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Membership of the Alliance

Alliance for Sweden consists of the four centre-right (Swedish: borgerlig, lit. "bourgeois") parties in the Riksdag (Sweden's parliament). The members are: Bourgeois at the end of the thirteenth century. ... A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modelled after that of the United Kingdom. ...

• The Moderate Party led by Fredrik Reinfeldt, a liberal conservative party currently with 97 of 349 seats (26.1%) in the Riksdag.
• The Centre Party led by Maud Olofsson, a centrist party currently with 29 of 349 seats (7.9%) in the Riksdag.
• The Liberal People's Party led by Jan Björklund, a social liberal party currently with 28 of 349 seats (7.5%) in the Riksdag.
• The Christian Democrats led by Göran Hägglund, a Christian democratic party currently with 24 of 349 seats (6.6%) in the Riksdag.

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History of the Alliance

Swedish politics has been dominated by the Social Democratic Party for over 70 years. They have been in government for all but nine years (summer of 1936, 1976-1982, 1991-1994) since 1932. The opposition parties decided that this was partly because they did not present a clear and viable alternative government. At a meeting held in the Centre Party leader Maud Olofsson's home in the village of Högfors, the four party leaders decided to form an alliance. The meeting ended on 31 August 2004 with the presentation of a joint declaration outlining the principles under which the four parties intended to fight the election [1]. A year later a similar meeting was held at Christian Democrat leader Göran Hägglund's home in Bankeryd, resulting in the affirmation of the alliance and another declaration [2]. Politics of Sweden takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Sweden is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. ... The Swedish Social Democratic Party, (Swedish: , Social Democratic Workers Party of Sweden), contests elections as Workers Party - Social Democrats (Arbetarepartiet-Socialdemokraterna), commonly referred to just as the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterna); is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. ... Meetings are sometimes held around conference tables. ... is the 243rd day of the year (244th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A declaration is a form of statement, which expresses (or declares) some idea; declarations attempt to argue that something is true. ...

Aims and Policies of the Alliance

Alliance for Sweden's press conference in Sundsvall during the bus tour of 6-7 March 2006. From left to right: Fredrik Reinfeldt, Maud Olofsson, Göran Hägglund and Lars Leijonborg. (Photo by Henrik Reinholdson)

Alliance for Sweden aimed to win a majority of seats in the 2006 Riksdag elections and form a coalition government. In order to do this, the member parties decided to issue common policy statements and to have a joint election manifesto. Each individual party still had its own manifesto and policies, but these will build up from common proposals in the Alliance's joint proposals. The Alliance has policy working groups for six areas: economic policy, education policy, foreign policy, the welfare state, employment and business policy, and policing [3]. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2304x1728, 694 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Alliance for Sweden Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2304x1728, 694 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Alliance for Sweden Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... Sundsvall is a city in lower Norrland, central Sweden, situated in the province of Medelpad and Västernorrland County. ... John Fredrik Reinfeldt (IPA: ) (born August 4, 1965, in Österhaninge) is the current Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party (Swedish: ). A native of Stockholm County, Reinfeldt joined the Moderate Youth League in 1983, and by 1992 had risen to the rank of chairman, a... Maud Olofsson Maud Olofsson (born Olsson, August 1955) is a Swedish politician and the current leader of the Centre Party of Sweden (Centerpartiet). ... Göran Hägglund Göran Hägglund (born January 27, 1959) is a Swedish politician and the current leader of the Christian Democrats of Sweden (Kristdemokraterna). ... Lars Leijonborg (born 1949) is a Swedish politician and the leader of the liberal Peoples Party. ... A majority is a subset of a group that is more than half of the entire group. ... A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a cabinet in parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. ... Look up policy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Economic policy refers to the actions that governments take in the economic field. ... Education policy refers to the collection of rules, both stated and implicit, or the regularities in practice that govern the behavior of persons in schools. ... A countrys foreign policy is a set of political goals that seeks to outline how that particular country will interact with other countries of the world and, to a lesser extent, non-state actors. ... There are three main interpretations of the idea of a welfare state: the provision of welfare services by the state. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In economics, a business is a legally-recognized organizational entity existing within an economically free country designed to sell goods and/or services to consumers, usually in an effort to generate profit. ...

An example of this policy cooperation was the budget proposal that the Alliance parties put forward on 2 October 2005. The core proposal was a tax cut of 49 billion Swedish kronor, which is 1.9% of GDP and 3.3% of the total income of the public sector in 2005 [4]. Each individual party also proposed its own policies in addition. For example, the Liberal People's Party want to spend 1bn kronor extra on tertiary education and the Christian Democrats want to have more benefits and tax deductions for families. Look up budget in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Swedish unit of currency. ... < [[[[math>Insert formula here</math>The public sector is that part of economic and administrative life that deals with the delivery of goods and services by and for the [[government </math></math></math></math> Direct administration funded through taxation; the delivering organisation generally has no specific requirement to meet commercial...

On 14 June 2006 Alliance for Sweden agreed a common energy policy. It will apply over the next parliamentary term (2006-2010), and includes a promise not to shut down any more nuclear reactors during that period (Barsebäck 2 was shut down in 2005). The proposal is that no more reactors are to be built, that the nuclear phase-out law will be repealed and that all forms of energy research will be legal and able to receive state grants (research on nuclear power is currently forbidden in Sweden). An Alliance government would also grant any applications to increase the output of the existing plants, provided that it would be safe to do so [5]. This has been hailed as a historic step, as disagreement over nuclear power has long plagued the centre-right in Sweden: the Centre Party opposes nuclear power, the Moderates and Christian Democrats support its continuing operation while the Liberal People's Party want to build more reactors. Some doubts have been raised about the long-term survival of this compromise, as neither the Centre Party nor the Liberal People's Party have changed their fundamental positions on nuclear power. June 14 is the 165th day of the year (166th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Core of a small nuclear reactor used for research. ... The Barsebäck nuclear power plant is a closed Swedish nuclear power plant situated in Barsebäck, Kävlinge Municipality, SkÃ¥ne. ... For fusion power, see Fusion power. ...

