https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Niels Paarup-Petersen, the Centre Party’s newly appointed migration spokesperson, has told The Local why he expects opposition to the government’s tightening of migration laws to grow in the coming year as more and more immigrants people know personally start to be affected. https://www.thelocal.se/20260109/lets-not-kick-people-out-of-sweden-who-are-already-contributing Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:04:11 +0100 lets-not-kick-people-out-of-sweden-who-are-already-contributing The Centre Party's nomination committee has proposed Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist as the party's new leader, making her almost certain to be voted into the role when the party's delegates meet for their party congress next week. https://www.thelocal.se/20251104/swedens-centre-party-proposes-new-leader Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:18:29 +0100 swedens-centre-party-proposes-new-leader The Centre Party’s election committee has nominated a leader to take over the reins of the struggling party. But who is Anna-Karin Hatt and why is her new role so crucial? https://www.thelocal.se/20250414/who-is-anna-karin-hatt-and-why-does-her-new-role-as-centre-party-leader-matter Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:59:36 +0200 who-is-anna-karin-hatt-and-why-does-her-new-role-as-centre-party-leader-matter The knives have been out for Centre Party leader Muharrem Demirok since last summer and on Monday he finally gave up the fight, announcing his resignation. Will his replacement be in a position to choose Sweden's next prime minister? https://www.thelocal.se/20250225/could-a-new-centre-leader-determine-swedens-next-pm Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:59:50 +0100 could-a-new-centre-leader-determine-swedens-next-pm The Local spoke to Muharrem Demirok for our Sweden in Focus podcast about his former allies' collaboration with the far-right, and his unlikely path from a rough Stockholm suburb to leader of the agrarian Centre Party, popular with rural voters. https://www.thelocal.se/20240316/interview-sweden-was-a-country-where-we-included-everyone-who-wanted-to-be-a-swede Sat, 16 Mar 2024 07:45:16 +0100 interview-sweden-was-a-country-where-we-included-everyone-who-wanted-to-be-a-swede In a press conference on Wednesday, Sweden's Centre Party announced that Muharrem Demirok, MP and former deputy mayor of Linköping, will take over from leader Annie Lööf following a party conference vote in February. https://www.thelocal.se/20230111/who-is-the-new-leader-of-swedens-centre-party-and-why-is-it-important Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:33:29 +0100 who-is-the-new-leader-of-swedens-centre-party-and-why-is-it-important Muharrem Demirok will take over as leader of Sweden's Centre Party if the party's election committee gets its way, its chairman said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20230111/centre-party-nominates-new-leader-to-take-over-in-february Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:38:05 +0100 centre-party-nominates-new-leader-to-take-over-in-february The leader of Sweden's Centre Party has announced that she is stepping down as leader of the party she has led since 2011. https://www.thelocal.se/20220915/breaking-annie-loof-to-step-down-as-centre-party-leader Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:21:26 +0200 breaking-annie-loof-to-step-down-as-centre-party-leader Sweden's Centre Party would consider minister roles in a Social Democrat-led government, the party's leader, Annie Lööf, said on Monday, firmly positioning her party in the left bloc. https://www.thelocal.se/20220816/centre-party-ready-to-join-social-democrat-led-government Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:25:58 +0200 centre-party-ready-to-join-social-democrat-led-government In The Local's fourth pre-election party leader interview, the Centre Party's deputy leader Martin Ådahl celebrates his party's achievements over the past four years, rues the populist drift of the Moderates, and warns that the Social Democrats' work permit plan risks being a business catastrophe. https://www.thelocal.se/20220720/interview-sweden-has-essentially-been-ruled-for-four-years-a-centre-party-programme Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:30:36 +0200 interview-sweden-has-essentially-been-ruled-for-four-years-a-centre-party-programme Centre Party leader Annie Lööf called for "togetherness and reflection" in a speech at Almedalen that showed her able to respond to tragedy like a national leader. https://www.thelocal.se/20220708/centre-party-leader-meets-almedalen-tragedy-call-for-unity Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:27:29 +0200 centre-party-leader-meets-almedalen-tragedy-call-for-unity The leader of Sweden's Centre Party has said she "regrets" a party vote to work for a ban on non-medical circumcision, after Jewish and Muslim groups criticized the decision. https://www.thelocal.se/20191002/jews-and-muslims-in-sweden-outraged-over-call-to-ban-male-circumcision Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:56:59 +0200 jews-and-muslims-in-sweden-outraged-over-call-to-ban-male-circumcision Sweden's Centre Party has expelled two lay judges after the details of a ruling they made in a Stockholm assault case caused controversy. https://www.thelocal.se/20180306/centre-party-expels-two-lay-judges-over-assault-ruling Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:08:23 +0100 centre-party-expels-two-lay-judges-over-assault-ruling Next year's Swedish general election is set to be another tense one according to the latest polls, which provide further evidence that the country's political dynamic is shifting. https://www.thelocal.se/20170511/why-the-sweden-democrats-and-centre-party-could-be-key-in-the-next-swedish-election Thu, 11 May 2017 16:08:08 +0200 why-the-sweden-democrats-and-centre-party-could-be-key-in-the-next-swedish-election With just over a year left until Sweden's next general election, the country's biggest opposition party appears to be in freefall, dropping sharply in opinion polls and showing little sign of recovery. But could a bigger consequence of that be a shake-up in the very alliances which currently define Swedish politics? https://www.thelocal.se/20170317/could-crisis-in-the-opposition-bring-a-new-political-climate-in-sweden Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:30:20 +0100 could-crisis-in-the-opposition-bring-a-new-political-climate-in-sweden On Tuesday the Riksdag is expected to vote in tough new asylum and residency rules, but the Centre Party is one of two that will vote against them. The party’s integration and migration policy spokeswoman Johanna Jönsson explains why they will reject the proposed measures. https://www.thelocal.se/20160621/why-i-will-vote-no-to-changing-swedens-residency-laws Tue, 21 Jun 2016 08:59:30 +0200 why-i-will-vote-no-to-changing-swedens-residency-laws Sweden's opposition is moving towards a unified front on Nato membership after Centre party bosses announced they would advocate joining the defence alliance on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20150901/swedish-party-in-u-turn-on-nato-membership Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:31:07 +0200 swedish-party-in-u-turn-on-nato-membership UPDATED: Chairwoman of the Centre Party youth wing Hanna Wagenius was accused of breaking the law after her party urged members to tweet pictures of "zombie politics" May Day demonstrators with the hashtag #thewalkingred. https://www.thelocal.se/20140430/zombie-comparison-upsets-may-day-demonstrators Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:03:00 +0200 zombie-comparison-upsets-may-day-demonstrators The minority Centre Party, a government coalition party that has traced an uneasy arc from farmers lobbyists to libertarians, has slumped below the voter support level required to stay in parliament. https://www.thelocal.se/20140131/centre-party-at-three-decade-low-in-polls Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:27:00 +0100 centre-party-at-three-decade-low-in-polls The opposition Social Democrats plan to take down the minority Centre Party in the ratings in order to weaken the government ahead of next year's elections, Swedish media reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20130821/49770 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:40:00 +0200 49770