Unique Party

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Unika Partiet




Leader	Linda Rosing

Founded	August 8, 2006

Political ideology	Not yet announced

Website	www.unikapartiet.se

See also the politics of Sweden series

The Unique Party (Unika partiet) is a minor Swedish political party founded by model and Big Brother participant Linda Rosing.

The party was announced late July and officially founded following a press conference in Stockholm on August 3, 2006, a little more than a month before the upcoming election. Following Rosings initiative and joining as board members were Christian Björklund och Pierre Almquist, former members of the pirate party, which also was started the same year. Cecila Beckroth, co-founder of the pirate party, also served briefly on the board before leaving.

The party is widely regarded as populist due to Rosing's background, but has nonetheless gained support from some established politicians.

The party received only 222 votes in the general election at September 17 2006, which is less than 0,01 % of the votes.

Linda Rosing has since the 2006 election stepped down as the top name of the party and is now only a board member.^{[citation needed]} She says it is possible that she will run as the top name in next election, but at the moment she wants to focus on her carreer as a singer and model. The Unique Party's next goal is to get seats in the European Parliament after the 2009 European Parliament election.