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79-635: The party was established as the Union of Moderate Conservatives ( Nuosaikiųjų konservatorių sąjunga ) in 2000 as a breakaway from the Homeland Union . Initially led by the former prime minister, Gediminas Vagnorius , it contested the 2000 elections , receiving 2% of the vote and winning a single seat. By the 2004 elections , the party had been renamed the Christian Conservative Social Union. It received again 2.0% of

158-606: A coalition government . Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt took office as Prime Minister of Sweden on 6 October 2006 along with his cabinet . In the 2010 general election , the Moderate Party performed their best results, since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1919, with 30.1% of the votes. However, the minor parties in the Alliance performed relatively poorly, and the Reinfeldt cabinet continued in office as

237-601: A minority government . He is the longest-serving non– Social Democrat Prime Minister since Erik Gustaf Boström who left office in 1900. In the 2014 European elections , the Moderate Party came in third place nationally with 13.6% of the vote, returning three MEPs. In the 2014 general election , the Red-Green coalition outpolled Reinfeldt's incumbent Alliance coalition, prompting its resignation. The Social Democrat Stefan Löfven became Prime Minister on 3 October 2014. The Moderate Party performed reasonably well also in

316-544: A "green-right" party. The party campaigned for changing currency to the euro in the 2003 referendum . As of 2013, the party was still in favor of the euro, but it expressed that the issue of a membership of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union and the eurozone would not be relevant until the member states have met certain strict requirements set up by the party in regard to budget deficits. In

395-425: A Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats-led coalition. In 2023 municipal elections Homeland Union managed to win a mayorship of Vilnius (for the first time since 2011), but lost mayorships and majorities in rural councils. In 2024 presidential election Ingrida Šimonytė was selected as candidate from the party, but she lost incumbent President of Republic Gitanas Nausėda. In the parliamentary election of

474-483: A defender of private ownership from, what the party saw as, the growing tendencies of state centralization . The party had significant success in the elections during the 1950s and became the largest party of the opposition in 1958. However, the next decade brought changes to the political climate of Sweden. The election of 1968 gave the Social Democrats an absolute majority in the parliament and made

553-581: A meeting in December 2019 with Jimmie Åkesson , leader of the Sweden Democrats , and said that he would cooperate with them in parliament. The anti-immigration party had previously been subject to a cordon sanitaire by all other parties, with Kristersson himself ruling out dialogue with them ahead of the 2018 elections. According to Ann-Cathrine Jungar of Södertörn University , this put Sweden in line with several other European countries in which

632-624: A minority one. In June 2011, the Lithuanian Nationalist Union declared its withdrawal from the party, although Nationalist faction remained in the Homeland Union. In June 2012, Aurelija Stancikienė resigned from the party and joined the Way of Courage . Support for the party decreased in the 2012 parliamentary election, and it was excluded from the government. It was credited to many unpopular decisions made during

711-572: A much more liberal social outlook, which was seen as a key factor in the foundation of the Christian Democratic Gathering in 1964, a socially conservative party. Bohman proved a successful leader, and helped lead the non-socialist opposition to victory in the 1976 election. The Moderate Party joined the government under Thorbjörn Fälldin , with Gösta Bohman as Minister of Economy. The non-socialist parties managed to remain in power until 1982 in different constellations, but

790-559: A new leader was elected, Andrius Kubilius , who prior this served as deputy leader of the party. Since 2003, the party started cooperating with the Liberal and Centre Union . The Homeland Union changed its logo (the Columns of Gediminids were replaced by green marlin's silhouette, which was similar to the logo used by the time of 1996 parliamentary election campaign, in which Kubilius was author of programme). After Lithuania's admission to

869-764: A ruling party, the General Electoral League turned into a bastion of right-wing opposition, and in 1938 it was renamed the National Organization of the Right (Swedish: Högerns riksorganisation [ˈhøːɡɛɳʂ ˈrɪ̂ksɔrɡanɪsaˌɧuːn] ), a name that would stay until 1952. Outside Sweden, the party was typically called the Conservative Party . After the Second World War, the party gradually lost support and

