Liberal People's Party (Sweden)
The Liberal People's Party (Swedish: Folkpartiet liberalerna, FP) is a liberal and conservative-liberal political party in Sweden. It is currently a minor party in the centre-right Alliance coalition government lead by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt following the general election of 17 September 2006. A. At the same time, the party experienced a drop in seats from being the third largest (slightly behind the Moderate Party) to the fourth largest party in the Riksdag, which it has remained since.
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