Back حزب الشعب السويدي (فنلندا) Arabic حزب الشعب السويدى فى فينلاندا ARZ Шведская народная партыя Фінляндыі Byelorussian Partit Popular Suec Catalan Švédská lidová strana Czech Svensk Folkeparti Danish Schwedische Volkspartei (Finnland) German Σουηδικό Λαϊκό Κόμμα της Φινλανδίας Greek Sveda Popola Partio (Finnlando) Esperanto Partido Popular Sueco de Finlandia Spanish
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| Abbreviation | Swedish: SFP Finnish: RKP, R |
| Chairperson | Anders Adlercreutz |
| Secretary | Fredrik Guseff |
| General Secretary | Hanna Seppä |
| Parliamentary group leader | Otto Andersson (Member of the Finnish Parliament) |
| Deputy chairs | Ramieza Mahdi Silja Borgarsdóttir Sandelin Sandra Bergqvist |
| Chair of the party council | Eva Biaudet |
| Founded | 1906 |
| Headquarters | Simonkatu 8A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland |
| Newspaper | Medborgarbladet |
| Student wing | Liberala Studerande LSK[1] |
| Youth wing | Svensk Ungdom |
| Women's wing | Svenska Kvinnoförbundet[1] |
| Membership (2016) |  30,000[2] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| European Parliament group | Renew Europe |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
| Nordic affiliation | Centre Group |
| Colours |
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| Eduskunta[a] | 10 / 200 |
| European Parliament | 1 / 15 |
| Municipalities | 463 / 8,859 |
| County seats | 76 / 1,379 |
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The Swedish People's Party of Finland (SPP; Swedish: Svenska folkpartiet i Finland, SFP; Finnish: Suomen ruotsalainen kansanpuolue, RKP) is a Finnish political party founded in 1906. Its primary aim is to represent the interests of the minority Swedish-speaking population of Finland.[3][4][5] The party is currently a participant in the Government of Petteri Orpo, holding the posts of Minister of Education, Minister for European Affairs, and Minister of Youth, Sport and Physical Activity.
An ethnic catch-all party,[6] its main election issue since its inception has been the Swedish-speaking Finns' right to their own language while maintaining the official position of the Swedish language in Finland.[7] Ideologically, it is liberal,[8][9][10] social-liberal,[11] centrist,[12][13] and pro-European.[14] The party has been in a governmental position from 1979 to 2015 and again since 2019, with one or two seats in government, and has collaborated with both centre-right and centre-left parties in parliament.
The fact that both the Finnish centre-right and centre-left have needed the support from the party has meant that they have been able to affect politics of Finland on a larger scale than the party's actual size would suggest. The position of the Swedish language as one of two official languages in Finland and the Swedish-speaking minority's right to Swedish culture are two of the results of the party's influence in Finnish politics. The party is a member of the Liberal International, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and Renew Europe. The youth organisation of the party is called Svensk Ungdom (Swedish Youth).
- ^ a b "Markus Blomquist ny ordförande för SFP i Åbo". Åbo Underrättelser (in Swedish). 30 November 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- ^ http://www.sfp.fi/sv/content/verksamhet SFP website|access date 2016-08-04
- ^ Arter, David (1999). Scandinavian Politics Today. Manchester University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-7190-5133-3.
- ^ Bondeson, Ulla (2003). Nordic Moral Climates: Value Continuities and Discontinuities in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Transaction Publishers. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7658-0203-3.
- ^ Hans van den Brandhof (2004). "The Republic of Finland". In Lucas Prakke; Constantijn Kortmann (eds.). Constitutional Law of 15 EU Member States. Kluwer. p. 183. ISBN 978-90-13-01255-2.
- ^ K. Beyme (1996). Transition to Democracy in Eastern Europe. Springer. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-230-37433-1.
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Finland". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ^ Bergqvist, Christina (1999). Equal Democracies?: Gender and Politics in the Nordic Countries. Nordic Council of Ministers. p. 319. ISBN 978-82-00-12799-4.
- ^ Juvonen, Tuula (2016-05-01). "Out and Elected: Political Careers of Openly Gay and Lesbian Politicians in Germany and Finland". Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory. 19 (1): 49. doi:10.7227/R.19.1.4. ISSN 2308-0914.
- ^ Bale, Tim (2021). Riding the populist wave: Europe's mainstream right in crisis. Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-009-00686-6. OCLC 1256593260.
- ^ Vít Hloušek; Lubomír Kopeček (2010). Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties: East-Central and Western Europe Compared. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 204. ISBN 978-0-7546-7840-3.
- ^ Lane, Jan-Erik; Ersson, Svante (2008). "Political Institutions in Europe". In Josep M. Colomer (ed.). The Nordic Countries: Compromise and Corporatism in the Welfare State. Routledge. p. 260. ISBN 978-1-134-07354-2.
- ^ "Finland MPs vote to keep Swedish in schools". The Local Sweden. 2015-03-06. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
- ^ RKP, SFP (2019). "SFP:s Riksdag ValsProgram 2019". SFP. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
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