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The parliamentary Moderate Party, numbering 82 members, has an Executive of its own, comprising 13 members. The parliamentary group is also divided into 16 committees, matching the committees of the Riksdag. Each committee consists mainly of party members and alternates from the corresponding committee and (at least) one political officer from our parliamentary office. At regional level we have Moderate Federations, corresponding on the whole to county boundaries (though the county of Stockholm has one federation for the city of Stockholm and one for the rest of the county, Skåne has three federations and West Götaland has four, matching the old county boundaries). Each federation has an executive elected at the annual federation conference. At municipal (local government) level we have party associations which, in some large communities where there are several such associations, are grouped into constituency organisations. The party associations hold annual meetings at which association executives are elected. The national party organisation (RO) has upwards of a hundred employees. RO consists of the Political Division, the International Division, the Brussels Office, the Riksdag Office, the Organisation and Campaign Division, the Press and Information Division and the Financial and Administrative Division. The county federations have offices of their own with between one or about ten employees, depending on the size of the federation concerned. The party associations can seldom afford to pay staff and instead are run by volunteers on a spare-time basis. The Moderates have a special women’s network, called Moderate Women. The Moderate Party Youth League (MUF) is organised on the same lines as the party itself, with a central executive elected by a national conference. At regional level the League is divided into districts, with separate MUF associations for individual localities. The foundation of the party organisation is its members who (if we include the Moderate Party Youth League) total about 80,000. 80
The party election manifesto adopted before each election and setting out our pledges for the coming term of office, is adopted by the Party Executive. The parliamentary group is assisted by the Riksdag Office, which is headed by an Administrative Director and an Assistant Administrative Director and otherwise consists of a number of Political Officers, a secretarial staff and a caretaker. At the European Parliament in Brussels we have an Administrative Director and five political officers (assisting the party’s MEPs) and a small press department with a staff of two. The parliamentary group, the parliamentary group executive, the committees and the Riksdag Office are responsible for observation of day-to-day political affairs. More overarching, long-term policy is the responsibility of the party executive and the party’s political division. The political division also includes handling officers for municipal and county council policy who assist in coordinating the party’s policies at local and regional levels. The party publishes a membership journal, Medborgaren, which appears eight times annually. There is also Svensk Tidskrift, which is published by a separate foundation but makes no secret of being very closely allied with the Moderates. Political ideas The core of Moderate policy is the liberty of the individual. The state must never do things which individual persons – alone or together with others – can do just as well or even better. Anyone wishing to reduce other people’s freedom must show justification for doing so. Accordingly, it is not a person wishing to retain their money who must explain why, it is the person wishing to spend other people’s money who must prove the necessity of doing so. Sweden has the world’s highest taxes. We want to reduce them substantially. Today hundreds of thousands of people with jobs still have to depend on public handouts in order to make ends meet. We maintain that people 81
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Contents Foreword..................
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The Swedish political system Histor
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After the general election in 1994,
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The political parties The seven par
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Local government Swedish democracy
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equired to give advance notice of p
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The Centre Party 20 Centerpartiet
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Equal conditions are a prerequisite
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5. Equal development opportunities
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28 Centre Party endorses the Riksda
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Page 34 and 35: has about 24,000 members and organi
Page 36 and 37: Important topics for the 2002 elect
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Page 40: 40 Names and addresses Party Headqu
Page 43 and 44: Maria Wetterstrand Maria Wetterstra
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Page 49 and 50: 17. Better terms for animals! We de
Page 51 and 52: 30. Cancel Third World debts and in
Page 53 and 54: Names and addresses National Office
Page 55 and 56: Gudrun Schyman Gudrun Schyman is on
Page 57 and 58: legislation requiring large corpora
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Page 61 and 62: Names and addresses Party Headquart
Page 64 and 65: The Liberal Party 64 Folkpartiet Li
Page 66 and 67: History of the Liberal Party In 189
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Page 70 and 71: Disabled care v Restore the right t
Page 75 and 76: Bo Lundgren MP, Chairman of the Mod
Page 77 and 78: chaired by Carl Bildt - and the Eur
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Page 86 and 87: The Social Democratic Party 86 Soci
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