Moderate Students is a political student network within the Moderate Youth League

Moderate Youth League

The Moderate Youth League , officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives, is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. It had 12 051 members in 2010...

, the youth wing of the Swedish

Sweden

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 Moderate Party

Moderate Party

The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament...

. That makes it the official student organization of the party. The organisation was founded in 2009.

Organization

Moderate Students is a national organization that consist of student associations on various universities and campuses in Sweden.

Membership

Moderate Students is a part of the Moderate Youth League and that means that a member has a dual-membership: one of its Moderate Student association and one of Moderate Youth League, under which the member is sorted by district.

Student union parties

Moderate Students originally existed as a party in the student union at Lund University

Lund University

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 before the union was dissolved in 1998. Today, the Moderate Students again exist as parties at Uppsala University

Uppsala University

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 and Umeå University

Umeå University

Umeå University is a university in Umeå in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders....

 among others.

Politics

Moderate Students have mainly been focusing on the students' economical situation. They have so far been working for an extended work-tax reduction for young people (Swedish: jobbskatteavdrag) and for removing taxes on hard work and studies in general. They specifically want to remove the tax that apply to students who take out a student loan and work besides their studies. Moderate Students believe that hard-working students should not be punished.

Recently they have been leading the debate on the current shortage of student livings.

National boards

These are the current and past national boards of Moderate Students from the year it was founded.

• 2009

• 2010
  • Erik Persson, chairman
  • Michael Wigg, 1st vice chairman
  • Lars Hindrum
  • Ida Drougge
  • Evelina Kogsta
  • Péteris Timofejevs Henriksson

• 2011
  • Ida Drougge, chairman
  • Andrea Ström, 1st vice chairman
  • Alexandra Westman, 2nd vice chairman
  • Evelina Kogsta
  • Erik Raita
  • Simon Vallin
  • Petter Krönmark

Student associations

This is a list of the current associations present on universities and campuses in Sweden.

• Moderata studenter Blekinge (at Blekinge Institute of Technology
  Blekinge Institute of Technology
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• Moderata studenter Karlstad universitet
• Moderata studenter Lunds universitet
• Moderata studenter Hässleholms campus
• Moderata studenter Borås högskola
• Moderata studenter KTH Campus (Stockholm)
• Moderata studenter Linköpings universitet
• Moderata studenter Östersund (Mittuniversitetet)
• Moderata studenter Sundsvall (Mittuniversitetet)
• Moderata studenter SU
  SU
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   (Stockholm)
• MUF Student Uppsala
• Moderata studenter Högskolan i Skövde
• Moderata studenter Högskolan i Jönköping
• Moderata studenter Växjö Linnéuniversitetet
• Moderata studenter Kalmar Linnéuniversitetet
• Moderata studenter Umeå universitet
• Moderata studenter Örebro universitet
• Moderata studenter Mälardalens högskola
• Moderata studenter Högskolan på Gotland
• Moderata studenter Högskolan i Gävle
• Moderata studenter Högskolan Dalarna
• Moderata studenter Göteborgs universitet
• Moderata studenter Luleå tekniska universitet
• Moderata studenter Högskolan i Halmstad
• Moderata studenter Handelshögskolan (Stockholm)
• Moderata studenter Södertörns högskola (Stockholm)

See also

• Confederation of Swedish Conservative and Liberal Students
• Moderate Youth League
  Moderate Youth League
  The Moderate Youth League , officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives, is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. It had 12 051 members in 2010...
  
  
• Moderate Party
  Moderate Party
  The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament...