Election Guide 2002 - Sweden.se

had had a Prime Minister belonging to our party. That
government realised many of the demands which had
evolved. The pressure of taxation was reduced. The care
allowance enabled parents to choose their child care
arrangements for themselves. The school voucher
enabled parents and pupils to choose schools. The family
doctor reform gave patients the opportunity of choosing
their doctor. The three years of non-socialist government
added up to a revolution of free choice.
But the non-socialist administration also had many
difficult problems to cope with. The Social Democrats
had left behind them an economy in free fall and
dramatically rising unemployment. Conditions for
business enterprise were improved by means of
deregulations and tax cuts, and in this way the trend was
successfully reversed. Sweden was restored to growth
and the number of jobs increased. But the trend
inflection and the upturn came too late to have a real
impact on the electorate.
After the 1994 election Sweden once again found itself
with a Social Democratic government. That government
has pursued a policy of reinstatement whereby many of
the problems which the non-socialist government was
in the process of solving – poor growth and high
unemployment, for example – have now been made
permanent.
As the largest non-socialist party, we feel it is our
responsibility to shape a better alternative than the
policy of the Social Democratic government. In the
budget proposals presented in the spring of 2002, we
show the policy we wish to pursue for the sake of liberty,
economic growth and greater prosperity.
Organisation
The party’s supreme policy-making body is the Party
Congress, which meets every two years. At alternate
Party Congresses (i.e. every four years) a 13-member
Party Executive is elected. This Executive, of which the
chairpersons of the Moderate Women and the Moderate
Party Youth League are ex officio members, is the party’s
supreme decision-making body between congresses.
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