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948-610: Is a mix of liberalism and conservatism , and corresponds to what is called liberal conservatism . As is common in European centre-right and conservative parties, the term liberalism in Sweden refers to the traditional meaning of classical liberalism rather than progressivism or social liberalism in countries such as the United States. The party supports free markets and personal freedom and has historically been

1027-435: Is organised on national, county and municipal level. Currently the party has around 600 local party associations and 26 county or city associations Each county or city association sends delegates to the party congress , which is held every third year. The 200 congress delegates elect a party chairman , two deputy party chairmen, and members of the party board. The party board appoints a party secretary . In February 2022,

1106-577: Is split into factions, which are based by former parties: Moderate Party The Moderate Party ( Swedish : Moderata samlingspartiet [mʊdɛˈrɑ̌ːta ˈsâmːlɪŋspaˌʈiːɛt] , lit.   ' Moderate Coalition Party ' , M ), commonly referred to as the Moderates ( Swedish : Moderaterna [mʊdɛˈrɑ̌ːtɛɳa] ), is a liberal-conservative political party in Sweden . The party generally supports tax cuts ,

1185-424: 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 and 2010 general elections. In 2010, the party was the leading member of the Alliance , a centre-right coalition, along with

1264-582: The 2022 Swedish general election . The party was founded on 17 October 1904 in a restaurant called Runan in Stockholm . The intention was to start a campaign organization in support of the group of Conservatives which had emerged in the Riksdag . During the 19th century conservatives had organised themselves in the Riksdag but there was no party to support them. The Swedish right was also threatened by

1343-621: The Bražuolė bridge bombing in 1994 and the bombing of the editorial office of Lietuvos rytas in 1995, as a conspiracy against them. At the 2008 legislative election , the Homeland Union won 19.69 per cent of the national vote and 45 seats in the Seimas . Becoming the largest party in the Seimas, it formed a coalition government with the Liberal Movement , Liberal and Centre Union and

1422-656: The Centre Party (C), the Christian Democrats (KD) and the Liberal People's Party (L), and obtained its best result ever (30.1%), despite the coalition not being able to obtain majority. 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,

1501-715: The Conservatives (Lithuanian: Konservatoriai ), is a centre-right political party in Lithuania. It has 18,000 members and 28 of 141 seats in the Seimas . Its current leader is Gabrielius Landsbergis , who replaced Andrius Kubilius in 2015. It is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and the International Democracy Union (IDU). Since 1996, the party has included the western house martin in its various logos over

1580-786: The European Union in 2004, it won two seats in the election to the European Parliament , one of whom was Vytautas Landsbergis , who sat in the EPP-ED Group. At the 2004 election to the Seimas , the party won 14.6% of the popular vote and 25 out of 141 seats. After these elections, the Homeland Union proposed the Liberal and Centre Union a coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania , but this didn't came to being. Between 2006 and 2007,

1659-564: The Liberal Union of Lithuania in 1999 and 2000. In 2000 municipal elections, the party received just 8.8 per cent of the vote ant mayorships of Kaunas and other districts. In 2000 , the Homeland Union was reduced to 8.6 per cent of votes and 9 deputies. In 2001, idea of merge of all right wing parties was proposed by the Homeland People's Party. This proposal was accepted by the Homeland Union. In 2003 and 2004, it merged with

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1738-517: The Liberals rose to become the second most popular party after the Social Democrats. At the beginning of the 1950s, the party re-emerged after being renamed the Rightist Party ( Swedish : Högerpartiet ); its name outside Sweden remained Conservative Party. Under the leadership of Jarl Hjalmarson (1950–1961) the party became a prominent voice against the rising levels of taxation and

1817-516: The National Resurrection Party . Together, they held a majority of 80 out of 141 seats in the Seimas, and the Homeland Union's leader, Andrius Kubilius , became Prime Minister for a second time. In 2010, party's deputy chairman Vidmantas Žiemelis resigned from the party and joined Christian Party . It (along with the split in the National Resurrection Party parliamentary group) caused Kubilius–led government to become

