The Moderate Party (Swedish: Moderata samlingspartiet: "the Moderate Coalition Party", commonly referred to in Swedish as Moderaterna: "the Moderates") is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League (Swedish: Allmänna valmansförbundet) by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament. The party has had two other names during its history: the National Organizati...
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The Moderate Party (Swedish: Moderata samlingspartiet: "the Moderate Coalition Party", commonly referred to in Swedish as Moderaterna: "the Moderates") is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League (Swedish: Allmänna valmansförbundet) by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament. The party has had two other names during its history: the National Organization of the Right (Swedish: Högerns riksorganisation) (1938–1952) and the Rightist Party (Swedish: Högerpartiet) (1952–1969).
Following the 2006 general election, where the party gained 26.23% of the votes, the party forms the major part of the government together with the other parties in the centre-right Alliance for Sweden: the Centre Party, the Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats. The current chairman of the party is Fredrik Reinfeldt, who is also Prime Minister of Sweden.
The party was founded on 17 October 1904 in a...
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