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The Government of the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sveriges regering) is the national cabinet of Sweden, and the country's executive authority.. The Government consists of the Prime Minister—appointed and dismissed by the Speaker of the Riksdag—and other cabinet ministers (Swedish: Statsråd), appointed and dismissed at the sole discretion of the Prime Minister.
The most important is the Instrument of Government of 1974 which sets out the basic principles of political life in Sweden, defining rights and freedoms. The Act of Succession is a treaty between the old Riksdag of the Estates and House of Bernadotte regulating their rights to accede to the Swedish throne.
1672-1697 : King Charles XI of Sweden; 1697-1697 : Privy Council, government under the minority of the monarch; 1697-1718 : King Charles XII of Sweden; 1718-1738 : Chancellery President Arvid Horn, leader of a Cap Party government; 1738-1765 : Parliamentary rule with a Hat Party government; 1765-1769 : Parliamentary rule with a Cap Party government
In most parliamentary democracies, the head of state commissions a politician to form a government. Under the new Instrument of Government [12] (one of the four fundamental laws of the Constitution) enacted in 1974, that task was removed from the Monarch of Sweden and given to the Speaker of the Riksdag. To make changes to the Constitution ...
In 1974, it was decided that the number of seats from 1977 were to be reduced to 349. The new instrument of government adopted in 1974 left the monarch as a ceremonial head of state without political power. [9] The new instrument of government read as follows: [9] “All public power in Sweden proceeds from the people. Swedish democracy is ...
The name for Sweden is generally agreed to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own", referring to one's own tribe from the tribal period. [16] [17] [18] The native Swedish name, Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, first recorded in the cognate Swēorice in Beowulf), [19] translates as "realm of the Swedes", which excluded the Geats in Götaland.
The Kristersson cabinet (Swedish: regeringen Kristersson) is the 57th government of Sweden and is formed by Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party.It is a coalition government consisting of three parties: the Moderate Party, the Christian Democrats, and the Liberals. [1]
In the 2018 Swedish general election, no political group or party won an outright majority, resulting in a hung parliament. [1] [2] [3] On 9 September, the Red-Greens, led by Stefan Löfven's Social Democrats (S), emerged as the main political force in the Riksdag, while the centre-right Alliance led by Ulf Kristersson's Moderate Party only got one seat less.