Sweden Government - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Official name: Kingdom of Sweden

Type· constitutional monarchy

Capital: Stockholm

Political subdivisions: 24 counties, 284 municipalities (townships!

Lega¹ system: civil law system influenced by customary law; a new constitution was adopted in 1975 replacing the Acts of 1809 1866, and 1949; legal education at Universities of Lund, Stockholm, and Uppsala; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations

National holiday: no national holiday;

King’s birthday, 30 April, celebrated as such by Swedish embassies

Branches: legislative authority rests with unicameral parliament (Riksdag); executive power vested in Cabinet, responsible to parliament; Supreme Court, 6 superior courts, 108 low er courts

Government leaders: CARL XVI Gustaf, King (since September 1973); Ingvar CARLSSON, Prime Minister (since March 1986)

Suffrage: universal but not compulsory over age 18; after three years of legal residence immigrants may vote in county and municipal but not national elections

Elections: every three years; next scheduled for September 1988

Political parties and leaders: Moderate Coalition (conservative), Ulf Adeisohn, Center,

Karen Soder; liberal People’s Party, Bengt Westerberg; Social Democratic, Ingvar Carlsson; Left Party-Communist (VPK), Lars Werner, Swedish Communist Party (SKP), Roland Pettersson; (Communist Workers’ Party, Rolf Hagel

Voting strength: (1985 election' 45 0% Social Democratic, 21.3% Moderate Coalition, 12.5% Center (includes votes for Christian Democratic Alliance), 14.3% Liberal. 5.4% Communist, 1.5% other

Communists: VPK and SKP; VPK, the major Communist party, is reported to have roughly 17,800 members; in the 1985 election, the VPK attracted 293,543 votes; in addition, there are 4 other active Communist parties, including the SKP, for which membership figures are not available; in the 1985 elections, these parties obtained an additional 16,000 votes

Member of: ADB, Council of Europe, DAC, EC (Free Trade Agreement), EFTA, ESRO, FAO, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, 1CAC, ICAO, ICES, ICO, IDA, IDB—Inter-American Development Bank,lEA, IFAD, 1FC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, INTELSAT, International Lead and Zinc Study Group, IPU, ISO, ITU, IWC—International Whaling Commission, IWC—International Wheat Council, Nordic Council, OECD, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WSG

NOTE: The information regarding Sweden on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Sweden 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Sweden 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.