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Moderate Students
Moderata studenter
Chairperson Ida Drougge Founded 2008 Membership 2500 members[citation needed] Ideology Liberal conservatism Mother party Moderate Party National affiliation Moderate Youth League Website mst.muf.se Moderate Students (Swedish: Moderata studenter, MST) is a political student network within the Moderate Youth League, the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. That makes it the official student organization of the party. The organisation was founded in 2009.
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History
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 before the union was dissolved in 1998. Today, the Moderate Students again exist as parties at Uppsala University and Umeå University 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[1]
- 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.[2][3]
- Moderata studenter Blekinge (at Blekinge Institute of Technology)
- 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 (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
References
- ^ Contact information of the MST national board at [1]
- ^ Corresponding section in article in the Swedish edition of .
- ^ List of associations on official site
External links
- Moderate Students website (in Swedish)
Categories:- Student wings of political parties in Sweden
- Student wings of conservative parties
- Moderate Party
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