democratic andcentrist party focused onsocial responsibility in addition toenvironmental questions, and those who want a traditionalright-wing party focusing onpopulism andeconomic liberalism.[42] The latter group has founded a network called FFFF (Freedom, family, diligence and enterprise), a group that has clear influences coming fromThatcherism.[42] Christian Democratic youth leaderAron Modig has stated that he wants the Christian Democrats to become the "Tea Party" of Sweden, and push the government when it fails to present a likeminded vision of society.[43]
In 2015, the young deputy Mayor of Uppsala Ebba Busch was elected as new party leader. She moved the party towards a new more right-wing and secular position. In the2018 election she showed herself to be a fierce debater lifting her party from what had been predicted as a sure defeat to the best election result in nearly 20 years.
In 2019, after the newgovernment was announced the KD harshly criticized the incoming government and the liberal parties supporting it. To create an alternative to the center-left government the KD opened up to cooperation with theSweden Democrats[44] This move was popular with the voters and during this period the party saw continually increased support in the opinion polls.
Ahead of theEuropean election the party had reached 13% in the opinion polls, which if it would have been the election result would be the best result for the Christian Democracts ever.[45] This passed after the election when theSwedish newspaperDagens Nyheter posted an article showing the KD’sMEPLars Adaktusson voting no to the expansion ofabortion rights 22 times while he sat in theEuropean Parliament between 2014 and 2019.[46] The situation for the party worsened during theCOVID-19 pandemic where, as in most other countries, smaller opposition parties saw a decrease whilst thegovernments strengthened their support.
Ahead of the 2022 election, the Christian Democrats continued the party's turn to the right in a number of issues. Inmigration the party advocates a reduction in the number of refugees let into Sweden by 70%.[47] The party's youth wing,KDU, went out and caused a stir after they proposedrepatriation of migrants that have come, and that are coming, toSweden.[48] Ahead of theFolk och Försvar conference in 2020 the party proposed a doubling of the Swedish Defence budget so that it would meet the 2% of GDP spending each year.[49]
During the 2022 election campaign, the party tried to grow by attracting Sweden's rural voters introducing new policies within the area as well as criticizing both the historically agrarianCentre Party and theSocial Democrats, accusing them of having abandoned rural Sweden.[50] The party also recruited former parliamentarian for theCentre Party,Staffan Danielsson and made him head of a party-associated organisation for farmers.[51] Their opponents answered these attacks by calling the KD populist - criticising the use of anti-elitist rhetoric and for unhistorical references to a "made up" Swedish heartland.
The election was not a success for the Christian Democrats losing three MP:s. But as a part of the overall center-right coalition that Ebba Busch had been instrumental in creating the party joined the newKristersson cabinet. The party received six ministerial portfolios and Ebba Busch was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister.
Historically, a large part of its voter base lays among those who belong toevangelical fellowships known in Sweden asfree churches (Pentecostals,Methodists,Baptists, etc.) together with likemindedLutherans (such asGöran Hägglund andMats Odell). These churches havemany followers inSmåland and along the Swedish west coast,[52] the regions in which the party is politically strongest. Important voter groups aresenior citizens,families, voters inrural areas,[53] members offree churches and citizens that belong to theupper middle class.
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Birger Ekstedt | 75,389 | 1.8 (#6) | 0 / 233 | New | No seats |
| 1968 | 72,377 | 1.5 (#7) | 0 / 233 |  | No seats | |
| 1970 | 88,770 | 1.8 (#6) | 0 / 350 | | No seats | |
| 1973 | Alf Svensson | 90,388 | 1.8 (#6) | 0 / 350 | | No seats |
| 1976 | 73,844 | 1.4 (#6) | 0 / 349 | | No seats | |
| 1979 | 75,993 | 1.4 (#6) | 0 / 349 | | No seats | |
| 1982 | 103,820 | 1.9 (#6) | 0 / 349 | | No seats | |
| 1985[a] | 131,548 | 2.4 (#6) | 1 / 349 |  1 | Opposition | |
| 1988 | 158,182 | 2.9 (#7) | 0 / 349 | 1 | No seats | |
