Swedish Social Democratic Party (1814: Norwegian Independence)

The Swedish Social Democratic Party (Swedish: Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti, SAP) is a social democratic political party in Sweden, the oldest current existing party in the country. The party was formed in 1889 by socialists inspired by the writing of Karl Marx and the socialist SPD in Germany. The party became and are in many ways still, the party of the working class. While it was forbidden and persecuted under the years of the military regime, after the fall of said regime, the Social Democrats managed to dominate in the democratic Sweden that followed.

In its early years, the party wanted voting right to all adult men and women, and the introduction of worker rights. It had a hard time to gain power before 1946, and while gaining most seats in the Riksdag in many elections, other parties where hesitant to cooperate with them.

When the military took power in 1932, the Social Democrats was one of the political forces that opposed it. This would see a time where they used their influence to arrange many worker strikes and uprisings. Most of these was crushed, and the party itself was illegalized. Under the dictatorship, the leadership of the Social Democrats had to either flee to neighboring countries or go underground.

After the dicatorship was disbanded, the Social Democrats was insential in reestablishing democracy in Sweden. Many in the Social Democrats wanted a Swedish Republic, but they accepted a constitutional monarchy, put forward by liberal and conservative politicians.

Today, the current leader of the Social Democrats is Stefan Löfven.