Editing Moderate Party (section)

{{short description|Political party in Sweden}}
{{about|the centre-right political party in Sweden}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox political party
| name             = Moderate Party
| native_name      = Moderata samlingspartiet
| native_name_lang = sv
| logo             = M_v1.svg
| logo_size        = 125
| colorcode        = {{Political party data|color}}
| abbreviation     = M
| leader           = 
| chairperson      = [[Ulf Kristersson]]
| secretary        = [[Karin Enström]]
| leader3_title    = [[Parliamentary group leader]]
| leader3_name     = [[Mattias Karlsson (politician, born 1972)|Mattias Karlsson]]
| founded          = {{start date and age|1904|10|17|df=y}}
| headquarters     = Blasieholmsgatan 4 A, [[Norrmalm]], [[Stockholm]]
| student_wing     = [[Moderate Students]] (official)<br />[[Confederation of Swedish Conservative and Liberal Students]] (unofficial)
| youth_wing       = [[Moderate Youth League]]
| wing3_title      = LGBT wing
| wing3            = [[Open Moderates]]
| membership_year  = 2023
| membership       = {{decrease}} 46,501<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=2024-10-13 |title=Medlemsras för Liberalerna – störst tapp bland riksdagspartierna |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/medlemsras-for-liberalerna-storst-tapp-bland-riksdagspartierna |access-date=2024-10-13 |work=SVT Nyheter |language=sv}}</ref>
| ideology         = [[Liberal conservatism]]
| position         = [[Centre-right politics|Centre-right]]
| european         = [[European People's Party]]
| international    = [[International Democracy Union]]
| europarl         = [[European People's Party Group]]
| affiliation1_title = Nordic affiliation
| affiliation1     = [[Conservative Group]]
| colours          = {{ublist
 | {{colour box|#21409a|border=darkgray}} Dark blue (official){{efn|Since 2019}}
 | {{colour box|#8ed9f8|border=darkgray}} Light blue
 | {{colour box|{{party color|Moderate Party}}|border=darkgray}} Sky blue (customary)
}}
| slogan           = {{lang|sv|Säkrare, grönare, friare}} ('Safer, Greener, Freer')<ref>{{cite web | title=Säkrare, grönare, friare – hundratals moderater utvecklar politiken | website=Moderaterna | date=2023-02-01 | url=https://moderaterna.se/nyhet/politikutveckling/ | language=sv | access-date=2023-06-10 | archive-date=10 June 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610145716/https://moderaterna.se/nyhet/politikutveckling/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
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| seats1_title     = [[Riksdag]]
| seats1           = {{Political party data|seat composition bar|ms-lower-house}}
| seats2_title     = [[European Parliament]]
| seats2           = {{Political party data|seat composition bar|EP}}
| seats3_title     = [[County councils of Sweden|County councils]]<ref name="mandat2022"></ref>
| seats3           = {{composition bar|328|1720|{{party color|Moderate Party}}}}
| seats4_title     = [[Municipal council (Sweden)|Municipal councils]]<ref name="mandat2022">{{cite web |url=https://www.val.se/valresultat/riksdag-region-och-kommun/2022/radata-och-statistik.html#mandatfordelning |language=sv |website=Valmyndigheten |date=8 March 2024 |access-date=2024-03-08 |title=Rådata och statistik |archive-date=11 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311071759/https://www.val.se/valresultat/riksdag-region-och-kommun/2022/radata-och-statistik.html#mandatfordelning |url-status=live }}</ref>
| seats4           = {{composition bar|2584|12614|{{party color|Moderate Party}}}}
| website          = {{Political party data|website}}
| country          = Sweden
}}

The '''Moderate Party''' ({{langx|sv|Moderata samlingspartiet}} {{IPA|sv|mʊdɛˈrɑ̌ːta ˈsâmːlɪŋspaˌʈiːɛt||Sv-Moderata samlingspartiet.ogg}},<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Moderate Youth League|url=https://muf.se/english/|access-date=2021-05-15|website=Moderata Ungdomsförbundet (MUF)|language=en|archive-date=15 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515010310/https://muf.se/english/|url-status=live}}</ref> {{lit|Moderate Coalition Party}}, '''M'''), commonly referred to as the '''Moderates''' ({{langx|sv|Moderaterna}} {{IPA|sv|mʊdɛˈrɑ̌ːtɛɳa||Sv-Moderaterna.ogg}}), is a [[Liberal conservatism|liberal-conservative]]<ref name="liberal-conservative">*{{cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/sweden.html|title=Sweden|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|first=Wolfram|last=Nordsieck|year=2018|access-date=31 August 2018|archive-date=26 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226040526/http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/sweden.html|url-status=live}}
*{{cite book|author=Peter Viggo Jakobsen|title=Nordic Approaches to Peace Operations: A New Model in the Making?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YcYNhfJvn08C&pg=PA184|year=2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-38360-8|page=184}}
*{{cite book|author=Anja Timm|editor1=Christina Garsten|editor2=Monica Lindh De Montoya|title=Transparency in a New Global Order: Unveiling Organizational Visions|chapter=Practices of Transparency: exporting Swedish business culture to the Baltic states|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-TWXZ32omYC&pg=PA43|year=2008|publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing|isbn=978-1-84844-135-4|page=43}}
*{{cite book|author=Björn Wittrock|editor1=Johann Pall Arnason|editor2=Bjorn Wittrock|title=Nordic Paths to Modernity|chapter=The Making of Sweden|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y9GgSuCDCeUC&pg=PA104|year=2012|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-0-85745-270-2|page=104}}
*{{cite book|author=Hariz Halilovich|title=Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6VlFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA208|year=2013|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-0-85745-777-6|page=208}}</ref> [[List of political parties in Sweden|political party]] in [[Sweden]]. The party generally supports [[tax cut]]s, the [[free market]], [[civil liberties]] and [[economic liberalism]].<ref name="MisgeldMolin2010">{{cite book|author1=Klaus Misgeld|author2=Karl Molin|title=Creating Social Democracy: A Century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in Sweden|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbFpEU-FfbAC&pg=PA430|year=2010|publisher=Penn State Press|isbn=978-0-271-04344-9|page=430}}</ref> Globally, it is a full member of the [[International Democracy Union]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idu.org/member.aspx |title=Member Parties |access-date=2013-08-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701142810/http://www.idu.org/member.aspx |archive-date=1 July 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref> and the [[European People's Party]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.epp.eu/member-parties |title=Member Parties |access-date=2016-05-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504032123/http://www.epp.eu/member-parties/ |archive-date=4 May 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

