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Leif Cassel
Leif Delling Cassel (8 December 1906 – 24 December 1988) was a Swedish politician and lawyer. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 1970, first as a member of Första kammaren, the upper house from 1950 to 1952 and then as a member of the Andra kammaren, lower house from 1953 to 1970. He was Second Vice President of the lower house from 1965 to 1970. He was President of the Nordic Council in 1969. Cassel was also Vice President of the Moderate Party from 1956 to 1965.''Vem är det : Svensk biografisk handbok 1953'', ed. Stina Svensson, P A Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm 1953 p. 192 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Första Kammaren
The (literally "First Chamber", often abbreviated 'FK'; referred to in some non-Swedish sources as the Senate) was the upper house of the bicameral Riksdag of Sweden between 1866 and 1970 that replaced the Riksdag of the Estates. During the bicameral period, the lower house of the Riksdag was the Andra kammaren (literally "the Second Chamber"). Both chambers had generally similar and parallel powers. At the time of its abolition, the First Chamber had 151 members. These were indirectly elected for eight-year terms of office, from amongst the county councils (''landsting'') and city councils (''stadsfullmäktige''), which formed electoral colleges, some of which holding elections every year, with local elections being held every four years in even years when elections to the Second Chamber were not due to be held. During a large portion of the long tenure of power for the Social Democrats (between 1932 and 1976), the party remained in control of legislation thanks to its stro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andra Kammaren
The Andra kammaren (lit. "Second Chamber", often abbreviated 'AK'; referred to in some non-Swedish sources as the Chamber of Deputies) was the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Riksdag of Sweden between 1866 and 1970 that replaced the Riksdag of the Estates. The upper house was the Första kammaren. At the time of its abolition the chamber had 233 members, who were elected for four-year terms of office by men and women over the age of twenty. Volume 24, Dan Golenpaul, McGraw-Hill, 1970, page 358 Both chambers had the same powers. At the last 1968 Swedish general election, general election in 1968, the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Social Democrats received more than half the votes. Early compositio ...
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Nordic Council
The Nordic Council is the official body for formal inter-parliamentary Nordic cooperation among the Nordic countries. Formed in 1952, it has 87 representatives from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden as well as from the autonomous areas of the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland. The representatives are members of parliament in their respective countries or areas and are elected by those parliaments. The Council holds ordinary sessions each year in October/November and usually one extra session per year with a specific theme. The council's official languages are Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish, though it uses only the mutually intelligible Scandinavian languages—Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish—as its working languages. These three comprise the first language of around 80% of the region's population and are learned as a second or foreign language by the remaining 20%. In 1971, the Nordic Council of Ministers, an intergovernmental for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moderate Party
The Moderate Party ( , , M), commonly referred to as the Moderates ( ), is a Liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative* * * * * List of political parties in Sweden, political party in Sweden. The party generally supports tax cuts, the free market, civil liberties and economic liberalism. Globally, it is a full member of the International Democracy Union and the European People's Party. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League ( ) by a group of conservatives in the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament. The party was later known as The Right ( ; 1938–1952) and Right Party ( ; 1952–1969). During this time, the party was usually called the Conservative Party outside of Sweden. After holding minor posts in centre-right governments, the Moderates eventually became the leading opposition party to the Swedish Social Democratic Party and since then those two parties have dominated Swedish politics. After the 1991 Swedish general election, party leader Carl Bildt fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vem är Det
''Vem är det'', with the subtitle ''Svensk biografisk handbok'', is a Swedish ''Who's Who'' biographical reference publication which has been published in 46 editions since 1912. References External links''Vem är det''at Project Runeberg Project Runeberg () is a digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries. Patterned after Project Gutenberg, it was founded by Lars Aronsson and ... Swedish biographical dictionaries {{bio-dict-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Riksdag From The Moderate Party
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1906 Births
Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the National Consultative Assembly, Majlis. * January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between French Third Republic, France and German Empire, Germany. * January 22 – The strikes a reef off Vancouver Island, Canada, killing over 100 (officially 136) in the ensuing disaster. * January 31 – The 1906 Ecuador–Colombia earthquake, Ecuador–Colombia earthquake (8.8 on the Moment magnitude scale), and associated tsunami, cause at least 500 deaths. * February 7 – is launched, sparking a Anglo-German naval arms race, naval race between Britain and Germany. * February 11 ** Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical ''Vehementer Nos'', de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
