Feminist Initiative (Sweden)
political party in Sweden
The Feminists (Swedish: Feministerna), Feminist Initiative (2005–2025; Feministiskt initiativ, FI, Fi or F!) is a feminist political party in Sweden. The party was formed in 2005 from a pressure group of the same name, and has since taken part in every election to the Riksdag (Parliament) and the European Parliament. The party won its first elected representative in 2014, with Soraya Post taking one seat in the European Parliament.
Fi received 3.1% of the vote in the 2014 general election, the best result in its history, and won seats in thirteen municipalities in the 2014 municipal elections – including in Sweden's largest cities of Gothenburg and Stockholm, where it became part of governing "red-green-pink" coalitions.
Support for Feminist Initiative dwindled, however, and the party only managed to obtain 0.4% of the vote in the 2018 general election, making it the largest political party without representation in the Riksdag. The party lost four seats in the municipal elections, and did not gain any county council seats.
In October 2018, party co-founder Gudrun Schyman announced that she would step down as leader of the party at the next party congress.
In 2023, Agnes Lundgren and Luis Lineo became co-leaders of the party, succeeding Teysir Subhi.
History
Pressure group
The original pressure group was presented at a press conference in Stockholm on 4 April 2005. The announcement was preceded by a large number of rumours of a new feminist party; these were concerned, in particular, with the growing feminist movement around Gudrun Schyman, a former leader of the Swedish Left Party and at that time an independent member of the Riksdag.
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