The party was founded in 1904 as the '''General Electoral League''' ({{lang|sv|Allmänna valmansförbundet}} {{IPA|sv|ˈâlːmɛnːa ˈvɑ̂ːlmansfœrˌbɵndɛt||Sv-Allmänna valmansförbundet.ogg}}) by a group of [[conservatives]] in the [[Riksdag]], the Swedish parliament. The party was later known as '''The Right''' ({{lang|sv|Högern}} {{IPA|sv|ˈhø̌ːɡɛɳ||Sv-Högern.ogg}}; 1938–1952) and '''Right Party''' ({{lang|sv|Högerpartiet}} {{IPA|sv|ˈhø̂ːɡɛrpaˌʈiːɛt||Sv-Högerpartiet.ogg}}; 1952–1969).<ref>"Det konservativa partiet gick bakåt ända fram till 1950-talet, nu med namnet Högern (1934–52) och Högerpartiet (1952–69)." which translates approximately to "The conservative party decreased all the way until the 1950s, now under the name The Right (1934-52) and The Right (Wing) Party (1952-69)" - at [http://popularhistoria.se/artiklar/partiernas-histora-moderaterna/]</ref> During this time, the party was usually called the Conservative Party outside of Sweden.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

After holding minor posts in [[centre-right]] governments, the Moderates eventually became the leading opposition party to the [[Swedish Social Democratic Party]] and since then those two parties have dominated Swedish politics. After the [[1991 Swedish general election]], party leader [[Carl Bildt]] formed a minority government, the first administration since 1930 to be headed by a member of the party, which lasted three years. The party returned to government under leader and Prime Minister [[Fredrik Reinfeldt]], after the [[2006 Swedish general election|2006]] and [[2010 Swedish general election|2010]] general elections. In 2010, the party was the leading member of the [[Alliance (Sweden)|Alliance]], a centre-right coalition, along with the [[Centre Party (Sweden)|Centre Party]] (C), the [[Christian Democrats (Sweden)|Christian Democrats]] (KD) and the [[Liberals (Sweden)|Liberal People's Party]] (L), and obtained its best result ever (30.1%), despite the coalition not being able to obtain majority.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pollard |first1=Niklas |last2=Shanley |first2=Mia |title=Centre-right wins Swedish vote but short of majority |date=19 September 2010 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-sweden-election-idUKTRE68I0IP20100919 |work=Reuters |access-date=18 September 2022}}</ref>

The current chairman of the party, [[Ulf Kristersson]], was elected at a special party congress on 1 October 2017, following [[Anna Kinberg Batra]]'s sudden resignation. Kinberg Batra had replaced Reinfeldt, Prime Minister from 2006 to 2014. Under Reinfeldt's leadership, the party moved more towards the [[centrism|centre]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/verden/1.1009336|work=NRK|title=Ein ny æra i svensk politikk|first=Bent|last=Tandstad|date=18 September 2006|access-date=14 July 2010|archive-date=25 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025052216/http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/verden/1.1009336|url-status=live}}</ref> Under Kristersson's leadership, the party moved back to the right and opened up to the [[Sweden Democrats]] (SD) following the [[2018 Swedish general election]].<ref name="Milne 2019"/> Having formed in late 2021 an informal right-wing alliance with SD and former Alliance members, KD and L, with Kristersson as the prime ministerial candidate, the right-wing bloc obtained a narrow win in the [[2022 Swedish general election]].<ref>{{cite web|date=2022-09-14|title=Swedish PM resigns as right-wing parties win vote|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62908902|access-date=2022-09-14|website=BBC News|archive-date=14 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914204453/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62908902|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2022-09-14|title=Sweden election: PM Magdalena Andersson concedes victory to right-wing opposition|url=https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-election-pm-magdalena-andersson-concedes-victory-to-right-wing-opposition/a-63117673|access-date=2022-09-14|website=Deutsche Welle|archive-date=14 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914183505/https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-election-pm-magdalena-andersson-concedes-victory-to-right-wing-opposition/a-63117673|url-status=live}}</ref>