1896-545: The National Youth League of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges Nationella Ungdomsförbund ) was openly pro-Nazi and set up uniformed "fighting groups" to combat political enemies on the streets. The mother party did not like this development, with Lindman clearly stating that pro-Nazi views were not to be accepted in the party, and in 1933 the National Youth League was separated from the party. While

1975-527: The Right Union of Lithuania (which by itself was founded by former members of the Homeland Union and various minor parties) and the Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees respectively. At the same time, the party attracted members from Lithuanian Social Democracy 2000 (e.g. Rimantas Jonas Dagys) and Modern Christian-Democratic Union (e. g. Egidijus Vareikis). In May 2003,

2054-474: The Social Democrats . In the 2006 general election , the Moderate Party enjoyed its best result since 1928 with 26.2% of the votes. The Moderate Party had formed the Alliance for Sweden , a political and electoral alliance , along with the Centre Party , the Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats prior to this election. After the election, the Alliance for Sweden was able to form

2133-729: The expected migrant waves . The party supports border controls and tougher rules for immigrants, including temporary residence permits, stricter requirements for family reunification and cuts in welfare benefits. Swedish values was a recurring subject in Anna Kindberg Batra's speech at the Almedalen Week in 2016, and she said that immigrants should make efforts to learn the Swedish language and take part of Swedish societal orientation, or risk getting reduced benefits and harder to get permanent residence permits. Since 2015,

2212-536: The free market , civil liberties and economic liberalism . Globally, it is a full member of the International Democracy Union and the European People's Party . The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League ( Allmänna valmansförbundet [ˈâlːmɛnːa ˈvɑ̂ːlmansfœrˌbɵndɛt] ) by a group of conservatives in the Riksdag , the Swedish parliament. The party

2291-468: The parliament and in 1912 he was formally elected leader. But the party voted against universal suffrage and the party again voted against women's right to vote. It was only because the party was in the minority that Sweden was able to grant the right to vote for all, pushed through by the Liberals and the Social Democrats (the left), against the objections of the right. Although not one of the founders of

2370-723: The 1995 municipal election, in which the party stood for the first time, it got 28.76% of the vote and returned 428 councillors. In the 1996 national elections , it secured 31.3% of the vote and returned 70 deputies to the Seimas . After these elections, the party formed coalition government with the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party (and received support from the Lithuanian Centre Union ). After presidential election of 1997 and 1998 , in which Vytautas Landsbergis came third, party's internal conflicts became pronounced. It led to

2449-400: The 2014 election, making Reinfeldt its most successful leader with three of their four best election results since 1932. Anna Kinberg Batra was elected to succeed Reinfeldt as party leader on 10 January 2015. Ulf Kristersson succeeded Kinberg-Batra on 1 October 2017. The Moderate Party made its worst election result since 2002 in the 2018 general election . Ulf Kristersson announced that

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2528-482: The 2024 EU elections, the Moderate Party proposed making abortion constitutionally protected in Europe. After Fredrik Reinfeldt became leader, the party slowly moved further towards the political centre and also adopted pragmatic views. The party abandoned several of its old key features such as a proportional income tax and increased military spending. Criticism of the labour laws, its former characteristic which

2607-588: The Homeland Union supported the Statesmen ( Lithuanian : "valstybininkai" ) conspiracy theory, which claims that that a deep state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State Security Department of Lithuania (VSD) seeks to take control of the country. According to Antanas Valionis , the party interpreted state security investigations into previous unexplained incidents, such as

2686-614: The Homeland Union, the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and the Liberal Movement , although both Ramūnas Karbauskis and Liberal Movement's leader Eugenijus Gentvilas turned down this offer. Eventually, coalition was formed between the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, which lasted until the autumn of 2017. After Landsbergis reelection as party's leader in 2017 , primaries were introduced for candidates to

