Feminist Initiative (Sweden)

Feministiskt initiative ( German: Feminist Initiative; Abbreviations: Fi or F) is a political association in Sweden. The club was founded on 4 April 2005. In September 2005 from a party was formed to participate in the Swedish Parliament elections in 2006 can. Spokespersons of the organization are Gudrun Schyman and Sofia Karlsson.

The main concern of the Feminist Initiative is the attainment of equality. That is why the members for the abolition of the current marriage and partnership law put an. In its place a law is due to come to live together, that makes no documents about the way this coexistence. An economic program does not exist yet. But there are tendencies towards a posture that resembles the left-wing parties. There have already been leaks from the initial influential members, on the grounds that this left attitude does not represent all women.

In the Reichstag elections of 2006 the party got only 0.68% of the vote. In February 2007, the first party no longer wished to stand for elections decided. Later, the decision but has been revised. The Feministiskt initiative also stepped up to the parliamentary elections in 2010, but managed with a voting share of 0.40 % is not a place in the Reichstag. At the same time, held local elections the party was in Schyman home community Simrishamn 8.9% third-strongest force and received four mandates.