Green Party of Sweden
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Green Party
Miljöpartiet de gröna |
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| Abbreviation | MP |
| Leader |
Gustav Fridolin Isabella Lövin (spokespersons) |
| Founded | 20 September 1981 |
| Headquarters | Pustegränd 1-3, |
| Membership (2017) | 13,689 |
| Ideology | Green politics |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation |
European Green Party The European Alliance of EU-critical Movements |
| International affiliation | Global Greens |
| European Parliament group | The Greens–European Free Alliance |
| Colours | Green |
| Riksdag |
25 / 349
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| European Parliament |
4 / 20
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| County councils |
102 / 1,597
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| Municipal councils |
732 / 12,780
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| Website | |
| http://www.mp.se/ | |
The Green Party (Swedish: Miljöpartiet de gröna, literally "Environment Party the Greens", commonly referred to in Swedish as "Miljöpartiet" or MP) is a political party in Sweden based upon green politics. The party was founded in 1981, emerging out of a sense of discontent with the existing parties' environmental policies, and sparked by the anti-nuclear power movement following the 1980 nuclear power referendum. The party's breakthrough would come in the 1988 general election when they won seats in the Swedish Riksdag for the first time, capturing 5.5 percent of the vote, and becoming the first new party to enter parliament in seventy years. Three years later, they dropped back below the 4 percent threshold, but returned to parliament again in 1994, and since have retained representation there. The party is represented nationally by two spokespeople, always one man and one woman. These roles are currently held by Gustav Fridolin and Isabella Lövin.
In the 2014 general election, the Greens received 6.9% of the vote and 25 seats, making the party the fourth largest in the Riksdag.
Since 3 October 2014, the Green Party is the minor partner to the Swedish Social Democratic Party in the Löfven Cabinet minority coalition government, the first time in its history that the Greens have entered government.
In their party platform, the Greens describe their ideology as being based on "a solidarity that can be expressed in three ways: solidarity with animals, nature, and the ecological system", "solidarity with coming generations", and "solidarity with all of the world's people". The platform then describes these solidarities being expressed in "several fundamental ideas", these being participatory democracy, ecological wisdom, social justice, children's rights, circular economy, global justice, nonviolence, equality and feminism, animal rights, self-reliance and self-administration, freedom, and long-sightedness.
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