2765-515: The Moderate Party, announced that Sweden will renounce " feminist foreign policy ", implemented by the previous left-wing government. In 2024, new laws proposed by the Kristersson Cabinet to combat Sweden's criminality crisis took in effect including harder penalties against weapons offences, breach of the permit obligation for explosive goods, arms smuggling and smuggling of explosive goods. Other laws gave increased opportunities to

2844-449: The Moderate Party. In 1970, Gösta Bohman was elected leader of the Moderate Party. During his leadership the party continued its gradual movement from nationalist traditionalist conservatism towards internationalist liberal conservatism , calling for Swedish membership in the EEC since the 1960s and in practice adopting most policies affiliated with classical liberalism . It also adopted

2923-602: The Rightist Party into the smallest party of the opposition. By 1968, the dominance of the Social Democratic Party and 24 years of trailing the liberal People's Party among the opposition bloc had pushed the party to the edge of political relevance. Seeking to shed its conservative image, in 1969, the party changed its name to the Moderate Coalition Party (Swedish: Moderata samlingspartiet , generally just referred to as Moderaterna ) or just

3002-738: The centre-right and nationalist-right parties cooperate. In October 2022, the Tidö Agreement was formed, which led to the formation of the Kristersson Cabinet as Sweden's government. On 18 October 2022, Ulf Kristersson became the new Prime Minister of Sweden. The Moderates formed a centre-right coalition with the Christian Democrats and the Liberals, backed by the Sweden Democrats. Soon after his appointment as foreign minister, Tobias Billström of

3081-431: The economy; tariffs were widely supported as well as interventionist economical measures such as agricultural subsidies . In the defence policy crisis in 1914 (which overturned the parliamentary Liberal government), the party sided with King Gustaf V but stopped short of accepting a right-wing government by royal appointment, instead opting for an independent-conservative "war cabinet" under Hjalmar Hammarskjöld which

3160-434: The election of 1979 again made the Moderate Party become the second most popular after the Social Democrats, a position it has held since then. Gösta Bohman was in 1981 replaced by Ulf Adelsohn . In 1986, Carl Bildt was elected leader of the party. A son-in-law of Bohman, he managed to lead the party to an election victory in 1991 . The Moderate Party led a center-right coalition between 1991 and 1994, with Bildt serving as

3239-444: The essential force for privatisation , deregulation, lowering tax rates, and a reduction of the public-sector growth rate. Other issues emphasized by the party are such as actions against violent crime and sex crime, increasing and promoting the value of working, and quality in the educational system . The party supports same-sex marriage in Sweden and Sweden's membership in the European Union . The Moderate Party considers itself as

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3318-630: The expulsion of Laima Liucija Andrikienė and Vidmantas Žiemelis from the party's board in late 1998 and their resignation from the party in 1999. In 1999, conflicts started between the President Valdas Adamkus and the Prime Minister Gediminas Vagnorius (who also was the party's Board chairman), that involved party's leader Vytautas Landsbergis. Crisis (and resignation of Vagnorius) sped up reorganisation of party structures. Most important of them

3397-418: The first conservative Prime Minister since Arvid Lindman . The cabinet of Carl Bildt did much to reform the Swedish government: they cut taxes, cut public spending , introduced voucher schools, made it possible for counties to privatize health care, liberalised markets for telecommunications and energy, and privatised former publicly owned companies (further deregulations and privatisations were carried out by

3476-602: The first place on party's list and as the future Prime Minister. In 2020, members of the Homeland Union, Rimantas Dagys and Egidijus Vareikis formed new party, the Christian Union . In 2020 parliamentary election the party won the most seats (50) and agreed to form coalition with the Liberal Movement and the Freedom Party . In November 2020, Ingrida Šimonytė became the new Prime Minister of

3555-488: The following Social Democratic Cabinet of Göran Persson ). The negotiations for membership with the European Union were also finalized. The party gained votes in 1994, but the governing coalition lost its majority. While Bildt stayed on as the Moderate Party leader, failing to unite with the Greens , the non-socialist parties failed to return to government after the election in 1998 as well. Bo Lundgren replaced him and led

