Center Party (Sweden)
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Centre Party
Centerpartiet |
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| Abbreviation | C |
| Party chairman | Annie Lööf |
| House Leader | Anders W Jonsson |
| Founded | 2 March 1913 |
| Headquarters | Stora Nygatan 4, Gamla stan, |
| Youth wing | Centre Party Youth |
| Membership | 37,340 (2009) |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Green liberalism Agrarianism |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right |
| National affiliation | Alliance |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
| European Parliament group | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Colors | Green |
| Riksdag |
22 / 349
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| European Parliament |
1 / 20
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| County councils |
118 / 1,597
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| Municipal councils |
1,411 / 12,780
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| Website | |
| http://www.centerpartiet.se/ | |
The Centre Party (Swedish: Centerpartiet, abbreviated C) is a liberal and agrarianpolitical party in Sweden. Traditionally part of the Nordic agrarian family, the party has increasingly shifted its focus towards free market economics, environmental protection, gender equality and decentralisation of governmental authority. The Centre Party is a member of the centre-right coalition the Alliance with the Moderate Party, Liberal Party and the Christian Democrats. The party's major issues are national economy, environment and integration and they're represented in all of the Riksdags parliamentary commités.
The party was founded in 1913 as the Farmers' League (Swedish: Bondeförbundet). In 1922 it merged with the National Farmers' Union (Jordbrukarnas Riksförbund). The name of the party was changed from the Farmers' League in 1957. At that time it had been the closest ally of the Swedish Social Democratic Party for 25 years, and its coalition partners between 1936 and 1945 as well as between 1951 and 1957, but it has since revised this strategy in order to establish a closer long-term alliance between the centre-right (Swedish borgerlig, lit. "bourgeois" or "nonsocialist") parties, that achieved power between 1976 and 1982 and between 1991 and 1994. Thorbjörn Fälldin was the leader of the Centre Party and Prime Minister in 1976–1982, except a short interregnum in 1978–1979 by Liberal People's Party leader Ola Ullsten. The Centre Party again joined a centre-right government following the 1991 election led by Moderate Party leader Carl Bildt. During the leaderships of Maud Olofsson and Annie Lööf in the 2000s the party has positioned itself clearly on the political right as a small business-friendly party, leaning towards neoliberal and libertarian policies and viewing the Social Democrats as its main opponent.
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