June List

{{about|the Swedish political party|the Danish political party|June Movement}}

{{Infobox political party

| country = Sweden

| name = June List

| native_name = Junilistan

| colorcode = {{party color|June List}}

| logo = Image:Junilistan.svg

| foundation = 2004

| dissolution = 2014

| ideology = Euroscepticism
Decentralisation{{Cite web |url=http://junilistan.se/valplattform-2014/ |title=Valplattform 2014 « Junilistan |access-date=2018-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215130224/http://junilistan.se/valplattform-2014/ |archive-date=2015-02-15 |url-status=dead }}http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/1.176998-junilistan-till-riksdagsvalet {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}
Regionalism

| position = Left-wing{{cite journal |quote="Persson, like so many critics of populism, refuses to recognise the important difference between the two types of populist party, between the exclusionary, nationalist populism of the BNP (and of its sister parties in various countries such as the French Front National (National Front) and the Belgian Vlaams Belang (Flemish interest)) and the empowering, left-wing liberal movements such as the June List." |page=72 |title=The spectre of Austria - Reappraising the rise of the Freedom Party from 1986 to 2000 |first=Goran |last=Adamson |date=8 September 2009 |publisher=ProQuest LLC. |journal=London School of Economics and Political Science |issue=2383 |url=https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2383/1/U615332.pdf}}

| international =

| european = EUDemocrats

| europarl = Independence/Democracy (2004–2009)

| colours = Orange

| headquarters = Vasagatan 40, Stockholm

| website = junilistan.se (defunct)

}}

The June List ({{langx|sv|Junilistan}}, jl) was a Swedish left Eurosceptic political party. Founded in 2004, it received 14% in the European Parliament election of the same year - gaining three seats. In the elections of 2009, however, it saw a drop of 11 percentage points in support and lost all of its seats.

{{cite web

| url = http://junilistan.se/?page_id=230

| title = June List official website

| publisher = Junilistan

| accessdate = 21 November 2011

}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Due to its subsequent decline the party has been inactive since the 2014 European Parliament election.{{cite web |author1=June List |title=Junilistan i malpåse |url=http://junilistan.se/2014/10/27/junilistan-i-malpase-2/ |access-date=17 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215103241/http://junilistan.se/2014/10/27/junilistan-i-malpase-2/ |archive-date=2015-02-15 |language=sv |url-status=dead}}

The party also ran in the Swedish 2006 parliamentary election, but it only received 0.47% of the votes, far below the 4% needed to get into parliament.

History

= Foundation =

The party was formed in 2003 in the wake of the Swedish euro referendum held in September, in which the adoption of the euro was rejected. The party was founded by Nils Lundgren, former member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and chief economist of the bank Nordea, Lars Wohlin, former member of the Christian Democrats and Jesper Katz.{{cite news |title=Ordföranden för junilistan avgår |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/ordforanden-for-junilistan-avgar |access-date=18 November 2024 |work=Sveriges Television |agency=TT |date=2008-03-16}}

Lundgren hoped to receive support from eurosceptical voters dissatisfied with their usual parties' positive attitudes towards the euro and further European integration. Among the Swedish parties represented in parliament at the time, only the Left Party, Center Party and the Green Party were eurosceptic, while the Social Democratic Party, the major left-wing party, and all right-wing parties with exception of the Center party were positive towards European integration. Aiming at receiving support from this broad political spectrum, the board of the party contained people that had been previously active in both left- and right-wing parties.{{cite web | url = http://www.junilistan.se/?p=95;96;145 | title = Styrelseledamöter | publisher = Junilistan | accessdate = 2008-01-28 | language = Swedish | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://archive.today/20070422172939/http://www.junilistan.se/?p=95;96;145 | archivedate = 2007-04-22 }} {{cite news |title=Vänsterprofiler lämnar Junilistan |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/vansterprofiler-lamnar-junilistan |access-date=18 November 2024 |work=Sveriges Television |date=2005-11-25}}

The party takes its name from the June Movement in Denmark, which is a eurosceptic party named after the timing of the Danish referendum that rejected the Treaty of Maastricht. The June Movement was also a major source of inspiration for the June List.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= In the European Parliament (2004–2009) =

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The party succeeded in capturing 14% of the votes in the 2004 European Parliament election, thereby gaining three of the 19 Swedish seats.{{cite web |title=Valpresentationen EU-valet 2004 |url=https://historik.val.se/val/ep2004/resultat/slutresultat/index.html |publisher=Swedish Election Authority |access-date=19 November 2024 |language=sv}} The three MEPs were Nils Lundgren, former social democrat Hélène Goudin and former Christian democrat Lars Wohlin. The June List was one of the founding members of the Independence and Democracy group in the European Parliament.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

In 2006 Wohlin, left the June List for the Christian Democrats, leaving the party with only two seats. Wohlin stated that he wanted to be able to "work for the Christian Democrats and the Alliance for Sweden in the 2006 parliamentary election" as reason for leaving the June List.