3634-528: The general election of 1928, often called the Cossack Election , on a clearly anti-socialist programme. The government later formed by the party did not accept the concept of the market economy but continued the protectionist policy by generous financial aid. The government also began complete regulation of agriculture. Production associations, with the objective to administer the regulations and running monopolies on imports, were also established during

3713-429: The leadership of Lindman—the importance of continuance and strengthening national business were cornerstones. But at the same time, recent social issues gained significant political attention; by appeasing the working class, the party also hoped to reduce the threat of revolutionary tendencies. During the governments led by Lindman, several reforms for social progress were made, and it was his first government that initiated

3792-569: The main opposition party to the Homeland Union was the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania , which was created from the Communist Party of Lithuania in 1990), with an ideology influenced by liberal conservatism , Christian democracy , and nationalism . TS–LKD is economically liberal , supports a free market economy and was described as neo-liberal . After the election of Gabrielius Landsbergis as leader of

3871-435: The number of seats held by the party fell to 31. After these elections, various pundits claimed that the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union could form coalition with the Homeland Union, but leader of Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union Ramūnas Karbauskis proposed wide coalition between aforementioned parties and the Social Democratic Party. The Homeland Union's leader Gabrielius Landsbergis himself proposed coalition between

3950-432: The party and not a prominent ideologist, Lindman and his achievements as a leader are often appreciated as being of great importance to the new party. His leadership was marked by a consolidation of the Swedish right, and by transforming the party into a modern, effective, political movement. Lindman was a very pragmatic politician, but without losing his principles. He was a formidable negotiator and peace broker. For this, he

4029-485: The party has taken up its demand for increased military spending, and has supported the re-introduction of mandatory military service , inactivated in Sweden under Fredrik Reinfeldt in 2010. The party is in favour of Swedish membership of NATO and supported Sweden's application for membership. The party expressed a wish that a membership is applied for together with Finland which is what happened in May 2022. The party

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4108-769: The party in 2015 (especially after 2017), the Homeland Union started to describe itself as the country's people's party ( Lithuanian : žmonių partija ) and moved more to a centrist direction, rebranding itself as a European moderate party, while still maintaining centre-right profile (especially on economics). It was founded in May 1993 by the right wing of the Reform Movement of Lithuania , led by Vytautas Landsbergis , who had led Lithuania to independence. His supporter, former Prime Minister of Lithuania Gediminas Vagnorius , became party Board's chairman. Some members of Sąjūdis coalition, but not Sąjūdis itself (e. g. Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė ), joined new party. The party

4187-527: The party in the disastrous general election of 2002 , much owed to his alleged neoliberal stances, for which Lundgren continued to receive praise from younger members. Former head of the Moderate Youth Fredrik Reinfeldt was elected as the new party leader in 2003. Prior to the 2006 general election , the Moderate Party adjusted its position in the political spectrum, moving towards the centre-right . To reflect these changes,

4266-406: The party moved more towards the centre . 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 . 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

4345-509: The party set up a new youth league, which came to be called Moderate Youth League or The Young Swedes (currently the largest youth league in Sweden in terms of membership), the core of the old one (in spite of some districts, such as Young Swedes- Gothenburg joining the new one) set up its own party—the National League of Sweden —which fought elections as an openly pro-Nazi party and temporarily gained parliamentary representation in

4424-581: The party supported Gediminas Kirkilas-led government . Until the merger with the Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees and the Right Union of Lithuania, it was known just as the Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives) . Prior to 2008 it was known as the Homeland Union (Conservatives, Political Prisoners and the Exiled, Christian Democrats) or TS . The last change of the name

4503-526: The party was competing on the centre-right political wing with the Liberal Movement, but due to the so-called MG Baltic corruption scandal in May 2016, the Liberal Movement lost about half of its support. As a result of the scandal, the Homeland Union's support slightly increased at the 2016 legislative election (and it overtook the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union by 0.18 per cent), but, due to failure to win more single-member seats in Seimas,

