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Moderate Party
Party · Printed May 12, 2026 · politicahub.com/party/moderate-party-se
The Moderate Party is Sweden's main center-right governing party and the traditional vehicle for liberal-conservative politics, business interests, tax reduction, and market-oriented reform. It evolved from a more classically conservative formation into a broader catch-all party, especially under Fredrik Reinfeldt, who rebranded it as a modern reformist right that accepted the welfare state while trying to make it more work-centered and competitive. Under Ulf Kristersson it accepted parliamentary dependence on the Sweden Democrats, a strategic shift that restructured the entire Swedish right.
Key Facts
| founded year | 1904 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- Q: What ideology does Moderate Party follow?
- A: Moderate Party is ideologically aligned with Conservatism, Liberalism.
- Q: When was Moderate Party founded?
- A: Moderate Party was founded in 1904, about 122 years ago.
- Q: Who is associated with Moderate Party?
- A: Politicians connected to Moderate Party on this site include Ulf Kristersson.
- Q: Where does Moderate Party operate?
- A: Moderate Party operates in Sweden.
- Q: What is Moderate Party?
- A: The Moderate Party is Sweden's main center-right governing party and the traditional vehicle for liberal-conservative politics, business interests, tax reduction, and market-oriented reform. It evolved from a more classically conservative formation into a broader catch-all party, especially under Fredrik Reinfeldt, who rebranded it as a modern reformist right that accepted the welfare state while trying to make it more work-centered and competitive. Under Ulf Kristersson it accepted parliamentary dependence on the Sweden Democrats, a strategic shift that restructured the entire Swedish right.
SwedenFounded 1904Conservatism
The party of tax cuts, tougher policing, and a more market-driven Sweden
Sweden's Moderate Party wants to govern from the right without sounding reckless: lower taxes, more nuclear power, looser housing and labour bottlenecks, and a much harder line on crime and migration. Their pitch is that Sweden got too expensive, too slow, and too permissive under the old model.
If they win, what changes?
- 01
Taxes and growth
Let households and businesses keep more money and use tax policy to push work and investment.
How: Cut taxes on work and middle incomes, resist wealth and top-rate tax hikes, and frame growth as the way to finance welfare rather than broader redistribution.
- 02
Crime and migration
Make the state feel harder and faster in response to gang violence and failed integration.
How: Support harsher sentencing, expanded police powers, more deportations for non-citizens who commit serious crimes, and a restrictive asylum and citizenship line.
