June List
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| Junilistan | |
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| Leader | Nils Lundgren |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Vasagatan 40, Stockholm |
| Political ideology | Euroscepticism, Regionalism |
| European Parliament group | IND/DEM |
| Colour(s) | Orange |
| Website | www.junilistan.se |
| See also the politics of Sweden series | |
- This is about the Swedish political party. For information on the Danish political party, see June Movement.
The June List (Junilistan) is a Swedish political party, originally founded as a loose group seeking "cross-party alliance arguing for a reformed European cooperation", started to run in the European Parliament election in 2004. The party was formed in the wake of the Swedish Euro referendum held in September 2003, in which the adoption of the Euro was rejected. The party leader is Nils Lundgren, the former chief economist of Nordea, who is sceptical of the Euro.
The party takes its name from the June Movement in Denmark, which is a eurosceptic party named after the timing of the Danish referendum that rejected the Treaty of Maastricht. The two parties sit together in the Independence and Democracy group (IND/DEM) of the European Parliament which also includes the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), several members elected for the League of Polish Families (LPR) and Georgios Karatzaferis of LAOS. Lega Nord joined the group after the June List and remained within it for almost two years.
The party succeeded in capturing three seats and 14% of the votes in the last election to the European Parliament. The two MEPs are Nils Lundgren (stood as a former social democrat) and former school teacher Hélène Goudin (also social democrat). The third MEP Lars Wohlin has left Junilistan and instead joined the Christian Democrats.
Once elected, the party joined the Independence and Democracy group. Lega Nord subsequently joined the group and remained within it for two years.
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[edit] 2006 Elections
The June List was on the ballot for the 2006 parliamentary elections in Sweden. The party's platform during the election focused on a few main issues: to increase the number of people working in the private sector, hence increasing the state's tax income, a referendum on the European Union constitution and nuclear power, and increased municipal autonomy and more local referendums. All issues that were not in the party's relatively short party program were left to the approximately 100 candidates to decide on. The voters were encouraged to chose to vote for a particular June List candidate that they preferred rather then to cast a general ballot for the party itself.
At one point it seemed possible that the party might be able to break the 4% threshold necessary to enter parliament, with the party reaching 4.5% in the polls in September 2005, but after that peak the party's support plummeted well below the 4% barrier and in the months before the election it became clear that the party would not be taking seats in parliament that year. In the end, the party received only 26,072 votes (0.47%).[1]
Swedish businessman Sven Hagströmer, one of the two men who gave his name to the Hagströmer & Qviberg group of companies, serves on the board of the party.
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- Junilistan (Swedish)
| Political parties in Sweden |  |
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Represented in the Riksdag (349) |
Social Democrats (130) | Moderate Party (97) | Centre Party (29) | Liberal People's Party (28) | Christian Democrats (24) | Left Party (22) | Green Party (19) |
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Represented in the European Parliament (19 out of 732) |
Social Democrats (5) | Moderate Party (4) | Christian Democrats (2)* | June List (2)* | Left Party (2) | Centre Party (1) | Feminist Initiative (1)** | Green Party (1) | Liberal People's Party (1)** |
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Minor parties: |
Sweden Democrats (2.93%) | Pirate Party (0.63%) | Senior Citizen Interest Party (0.52%) | Health Care Party (0.21%) |
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