Green Party

The Green Party was founded in 1981 in Örebro. The background was the environmental and peace movements and the struggle over nuclear power around the 1980 referendum. From the start the party chose to be led by two spokespersons instead of a party leader.

In the 1988 election the party entered the Riksdag with 5.5 percent, the first new party there in seven decades. It dropped out in 1991 but came back in 1994 and has been in the Riksdag ever since. From 1998 the party cooperated with the Social Democratic governments, and after the 2014 election it formed a government together with the Social Democrats under Stefan Löfven. The party left the government in 2021 and has been in opposition since. In the 2026 election the party increased by one percentage point compared with 2022.

The party programme from 2025 is based on three solidarities: with animals, nature and the ecological system, with future generations and with all the world's people. The party writes that "Our goal is a society where everyone can live good lives within the limits of nature" and that "the planet's boundaries are not negotiable". On working life, the programme says that "Shorter working hours are a freedom reform".

The 2026 election manifesto summarises the party's line as "With our policies we cut emissions, strengthen equality and protect nature." The party wants "those who emit the most should pay the most" and writes about electricity supply that "New nuclear power is not the solution".

The Green Party wants to raise taxes on high incomes and large fortunes and use the money for climate and welfare. In its budget motion for 2026 the party proposes that the tax-free amount on investment savings accounts be 50,000 kronor instead of the government's 300,000, which according to the party yields 11.2 billion kronor. A temporary tax on the banks' net interest income is to yield 12.5 billion. The earned income tax credit is to be phased out for high incomes and a new bracket threshold introduced at 70,000 kronor a month, which the party estimates at 16.4 billion. The party says no to the government's latest earned income tax credit.

The party wants to raise the child allowance by 350 kronor a month, give extra support to single parents and halve VAT on repairs. It also wants to introduce a target for public investment alongside the balance target of the fiscal policy framework. Financing according to the budget motion for 2026: the tax increases above.

The Green Party wants to lower normal working hours step by step to 35 hours a week together with the social partners, with a four-day week as a vision. The party wants to abolish the sick-pay qualifying deduction and reduce employers' sick pay responsibility. Unemployment insurance is to be phased down by 5 instead of 10 percentage points after 100 days. In the budget motion the party sets aside 480 million kronor for labour market measures and education, 300 million for the Public Employment Service's local offices and 50 million for young people who neither work nor study.

The Green Party wants to put the emphasis on preventing crime. The party sets aside 1 billion kronor a year for measures for children at risk and 300 million for social services, and wants 500 million of the police appropriation to go to community police officers and civilian staff. The party wants to set up an authority against segregation and a programme for people who want to leave criminal gangs.

The party says that children should not be in prison and wants to reform the state youth homes and residential care homes (HVB), give young people the right to aftercare up to age 25 and introduce a crime victims act. It also wants to step up efforts against smuggling of weapons and explosives and on the gangs' crimes against the welfare systems, and to have high penalties for sexual offences.

The Green Party wants Sweden to receive at least 5,000 quota refugees a year and permanent residence permits to become the main rule again. The party wants to reintroduce the ground "particularly distressing circumstances" and the possibility of changing track, stop deportations of people who have put down roots in Sweden and let children up to age 21 get residence permits as family members. The daily allowance for asylum seekers is to be raised from 71 to around 130 kronor, which the party estimates at 113 million kronor, and asylum seekers are to be able to study Swedish for immigrants (SFI). The party says no to stricter requirements for citizenship and for family reunification.

The Green Party wants to introduce a Swedish system for emissions trading for road traffic and heating, designed like the EU's upcoming system, where the revenue is paid out to households. The party proposes a higher carbon price on petrol and that 4.05 billion kronor be paid out as a "green dividend" in rural areas. The aviation tax is to be reintroduced and doubled, and flights by private jet are to be taxed at 20,000 kronor, which according to the party yields 3.5 billion a year.

The party wants to build 10 gigawatts of renewable electricity with steady output by 2030 with 6 billion in investment support, and says no to the government's support for new nuclear power. In the long term the party wants to phase out nuclear power. A "Sweden card" for public transport is to cost 499 kronor a month and half that for young people, students and pensioners, at a cost of 11.1 billion. The railways get 18 billion more in investment and 6 billion more in maintenance, and low-income households in rural areas are to be able to lease an electric car.

The Green Party wants to give municipalities and regions 2.5 billion kronor in general government grants and 3 billion more for health care. The investment in women's health and maternity care is to be restored to 1.6 billion, and psychiatry is to get 500 million. Dental care is to be free of charge again up to age 23, and in the long term dental care is to be included in the high-cost protection like other care. The party wants to restore the high-cost protection for medicines to its previous level, strengthen primary care and defend LSS (the disability support act).

The Green Party wants to ban limited companies with a profit motive from running schools but keep free school choice, and for the state to take greater responsibility for school funding. The equivalence grant is to be raised by 1.5 billion kronor and preschool is to get 500 million. The free general preschool is to be expanded from 15 to 30 hours a week, with 20 hours as the first step. The party wants to raise the student grant by 300 kronor a month and says no to grades in the middle years of compulsory school.