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Reinfeldt was elected party leader on 25 October 2003, succeeding Bo Lundgren.
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Reinfeldt and was
On 6 October 2006, Bildt was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the newly formed government led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
This was seen by many as a somewhat surprising move, because Bildt had already served both as Prime Minister and as leader of the Moderate Party and the previous conflict between Bildt and Reinfeldt.
He was succeeded by the pragmatist Fredrik Reinfeldt.
Former head of the Moderate Youth Fredrik Reinfeldt was elected as the new party leader in 2003.
Following the general election held on 17 September 2006, Reinfeldt was elected Prime Minister by the new parliament on 6 October.
After the 2010 election Reinfeldt's government was reduced to a minority government but also becoming the first centre-right government since before World War II to be re-elected, making Reinfeldt the first Moderate politician elected to two consecutive terms as Prime Minister.
In 1965, Fredrik Reinfeldt was born at Allmänna BB hospital in Stockholm, as the oldest of three brothers to his parents Bruno and Birgitta Reinfeldt.
The Reinfeldt family was living in Bromsten when Fredrik's younger brothers, Magnus and Henrik, were born in 1969 and 1973.
In 1990, he became chairman of the Moderate Youth League in Stockholm, and in 1991 Reinfeldt was elected a member of the Riksdag — the Swedish Parliament.
From 1992 to 1995, Reinfeldt was the chairman of the Moderate Youth League.
The congress was controversial because it was the culmination of a long ideological battle within the Moderate Youth League between the conservatives and the libertarians ; Reinfeldt represented the conservatives and Kristersson the libertarians.
Reinfeldt later stated that although the effects of that deep ideological division and battle in the party lingered on within the Moderate Youth League, he also felt that it was a defining moment in his life.
During the period 1995 to 1997, Reinfeldt was chairman of the Democrat Youth Community of Europe.
On 14 February 1995, Reinfeldt was called to a meeting of the Moderate Party's Riksdag group, which took place in the former second chamber () of the Swedish parliament building, a meeting where Bildt apparently scolded him for hours.
After this, Reinfeldt toned down his criticism, but was ostracized within the Moderate Party and not given any important posts until after the change of leadership when Lundgren succeeded Bildt in 1999.
From 2001 to 2002, Reinfeldt was chairman of the justice committee of the Swedish parliament.
After the 2002 election, Reinfeldt was elected as leader of the Moderate Party parliamentary group, spokesman for economic policy and vice chairman of the parliament's finance committee.
During the run-up for the 2006 Swedish general election, Reinfeldt was subjected to a smear campaign.
At a press conference, Reinfeldt commented that " this feels historic in many ways " because it was the first time in years there would be a majority government in Sweden.
A day later, he was elected in the Riksdag with 175 members voting in support of Reinfeldt and 169 against him succeeding to the prime ministership.
Reinfeldt was President of the European Council from 1 July to 1 December 2009.
Reinfeldt was also responsible in this role to put EU's efforts to get into a binding agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 but this did not succeed.
Reinfeldt and elected
* Election results 2006: Fredrik Reinfeldt ( Moderate Party ) elected Prime Minister on 5 October 2006 after the victory for Alliance for Sweden in the Swedish general election, 2006.
On the other hand he is thought to have influenced Cameron, since Reinfeldt was elected party leader in 2003 — two years before Cameron took control of the British Conservative Party in 2005.
At the congress in Lycksele in 1992, Fredrik Reinfeldt, the current leader of the Moderate Party, was elected chairman, defeating the neoliberal Ulf Kristersson.
Reinfeldt and party
The current chairman of the party is Fredrik Reinfeldt, who is also Prime Minister of Sweden.
Reinfeldt has been credited for having moved the party more towards the centre in Swedish politics, which is also reflected by its own claim of being the " New Moderates ".
Fredrik Reinfeldt, leader of the party since 2003
Since Fredrik Reinfeldt became party leader, the party has slowly started to move further towards the political center and also adopted pragmatic views.
It is currently a minor party in the centre-right Alliance coalition government lead by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt following the general election of 17 September 2006.
The Christian Democrats are currently a minor party in the centre-right Alliance coalition government led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
The Centre Party is currently a minor party in the centre-right Alliance coalition government lead by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
Following the 1994 defeat of the Moderate-led coalition government, Reinfeldt adopted a critical stance against the party leadership under Carl Bildt, which resulted in isolation within the party.
Reinfeldt, who is said to dislike hard liquor and to consume wine and beer in moderate amounts, started " Conservative Youth " () and formed a bond with the mother party, eventually taking over the youth league in 1987.
At the beginning of his term as leader of the Moderate Youth League, Reinfeldt supported the government of Prime Minister Bildt, but Reinfeldt gradually changed his views and became more critical of the party leadership.
Following the defeat of the Bildt government in the Swedish general election of 1994, Reinfeldt publicly criticized the Moderate Party leader, whom he believed had gotten too much dominance in the party.
In an interview with the newspaper Stockholm City on 8 March 2004, Reinfeldt said that he preferred Bush over the Democratic Party contender John Kerry, and in a poll conducted by the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in April 2004, Reinfeldt like a large majority of his party favoured Bush over Kerry.
This provided Mona Sahlin, as leader of the biggest opposition party, with excellent opportunities to lead the opposition against PM Fredrik Reinfeldt.
The most famous being the current leader of the party, Fredrik Reinfeldt, who is a former chairman.
The Moderates dramatically increased their seats, becoming the largest party of the non-socialist bloc, a position the party retains today in the current government of Fredrik Reinfeldt.
Reinfeldt and leader
Filippa Reinfeldt, wife of Fredrik Reinfeldt ( the current Swedish Prime Minister and leader of the Moderate Party ), had been mayor of Täby for a long time, until Jan Rosenberg, of the Moderate Party, became the current mayor of Täby Municipality.
Lundgren is still respected among many Moderates for his principled stand on issues as a leader, especially since Fredrik Reinfeldt has been pursuing more centrist policies.
The current Prime Minister of Sweden is Fredrik Reinfeldt, leader of the Moderate Party.
* 2006 -: Part of a four-party coalition government under Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt.
As leader of the Moderate Party, Reinfeldt has tended to be less forceful in his criticism of the Swedish welfare state than his predecessors.
In the run-up for the Swedish general election of 2006, Reinfeldt, as leader of the Moderate Party, participated in the creation of the Alliance for Sweden.
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