4582-524: The party was strongest in Alytus and Lazdijai districts. Although the party lost two-thirds of its support nationwide during 1997 and 2000, these areas remained supportive to the party up until early 2010s. The one exception would be Pasvalys district , where the party managed to obtain over 20 per cent of the vote in 2000 municipal elections. After 2008 merger with Lithuanian Christian Democrats, Homeland Union gained support from Molėtai district , which

4661-601: The party would "create a new Swedish Model" at the Moderate Party Congress on 5 April 2019 and also that the party would be phasing out the New Moderates name. The party also presented its new logo, the old M logo which was used between 1972 and 2006 was adopted again. The change in logo was seen by analysts as a way to show that the party breaks with Reinfeldt's policies. Ulf Kristersson has also been critical of multiculturalism . Kristersson held

4740-468: The party's unofficial name was altered to The New Moderates (Swedish: De Nya Moderaterna [dɔm ˈnŷːa mʊdɛˈrɑ̌ːtɛɳa] ). This has included focus on proactive measures against unemployment, lower taxes combined with reforms to strengthen the Swedish welfare state . The Moderate Party has since 2006 used the slogan "the Swedish Workers' Party", a slogan formerly synonymous with

4819-411: The party. Main change was that in large cities candidates to the Seimas were replaced with younger candidates, while older candidates moved rural constituencies (e. g. Rasa Juknevičienė stood in Aukštaitija single-member constituency instead of one in Žaliakalnis ) or removed altogether (e. g. Arimantas Dumčius was expelled for remarks over Adolf Hitler 's economic policy). Between 2014 and 2016

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4898-484: The period. All this made for a corporate control of the Swedish economy unsurpassed since the popularisation of liberalism at the end of the 19th century. The government of Lindman fell in 1930 after the Social Democrats and the Freeminded People's Party had blocked a proposition for a raised customs duty on grain. The 1930s saw the party in conflict over how to relate to the rising threat of National Socialism and Fascism . Its loosely affiliated youth organisation,

4977-426: The police to use covert means of coercion to prevent and investigate serious crime, tougher border controls and extended power to security guards. On 20 February 2024, the Kristersson cabinet sent the largest military support package to Ukraine . During Kristerssons Premiership, Sweden ended longstanding neutrality to become a NATO member on 7 March. Defunct Former The Moderate Party states that its ideology

5056-506: The presidential nominees and party list in parliamentary election. In 2018, Mantas Adomėnas 's membership in the party was suspended due to relations of MG Baltic and Adomėnas himself. Later, Adomėnas left Homeland Union's parliamentary group and the party itself. By autumn of 2018, the party held presidential primaries (the first party in Lithuania to do so), which were won by Ingrida Šimonytė . Šimonytė's performance in 2019 presidential election raised possibility about her nomination to

5135-413: The public state pension . In the 1920s, the Swedish right slowly started to move towards a classical liberal view on economic issues, mainly under the influence of the liberal economist Gustav Cassel , but the economic downturn following the Great Depression frustrated the possible liberal transition of their economic policy. Before that occurred the party gained its greatest success yet with 29.4% in

5214-472: The rise of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (founded in 1889) and the Liberals (1902). The party was called the General Electoral League (Swedish: Allmänna valmansförbundet ). At first, the party was clearly nationalist and staunchly conservative . The importance of a strong defence was underlined and other societal institutions embraced by the party were the monarchy and the state of law . The party initially held ia protectionist view towards

5293-574: The same year Homeland Union won 18.35 per cent of the vote, but won just 28 seats due to poor performance in single-member constituencies. Gabrielius Landsbergis announced his resignation as leader of the Homeland Union and as member of the next Seimas . It triggered new leadership election in 2025 . During 1990s the party was strong in urban areas with Panevėžys and Kaunas being its strongholds. It could explained by national composition in these urban areas (Lithuanians in 2001 census made up 95 and 92 per cent of population respectively). In rural areas

5372-465: The shape of three rightist MPs . The party participated in the third cabinet of Per Albin Hansson during the Second World War. It was a grand coalition including all major parties, only excluding the Communist Party and the pro-Nazi Socialist Party , both parties being members of the parliament at this time. In 1934, the Social Democrats formed a new government, and except for the World War II era, would stay in power until 1976. From having been