| 1991 | 390,351 | 7.1 (#5) | 26 / 349 | 26 | Coalition | |
| 1994 | 225,974 | 4.1 (#7) | 15 / 349 | 11 | Opposition | |
| 1998 | 618,033 | 11.7 (#4) | 42 / 349 | 27 | Opposition | |
| 2002 | 485,235 | 9.2 (#4) | 33 / 349 | 9 | Opposition | |
| 2006 | Göran Hägglund | 365,998 | 6.6 (#5) | 24 / 349 | 9 | Coalition |
| 2010 | 333,696 | 5.6 (#8) | 19 / 349 | 5 | Coalition | |
| 2014 | 284,806 | 4.6 (#8) | 16 / 349 | 3 | Opposition | |
| 2018 | Ebba Busch | 409,478 | 6.3 (#6) | 22 / 349 | 6 | Opposition |
| 2022 | 345,712 | 5.3 (#6) | 19 / 349 | 3 | Coalition |
| Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 68,890 | 1.9 | 1 / 1,513 | 1 |
| 1970 | 86,513 | 1.9 | 2 / 1,524 | 1 |
| 1973 | 96,42 | 2.1 | 8 / 1,519 | 6 |
| 1976 | 97,62 | 1.9 | 8 / 1,683 | |
| 1979 | 102,801 | 2.0 | 12 / 1,705 | 4 |
| 1982 | 123,588 | 2.4 | 21 / 1,717 | 9 |
| 1985 | 102,661 | 2.0 | 18 / 1,733 | 3 |
| 1988 | 151,323 | 3.1 | 40 / 1,743 | 22 |
| 1991 | 348,763 | 7.0 | 132 / 1,763 | 92 |
| 1994 | 191,004 | 3.7 | 58 / 1,777 | 74 |
| 1998 | 516,813 | 10.0 | 168 / 1,646 | 110 |
| 2002 | 428,804 | 8.2 | 141 / 1,656 | 27 |
| 2006 | 360,183 | 6.6 | 116 / 1,656 | 25 |
| 2010 | 268,126 | 5.0 | 82 / 1,662 | 34 |
| 2014 | 317,270 | 5.2 | 85 / 1,678 | 3 |
| 2018 | 457,679 | 7.1 | 119 / 1,696 | 34 |
| 2022 | 469,033 | 7.3 | 133 / 1,720 | 15 |
| Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 66,551 | 1.5 | 353 / 29,546 | 353 |
| 1970 | 91,201 | 1.8 | 286 / 18,327 | 67 |
| 1973 | 106,355 | 2.1 | 250 / 13,236 | 36 |
| 1976 | 108,557 | 2.0 | 237 / 13,247 | 13 |
| 1979 | 115,478 | 2.1 | 276 / 13,369 | 39 |
| 1982 | 136,494 | 2.4 | 326 / 13,500 | 50 |
| 1985 | 113,292 | 2.0 | 278 / 13,520 | 48 |
| 1988 | 152,427 | 2.8 | 360 / 13,564 | 82 |
| 1991 | 318,762 | 5.8 | 815 / 13,526 | 455 |
| 1994 | 180,264 | 3.2 | 425 / 13,550 | 390 |
| 1998 | 421,783 | 8.0 | 1,069 / 13,388 | 644 |
| 2002 | 376,657 | 7.0 | 1,013 / 13,274 | 56 |
| 2006 | 320,027 | 5.8 | 813 / 13,092 | 200 |
| 2010 | 257,919 | 4.3 | 591 / 12,978 | 222 |
| 2014 | 248,070 | 4.0 | 515 / 12,780 | 76 |
| 2018 | 339,375 | 5.2 | 676 / 12,700 | 161 |
| 2022 | 348,420 | 5.4 | 755 / 12,614 | 79 |
| Election | List leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | EP Group |
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| 1995 | Unclear | 105,173 | 3.92 (#7) | 0 / 22 | New | − |
| 1999 | Anders Wijkman | 193,354 | 7.64 (#6) | 2 / 22 | 2 | EPP-ED |
| 2004 | 142,704 | 5.68 (#8) | 1 / 19 | 1 | ||
| 2009 2011 | Ella Bohlin | 148,141 | 4.68 (#8) | 1 / 18 1 / 20 | | EPP |
| 2014 | Lars Adaktusson | 220,574 | 5.93 (#8) | 1 / 20 | | |
| 2019 2020 | Sara Skyttedal | 357,856 | 8.62 (#6) | 2 / 20 2 / 21 | 1 | |
| 2024 | Alice Teodorescu | 239,530 | 5.71 (#7) | 1 / 21 | 1 |
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| 1964–1972 | Birger Ekstedt |
| 1973–2004 | Alf Svensson |
| 2004–2015 | Göran Hägglund |
| 2015–present | Ebba Busch |
| 1964-1968 | Lewi Pethrus |
| 1968–1979 | Åke Gafvelin |
| 1979–1982 | Ernst Johansson |
| 1982–1985 | Maj-Lis Palo |
| 1985–1993 | Jan Erik Ågren |
| 1993–2003 | Inger Davidson |
| 2003–2015 | Maria Larsson |
| 2015–present | Jakob Forssmed |
| 1965–1976 | Sven Enlund |
| 1976–1979 | Jona Eriksson |
| 1979–1982 | Maj-Lis Palo |
| 1982–1987 | Stig Nyman |
| 1987–1989 | Rose-Marie Frebran |
| 1989–1990 | Britt-Marie Laurell |
| 1990–1993 | Ingrid Näslund |
| 1993–2003 | Anders Andersson |
| 2003–2004 | Göran Hägglund |
| 2004–2012 | Mats Odell (Minister of Communications 1991–1994) |
| 2012–2015 | David Lega (MEP 2019-) |
| 2015–2017 | Emma Henriksson |
| 2017–2019 | Lars Adaktusson |
| 2019– | Bengt Germundsson |
| 1964–1972 | Bertil Carlsson |
| 1972–1978 | Stig Nyman |
| 1978–1985 | Per Egon Johansson |
| 1985–1989 | Dan Ericsson |
| 1989–1991 | Inger Davidson (Minister of civil infrastructure 1991–1994) |
| 1991–1993 | Lars Lindén (MP 2002–2008) |
| 1994–2002 | Sven Gunnar Persson (MP 2002–2008) |
| 2002–2006 | Urban Svensson |
| 2006–2010 | Lennart Sjögren |
| 2010–2018 | Acko Ankarberg Johansson |
| 2018–2022 | Peter Kullgren |
| 2022–2023 | Johan Ingerö |
| 2023–present | Liza-Maria Norlin |
| 1991–2002 | Göran Hägglund |
| 2002–2010 | Stefan Attefall |
| 2010–2012 | Mats Odell |
| 2012–2015 | Emma Henriksson |
| 2015–2022 | Andreas Carlson |
| 2022–present | Camilla Brodin |
The party is a member of theEuropean People's Party (EPP), theCentrist Democrat International (CDI), and theInternational Democracy Union (IDU).
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