Feminist Initiative (Sweden)
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Feminist Initiative
Feministiskt initiativ |
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| Abbreviation | FI |
| Spokesperson | Gudrun Schyman, Victoria Kawesa |
| Founded | 4 April 2005 |
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| Youth wing | Young Feminists |
| Membership |
 20,000 (2015) |
| Ideology |
Feminism Radical feminism Anti-racism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| European affiliation | European Feminist Parties Coordination Board |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Colours | Pink |
| Riksdag |
0 / 349
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| European Parliament |
1 / 20
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| County councils |
0 / 1,597
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| Municipal councils |
26 / 12,780
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| Website | |
| www |
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Feminist Initiative (Swedish: Feministiskt initiativ, abbreviated FI, Fi or F!) is a feminist political party in Sweden. The party was formed (from a previous pressure group of the same name) in 2005, and announced on 9 September 2005 that it would put up candidates for the 2006 parliamentary elections in Sweden.
After running in the consequent two Riksdag elections, as well as the European Parliamentary election of 2009, Fi had not taken any seats in either parliament. The European elections of 2014 proved a turning point, as the party attracted 5.3% of the Swedish vote, with Soraya Post taking one seat in the European Parliament. This marks the first time an exclusively feminist political party won a seat in the European Parliament.
In the 2014 general election, Fi received a best-ever 3.1% of the vote; despite not meeting the 4.0% threshold for getting seats, Fi became the most popular party outside of parliament.
The original pressure group was presented at a press conference in on 4 April 2005. The announcement was preceded by a large number of rumours of a new feminist party. In particular, the rumours were concerned with the growing feminist movement around Gudrun Schyman, a former leader of the Swedish Left Party and at that time independent member of the Riksdag.
Schyman is one of Sweden's most prominent political feminists and had attracted attention when she in 2004 asked how society and men would take responsibility for the violence against women. This question came in the form of an investigation, which was dubbed "man tax" by Swedish journalists since they assumed that was how the problem would be resolved.
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