5451-509: The time of government, and the unpopularity of the Andrius Kubilius. In 2014 European Parliament election , the party managed to defeat by narrow margin their main competitors, the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. After 2015 municipal election, Andrius Kubilius resigned from party's leader position. Subsequent leadership election was won by the Member of European Parliament (and former advisor of Andrius Kubilius) Gabrielius Landsbergis . Gabrielius Landsbergis initiated various changes in

5530-422: The vote, but lost its single seat in the Seimas . On 23 January 2010, it merged into the Christian Party . This article about a Lithuanian political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Homeland Union The Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats ( Lithuanian : Tėvynės sąjunga – Lietuvos krikščionys demokratai , abbr. TS–LKD), also colloquially known as

5609-459: The years. It is the main centre-right party and has been traditionally allied to other centre-right or liberal parties such as the Liberals' Movement , Freedom Party , Liberal and Centre Union or the National Resurrection Party with which they are usually grouped together and formed coalitions in the past. The Homeland Union is conservative . For most of its existence, it has explicitly defined itself as anti-communist (mainly because

5688-470: Was neoliberal , was changed towards conserving the Swedish model and a careful embracing of balance on the labour market. With the ascension of Anna Kinberg Batra as party leader, the party adjusted its position in the political spectrum and moved back towards the political right . The party abandoned its previously liberal stance on immigration, notably manifested by Fredrik Reinfeldt's summer speech in 2014 in which he appealed for "open hearts" to meet

5767-539: Was a result of the merger with the Lithuanian Nationalist Union on 11 March 2008, and the Lithuanian Christian Democrats on 17 May 2008, after which the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats became Lithuania's largest party with more than 18,000 members. After these two mergers, youth wings of these parties (Young Nationalists Organisation and Young Christian Democrats ) became the Homeland Union's youth wings. During 2006 to 2008,

5846-407: Was established by the model of then–ruling conservative parties' – United States Republican Party , United Kingdom Conservative Party and Moderate Party . In December 1993, party's youth wing, Young Conservative League, was formed. In February 1994, the Homeland Union formed its own parliamentary group in Seimas. Later that year, the Homeland Union established its branches in all of Lithuania. In

5925-421: Was eventually overturned in favour of a Liberal-Social Democratic majority coalition government and thus the breakthrough of parliamentary rule, albeit reluctantly embraced by the right. Arvid Lindman (often called "The Admiral") became influential in the party and served two terms as Prime Minister of Sweden , before and after the enactment of universal suffrage . In 1907, he proposed universal male suffrage to

6004-712: Was later known as The Right ( Högern [ˈhø̌ːɡɛɳ] ; 1938–1952) and Right Party ( Högerpartiet [ˈhø̂ːɡɛrpaˌʈiːɛt] ; 1952–1969). During this time, the party was usually called the Conservative Party outside of Sweden. 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

6083-612: Was stronghold of Lithuanian Christian Democrats. In early 2010s with the rise of public election committees the Homeland Union lost support in Panevėžys and Kaunas. In return, due to internal migration and suburbanisation , the party gained support in Vilnius area (notable example, Naujoji Vilnia ). First faction to be established within the party was Christian Democrats' faction in 2003. Since then (mainly due to mergers with other parties) new factions were established. The party currently

6162-674: Was the merger of the Political Council and the Board, which produced centralized leadership. In 2000, Gediminas Vagnorius' supporters split and new party called the Union of Moderate Conservatives was formed. Yet another split was caused by the resignation of Rolandas Paksas (he replaced Gediminas Vagnorius as the Prime Minister and party's Board chairman), although most of the Rolandas Paksas' supporters moved to

6241-513: Was widely respected, even by his fiercest political opponents and when he resigned and left the parliament in 1935, the leader of the Social Democrats, Per Albin Hansson , expressed his "honest thanks over the battle lines". From the beginning of the 20th century, social democracy and the labour movement rose to replace liberalism as the major political force for radical reforms. The Moderate Party intensified its opposition to socialism during

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