Luf boycotts the party's national convention in Karlstad
The Liberal Youth Union (Luf) is boycotting the party's national convention this weekend, TV4 Nyheterna reports.
Swedish politicsThe Liberal Youth Union (Luf) is boycotting the party's national convention this weekend, TV4 Nyheterna reports.
Swedish politicsLiberals are now agonizing in many quarters about having to campaign for the party's new SD line. Liberal leader Simona Mohamsson demands full loyalty at the national level. "If you are on the parliamentary list, you cannot have a different opinion," she says.
Swedish politicsThe Social Democrats' party secretary Tobias Baudin, commenting on the re-election of Liberal Party leader Simona Mohamsson, said that the likelihood of SD leader Jimmie Åkesson becoming prime minister "has increased significantly." Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) welcomed the news and wrote in a debate article that it "could facilitate the formation of my next government."
Swedish politicsThe Liberals in Stockholm are not nominating a challenger to Simona Mohamsson for the party leadership ahead of a crucial meeting on Sunday. Jan Jönsson, the opposition mayor of Stockholm, describes the rapid process as frivolous.
Swedish politicsThe government has agreed to submit a bill on full transparency, a principle of openness, for independent schools. It will apply to independent schools in the same way it does to municipal schools. However, certain exemptions will be available for smaller schools and preschools.
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