, 69 years-old, was an MEP from 1999 to 2004 and now returns from retirement for another turn in the EU Parliament. She prioritises political matters on food safety, animal welfare, agriculture, forest management and public health.
The Left Party is currently the only of the established parties who still wants Sweden to leave the European Union. They want to fight for trade union rights in the EU Parliament and protect the Swedish collective labour agreement. Welfare and agricultural politics is a national matter, climate policy shall be prioritised and immigration policy should be eased, they propose.
Eva-Britt Svensson, 62 years-old, is a political secretary and top candidate for the Left Party. Her main issues concerns feminism, welfare, the environment and transparency. Also trade union rights are an important matter for Svensson.
Hanna Löfqvist, 32 years-old, is a political secretary who wants to fight tendencies of supranationalism in EU and defend the Swedish collective labour agreement. She also promotes women’s rights, equality and regulation of the European inner market.
According to the Koho Volit Project the Left Party are together with the Green Party the Swedish party most to the traditional left in the Parliament and lean to a centralist view on EU. They belong to the GUE/NGL Group.
Pirate Party
(Piratpartiet)
The Pirate Party takes a strong position against ‘The Big Brother Society’, with surveillance by the state, computer storage and laws who violate personal integrity. They want to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system, and ensure that citizens´ rights to privacy are respected.
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| Christian Engström. |
Christian Engström, 49 years-old, is an entrepreneur and activist who is the top candidate for the Pirate Party in the election to the EU Parliament. He wants to fight for freedom on the internet and an open and democratic society. He believes that culture and knowledge should be free.
Amelia Andersdotter, 21 years-old, is a student who wants to balance copyright regulations, increase transparency in the EU and among else abolish patent on medications.
The Pirate Party does so far not belong to any group in the European Parliament. Their strategy is to enter the party group who can promise them the most influence for their main issues, they will vote as that group on all other issues.
Centre Party
(Centerpartiet)
The Centre Party wants to have an open, tolerant, welcoming and humane EU where man and his inviolable freedom come first. They want to increase the use of renewable energy, while using energy more efficiently at the same time. The Centre Party also think that the business climate must be improved for small and medium-sized companies.
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| Lena EK. |
Lena Ek, 51 years-old, has been a MEP since 2004. Her main political issues in the EU Parliament are peace and security, climate policy and environmental issues, protection of human rights and mobility in Europe.
Kent Johansson, 58 years-old, is currently county commissioner. He wants to see more co-operation in the EU when it comes to the environment and climate. He also wants to influence matters on agriculture, the structural funds and fishing.
According to the
Koho Volit Project the Centre Party are right-to-centre on the traditional left-right scale and lean to a centralist view on EU. They belong to the ADLE Group.
Christian Democrats
(Kristdemokraterna)
The campaign slogan of the Christian Democrats is ’Our route to a safe Europe’. They want public health to be coordinated at an EU level and take measures to reduce the consequences of alcohol use. The EU must put a larger portion of its budget into measures to stop climate change, play a more active role in order to resolve the financial crisis and have a more humane immigration policy, they think.
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Ella Bohlin.
Photo: Kristdemokraterna |
Ella Bohlin, 30 years-old, want to work with issues concerning the labour market, food safety and the environment. Other affairs of the heart are reduction of alcohol injuries and criminalisation of sexual services.
Sofia Modigh, 38 years-old, is an opinion-maker of the Swedish temperance movement. Her main political issues are public health, alcohol and drug restriction, consumer power and food safety.
According to the Koho Volit Project the Christian Democrats are right-to-centre on the traditional left-right scale and lean to a centralist view on EU. They belong to the EPP-ED Group.
Sweden Democrats
(Sverigedemokraterna)
The Sweden Democrats wants to support and return to ‘the firmly established, intergovernmental European co-operation based on democracy, voluntarism, bilateral respect and agreement’. They want Sweden to leave the union, want ´a responsible immigration policy´, opposes a possible membership of Turkey and want tougher boarder control.
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Sven-Olof Sällström.
Photo: Björn Bergman |
Sven-Olof Sällström, 40 years-old, is a shop manager who is the top candidate for the Sweden Democrats to the EU Parliament. His main political issue is for Sweden to leave the union in order to uphold the national sovereignty, the Swedish state, the Swedish language and the Swedish culture.
If the Sweden Democrats get enough votes to enter the EU Parliament they will join the AEN Group.
June List
(Junilistan)
The June List is a EU sceptic cross-party who wants the EU to work with border-crossing environmental problems and make it easier to travel and make business between the EU member countries. They also work for economic efficiency when it comes to the unions spending and they want to half the amount the member countries pay.
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| Sören Wibe. |
Sören Wibe, 62 years-old, is a professor and former politician of the Social Democratic Party. He wants to reform the European Union in order to make the democratic elements stronger. He want political matters to be handled as close to the voters as possible.
According to the Koho Volit Project the June List are the Swedish Party who have the most decentralist view on the EU and has been represented on both sides of the traditional left-right scale. They belong to the IND/DEM Group.
Feminist Initiative
(Feministiskt Initiativ)
The Feminist Initiative believes that the EU needs policies who strengthen the rights of women and counteract all forms of discrimination. They want to expand social reforms, modernise family legislation, secure the right to abortion, criminalise sexual services and promote EU as an secular state form.
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Gudryn Schyman.
Photo: Stefan Borgius |
Gudrun Schyman, 60 years-old, is the former party leader for the Left Party who nowadays is the leading voice of Feminist Initiative. She want to work with defending the right to unionize, act for the right to abortion to be defined as a human right and stop the militarization of the EU.
Note
This guide was organised in the way that the different parties are listed in the order they received voter support in the latest opinion survey by polling company SIFO, May 30th. Three top candidates are shown for the two major parties, one candidate for the three smallest parties and two candidates for the rest.
Result of the SIFO poll
| Social Dem. |
31.7% |
| Moderate Party |
22.6% |
| Green Party |
10.2% |
| Liberal P. Party |
10.1% |
| Left Party |
6.5% |
| Pirate Party |
6% |
| Centre Party |
5.2% |
| Christian Dem. |
3.1% |
| Sweden Dem. |
2.3% |
| June List |
1.9% |
This would lead to the following distribution of seats
| Social Dem. |
6 |
| Moderate Party |
5 |
| Green Party |
2 |
| Liberal P. Party |
2 |
| Left Party |
1 |
| Pirate Party |
1 |
| Centre Party |
1 |
| Christian Dem. |
0 |
| Sweden Dem. |
0 |
| June List |
0 |
Sources: Swedish Election Authority, the different parties, SIFO, kohovolit.eu and Peter J Olsson, political editor at newspaper Kvällsposten.