{{cite web

| url = http://www.larswohlin.se/default.asp?id=192&start=0&sida=1&slut=10&antal=10

| title = Därför lämnar jag Junilistan och går till Kristdemokraterna

| first = Lars

| last = Wohlin

| accessdate = 2008-01-28

| language = Swedish

| url-status = dead

| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070724143147/http://www.larswohlin.se/default.asp?id=192&start=0&sida=1&slut=10&antal=10

| archivedate = 2007-07-24

}}

The June List was on the ballot for the 2006 parliamentary elections in Sweden. The party's platform during the election focused on a few main issues: to increase the number of people working in the private sector, hence increasing the state's tax income, a referendum on the European Union constitution and nuclear power, and increased municipal autonomy and more local referendums. All issues that were not in the party's relatively short party program were left to the approximately 100 candidates to decide on. The voters were encouraged to choose to vote for a particular June List candidate that they preferred rather than to cast a general ballot for the party itself.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

At one point, it seemed possible that the party might be able to break the 4% threshold necessary to enter parliament,{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}} with the party reaching 4.5% in the polls in September 2005, but after that peak the party's support plummeted well below the 4% barrier and in the months before the election it became clear that the party would not be taking seats in parliament that year. In the end, the party received only 26,072 votes (0.47%).{{cite web |title=Valpresentation 2006 |url=https://historik.val.se/val/val2006/slutlig/R/rike/ovriga.html |publisher=Swedish Election Authority |access-date=19 November 2024 |language=sv}}

Nils Lundgren resigned as party leader in March 2008. The party decided to elect two co-leaders instead of one party leader. They elected Sören Wibe, former MEP and MP for the Swedish Social Democratic Party, and Annika Eriksson, long-time member of the party's governing board.{{cite news |last1=Ottosson |first1=Joakim |title=Wibe och Eriksson nya partiledare för Junilistan |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Xw93bm/wibe-och-eriksson-nya-partiledare-for-junilistan |access-date=19 November 2024 |work=Aftonbladet |date=6 June 2008 |language=sv}} Eriksson resigned after five months in January 2009 because of disagreements with Wibe and the party governing board.{{cite AV media|last1=Arenander |first1=Inger |date=2009-01-22 |title=Partiledare för Junilistan hoppar av |type=Radio broadcast |language=sv |url=https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/2584763 |publisher=Dagens Eko }}

Swedish businessman Sven Hagströmer, one of the two men who gave his name to the Hagströmer & Qviberg group of companies, served on the board of the party.

= Decline (2009-2014) =

The June List suffered a significant decline in its support at the 2009 European Parliament election and lost all of its seats in the European parliament.{{cite web |title=Valpresentationen EU-valet 2009 |url=https://historik.val.se/val/ep2009/slutresultat/rike/index.html |publisher=Swedish Election Authority |access-date=19 November 2024 |language=sv}} The party had hoped that Wibe would attract Eurosceptic voters.{{cite AV media|last1=Eriksson |first1=Mats |date=2010-12-30 |title=Sören Wibe har avlidit 64 år gammal |type=Radio broadcast |language=sv |url=https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/4267531 |publisher=Dagens Eko }} After the election, the party elected Wibe and {{ill|Birgitta Swedenborg|sv|Birgitta Swedenborg}} as co-leaders. Wibe died on 29 December 2010 after a short illness, leaving Swedenborg as sole party leader until she resigned in 2013.{{cite news |title=Sökes: Partiledare för Junilistan |url=https://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/sokes-partiledare-for-junilistan.9ba1396c-3816-49f5-b0ab-21671fd1e9de |access-date=9 December 2024 |work=Göteborgs-Posten |agency=TT |date=6 November 2013}}

The party was briefly revived for the 2014 European Parliament election. The party selected {{ill|Jörgen Appelgren|sv|Jörgen Appelgren}}, former chief economist of Nordea and member of the Social Democratic Party, as the new party leader and front-runner.{{cite AV media|last1=Melzer |first1=Herman |date=17 February 2014 |title=Sören Wibe har avlidit 64 år gammal |type=Radio broadcast |language=sv |url=https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/5786684 |publisher=Dagens Eko |access-date=9 December 2024}} The second front-runner was Camilla Lindberg, former MP for the Liberal People's Party.{{cite news |last1=Larsson |first1=Lars-Gunnar |title=FP-Camilla byter parti |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/dalarna/fp-camilla-byter-parti |access-date=21 November 2024 |work=Sveriges Television |date=2014-02-17}} The party received only 11,629 votes nationwide.{{cite web |title=Valpresentationen EU-valet 2014 |url=https://historik.val.se/val/ep2014/slutresultat/E/rike/index.html |publisher=Swedish Election Authority |access-date=19 November 2024 |language=sv}}

Election results

= Parliament (''Riksdag'') =

class=wikitable
Election ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! +/- ! Government ! {{Tooltip\|Ref.\|References}}
2006 \| 26,072 \| 0.47 \| {{Composition bar\|0\|349\|hex={{party color\|June List}}}} \| New \| {{no\|Extra-parliamentary}} \|

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Election

! Votes

! %

! Seats

! +/-

! Government

! {{Tooltip|Ref.|References}}

2006

| 26,072

| 0.47

| {{Composition bar|0|349|hex={{party color|June List}}}}

| New

| {{no|Extra-parliamentary}}

= European Parliament =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
Election ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! +/- ! {{Tooltip\|Ref.\|References}}
2004 \| 363,472 \| 14.47 \| {{Composition bar\|3\|22\|hex={{party color\|June List}}}} \| New \|
2009 \| 112,355 \| 3.55 \| {{Composition bar\|0\|22\|hex={{party color\|June List}}}} \| {{decrease}} 3 \|
2014 \| 11,629 \| 0.31 \| {{Composition bar\|0\|22\|hex={{party color\|June List}}}} \| bgcolor="lightgrey"\| \|

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Election

! Votes

! %

! Seats

! +/-

! {{Tooltip|Ref.|References}}

2004

| 363,472

| 14.47

| {{Composition bar|3|22|hex={{party color|June List}}}}

| New