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persons hesitate to start families. Many people’s lives are darkened by discrimination and intolerance. There are too many people in Sweden who are denied a share of progress. The efforts of Social Democracy since 1997 have above all been concentrated on the fight against unemployment. People’s work lays the foundations of welfare. Full employment is our objective. Social Democratic growth policy is based on the right to meaningful employment. Social Democracy will always be ready to combat rising unemployment. Our economic policy has been aimed at creating an economy which can cope with cyclic fluctuations without people having to be affected by sudden spending cuts devastating the domestic budget or the quality of welfare. Today we can parry an international downturn with a strong economy and without needing to pack down on reforms already promised for greater justice and security. The task of strengthening welfare can – and must – continue everywhere in the country. Although great efforts have been made as unemployment has fallen and common resources have grown, great deficiencies still exist. Social Democracy is a movement of social criticism. Believing strongly in change, in the possibilities of improvement, we are permanently opposed to social injustice. It is inequalities and injustices that limit people’s liberty, cut off their chances in life, stifling the dreams and ambitions of hundreds of thousands of individuals. Injustice is incompatible with our basic vision. All people are of equal worth. We all live here by the same right. And so we must all live here on equal terms. Nor is injustice compatible with a modern view of development. If we shrink the opportunities available to large parts of the population, we will be shrinking our combined capacity to create a better Sweden. We are living at a time when development is moving faster than ever. We are living in a strongly internationalised economic environment. In Sweden, just as elsewhere in 92
Europe, the trend is towards growing numbers of elderly people in the population, at the same time as too few children are being born. The level of stress in our society is far too high and this must be altered if galloping ill health is to be curbed. We know that our children’s future living conditions will depend on the size of the steps which we are able to take towards an ecological readjustment, on whether we can succeed in building a green home for the nation. These and other challenges demand changes. Changes in our way of thinking and behaving – in everyday life as well as in politics. We are living in the midst of change, with all our needs and wishes, our successes and defeats, our happiness, our curiosity and determination to be useful, our inadequacy, our strength and power. In a time of change we all need security. It is in security that freedom grows. It is security that emboldens people. This is why we are safeguarding an efficient welfare model. It is why we warn against a policy which despises politics and dismantles democratic influence, which unleashes the profit motive and market forces on important sectors of welfare. To us Social Democrats, man is the objective. Human emancipation is the purpose of politics. This calls for a society which enables everyone to fare well in life. 93
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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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atio in connection with the first e
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The Centre Party 20 Centerpartiet
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22 In this year’s election Maud w
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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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The Christian Democratic Party 30 K
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32 and, of course, bandy. He has be
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has about 24,000 members and organi
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Important topics for the 2002 elect
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training capacity, better working c
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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
Page 59 and 60: profit considerations. The same goe
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Page 64 and 65: The Liberal Party 64 Folkpartiet Li
Page 66 and 67: History of the Liberal Party In 189
Page 68 and 69: The following is the Liberal Party
Page 70 and 71: Disabled care v Restore the right t
Page 72: 72 Names and addresses Party Headqu
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 81 and 82: The party election manifesto adopte
Page 83 and 84: will not be worth so much. It is ob
Page 86 and 87: The Social Democratic Party 86 Soci
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Page 90 and 91: founded in 1992. It succeeded the C
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Page 97 and 98: Press Centre for foreign correspond
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