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Swedish liberal-conservative party founded in 1904 and led by Ulf Kristersson in the Tidö government. It defends low taxes, market reforms, the EU and NATO, more police against gangs and restrictive asylum and immigration policy.
Political axes
Leans further toward free market than 90% of the 190 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Control is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Intervention, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most parties and organizations.
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Geopolitical doctrine of the alliance between the US, Canada and Europe around NATO and the EU, which backs the alliance's eastward expansion and the use of Western military power to spread liberal democracy and free markets against Russia and China.
The East Asian Tiger model (Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong): champions free markets, foreign trade and private enterprise as engines of growth, paired with an active technocratic state that plans infrastructure, education and strategic industrialization, stopping short of closed protectionism or hard authoritarian control.
1990s renewal of the center-left under Blair, Clinton and Giddens that accepts globalized markets and fiscal discipline, replaces welfare with work activation, is tough on crime and backs liberal interventions.
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NATO Secretary General since 2024 and prime minister of the Netherlands for 14 years (2010–2024), leader of the VVD. A liberal conservative, he defends free markets, fiscal discipline, tighter asylum, support for Ukraine and 5% of GDP on defense.
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Norway's right-wing populist party founded in 1973, liberal-conservative. It defends low taxes, a smaller state, use of oil, restricted immigration and asylum, tougher punishment and scepticism toward the climate agenda and the EU.
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