On 4 July 2006, during the politics week at Almedalen on Gotland, the Alliance parties announced a plan to abolish property tax. Their agreement promises to freeze taxable values at the current level (so that the revaluation that is being carried out will not apply), and to reduce the rate of tax on apartments from 0.5% to 0.4% of their taxable value [6]. A ceiling of 5000 kronor will also be imposed on the taxation of the value of a house's plot. The parties are also agreed on the abolition of the tax and its replacement with a municipal charge independent of the value of the property; this reform is planned to be carried out in 2008. Property tax is estimated to bring in 28.1 billion kronor in 2006, rising to 30.2bn in 2007 and 32.2bn in 2008 (as taxable values rise). The first stage of the Alliance's plan (freezing property values, capping the tax on land value and reducing the rate for apartments) is estimated to cost around 4-5 billion kronor. The financing of this is to be revealed in the Alliance's manifesto in August 2006. is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Almedalen Almedalen (in literal English translation: The Elm Valley) is a park in the Swedish city Visby on the island of Gotland, well known in Sweden as the central site of the Almedalen Week. ...   is a county, province and municipality of Sweden and the second largest island in the Baltic Sea after Zealand. ... Property tax, millage tax is an ad valorem tax that an owner of real estate or other property pays on the value of the property being taxed. ... This article is about the Swedish unit of currency. ... Look up manifesto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Alliance for Sweden released its election manifesto, entitled More people at work - more to share (Swedish: Fler i arbete - mer att dela på), on 23 August 2006. is the 235th day of the year (236th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The result of the election was clear enough on election night for Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt to declare himself the victor and for Göran Persson to announce his resignation as Prime Minister and as leader of the Social Democratic Party. The four centre-right parties of Alliance for Sweden formed a government with Fredrik Reinfeldt as Prime Minister, which was presented to the Riksdag on 6 October. The Moderate Party (Swedish: Moderata samlingspartiet: The Moderate Coalition Party, commonly referred to as Moderaterna: The Moderates) is a liberal conservative political party in Sweden. ... John Fredrik Reinfeldt (IPA: ) (born August 4, 1965, in Österhaninge) is the current Prime Minister of Sweden and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party (Swedish: ). A native of Stockholm County, Reinfeldt joined the Moderate Youth League in 1983, and by 1992 had risen to the rank of chairman, a... Hans Göran Persson ( ) (born January 20, 1949), was the thirty-first Prime Minister of Sweden (1996 – 2006). ... The Prime Minister (Swedish: , literally Minister of State) is the head of government in Sweden. ... The Swedish Social Democratic Party, (Swedish: , Social Democratic Workers Party of Sweden), contests elections as Workers Party - Social Democrats (Arbetarepartiet-Socialdemokraterna), commonly referred to just as the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterna); is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. ... The centre-right is a political term commonly used to describe or denote political parties or organizations (such as think tanks) that stretch from the centre to the right on the left-right spectrum, excluding far right stances. ... The parliament building from outside. ... is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Alliance in government

See also: Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt and Government of Sweden

Minister for Finance Anders Borg presented the government's first budget [7] on 16 October 2006. The budget contains many of the proposals that were prominent in the Alliance's election campaign: both the job deduction in the income tax, which will also be larger for old people to encourage them to remain in the labour market, and the "new start jobs" with reduced payroll tax for companies employing people who have been unemployed for more than a year will come into effect from 1 January 2007. Tax reductions for companies hiring young people and for domestic services are to come into effect on 1 July. The tax reductions announced in the budget total 42 billion Swedish kronor [8], of which the income tax deduction is 38.7 billion. Other changes include the ending of employers' co-financing of sickness benefit after the second week and reduction of unemployment benefit. Unemployment benefit will remain 80% of previous pay for 200 days then drop to 70%. Benefit will be payable for a maximum of 300 days, or 450 if the recipient has children. Fredrik Reinfeldt has served as Prime Minister of Sweden since October 6, 2006. ... The government of Sweden is a constitutional monarchy based on parliamentary democracy. ... The Ministry of Finance (Swedish: ) is a Swedish government ministry responsible for matters relating to economic policy, the central government budget, taxes, banking, security and insurance, international economic work, central, regional and local government. ... Anders Erik Borg, born 11 January 1968. ... is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Swedish unit of currency. ...

See also

• Sweden general election, 2006
• Government of Sweden
• Cabinet of Fredrik Reinfeldt

A general election will be held in Sweden on September 17, 2006 to elect members to the Riksdag. ... The government of Sweden is a constitutional monarchy based on parliamentary democracy. ... Fredrik Reinfeldt has served as Prime Minister of Sweden since October 6, 2006. ... The Moderate Party (Swedish: Moderata samlingspartiet: The Moderate Coalition Party, commonly referred to as Moderaterna: The Moderates) is a liberal conservative political party in Sweden. ... The Centre Party (Centerpartiet) is a political party in Sweden. ... The Liberal Party of Sweden (in Swedish: Folkpartiet liberalerna, abbreviated fp, meaning Peoples Party the Liberals) is a political party in Sweden. ... The Christian Democrats (Kristdemokraterna) is a political party in Sweden. ...

External links

• Alliance for Sweden - official website (Swedish)
• On the alliance - official website (in English) (English)
• Official website of the government of Sweden (English)
• Fler i arbete - mer att dela på - the Alliance's joint manifesto (Swedish)
• Putting Sweden to work - a good deal for all - the budget for 2007 (English)