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Yesterday, the Swedish Social Democrats’ party secretary, Carin Jämtin held a brief press conference where she announced that the party’s executive committee would submit a proposal on an acting party leader to the party board meeting on Friday. The former party leader, Håkan Juholt resigned on Saturday. According to Västerbottens Folkblad sources, the president of the trade [...]
At a brief press conference on Saturday afternoon, Håkan Juholt declared his resignation after only ten months as party leader of the Swedish Social Democrats. He was elected in a turbulent time after the disastrous election results of 2010 following which Mona Sahlin announced her resignation as party leader. Juholt’s time as party leader was [...]
The semi-annual party preference survey from Statistics Sweden (SCB) shows that a general election in November would give the centre-right government parties (C + FP + M + KD), 48.4 percent of the vote. The centre-left parties (S + V + MP) would get 44.6 percent. The xenophobic Sweden Democrats would get 5.7 percent. Party [...]
Support for the Euro in Sweden is below ten percent and thereby at a historical low point. The opposite is true for the opposition to a Swedish membership in the Euro that is now reaching new highs at 88 percent. This according to an opinion poll conducted by Skop. According to the survey conducted in [...]
Saturday’s Latvian parliamentary election was a success for the centre-left coalition, the Harmony Centre, which became the largest parliamentary group with 32 of the 100 seats in the Saeima. Harmony Centre is a coalition between the Social Democratic Party Harmony (SDPS) and the Socialist Party (LSP) and has in particular its support in the Russian-speaking minority. Despite the electoral success, it is unlikely that they will get seats in the government. 13 parties participated in the elections and five passed the five percent threshold: Party Election [...]
On July 1 two Swedish journalists, Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, were arrested by the military when they tried to enter the Ethiopian province of Ogaden in order to write a story for the Swedish magazine Filter. They have since been indicted by the Ethiopian regime for terrorist crimes as they travelled with the local [...]
On Monday, Norwegians went to the ballot boxes in the local elections. The election was a success for the Labour Party, which had its best election in 24 years. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on election night: “The election campaign we’ve just put behind us is one of the most special election campaigns the Labour [...]
Everything indicates that Denmark will get a centre-left government after the elections on Thursday. The four parties that now belong to the opposition – Social Democrats, Socialist People’s Party, Social Liberals and Red-Green Alliance – get 91 of the Danish Parliament’s 179 seats in an opinion poll commissioned by the news agency Ritzau. But while [...]
According to a report by The National Union of Teachers in Sweden (Lärarnas riksförbund), there is solid opposition among Swedes regarding profits being taken out of the private so-called free schools. Eight out of ten Swedes want to see this limited. Even among centre-right voters 73 percent want to see such restrictions. Among centre-left voters [...]
Norwegian municipalities that have a stronger economy because they can charge property tax on hydroelectric power plants in the municipality also have a higher voter turnout, according to a study by researchers at BI Norwegian Business School (Handelshøyskolen BI). The researchers looked at voter turnout in municipal elections in 2007 and compared those municipalities that [...]
In recent decades, the Swedish welfare has seen a major regime shift. From having comprehensive public welfare monopolies, Sweden has seen an extensive process to allow private for-profit actors into the welfare sector. Today, nearly one in five who work in the welfare sector are employed by the private sector. The welfare services have generally [...]
An opinion poll that Norfakta conducted on behalf of the newspapers Nationen and Klassekampen shows that Norwegian women largely prefer the centre-left before the rightwing. While 51 percent of the men would vote for the Conservatives or the Progress Party, only 36 percent of women would do the same. Election researcher Hanne Marthe Narud at [...]
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