The entrepreneurs, Almega and LRF are left out when the Center Party invites to talks about the situation
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The Center Party has historically had close ties to several business organizations, where many high positions are held by people with a background in the party.
The organizations are formally free from party connections, but all three have recurring center-connected people in high positions. For example, the company's CEO in the years 2011–2015 was Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist.
But when she now invites to a meeting to get a common picture of the situation from external actors, the business organization is not on the invitation list. Current CEO Magnus Demervall, former Chief of Staff under Annie Lööf, is critical.
- It is remarkable that they only choose to include public employers and large companies and trade unions and do not take into account the perspective of small and medium-sized companies, he says.
The organization is close to the party in terms of opinion on, for example, the issue of a discontinued retirement allowance, which is driven by S, V and MP - but the Center Party is against it.
The employer organization Almega, which was led between 2015 and 2019 by former center leader Anna-Karin Hatt, is not invited to the meeting either. Press manager Erik Juhlin regrets that.
"It is of course a shame because the service sector employs around half of all private employees in Sweden and is directly affected by the issues being discussed", he writes in an email and continues:
"At the same time, it's not about getting a seat at the table for the sake of it, but that the decision-makers actually listen and take into account the points of view presented by business".
Should not appear as a "centre meeting"
With its history as a farmers' union, the Center Party has close ties to the National Farmers' Union LRF, where Anna-Karin Hatt was CEO before she became party leader in 2025. C-profile Emil Källström has described the relationship between the party and the LRF as "good friends, but not married".
According to people with insight, one reason why the organizations close to C were not invited is that it does not appear to be a "centre meeting". But even from LRF, they had wanted to be on site at Lidingö.
"We would have liked to have participated because we can contribute important perspectives in these conversations," writes chairman Palle Borgström, and points to issues such as food production and the forest as an engine for growth.
"These are issues that we believe are valuable to include in this type of discussion. At the same time, we conduct an ongoing dialogue with all parties and have recently had good conversations with the leadership of the Center Party".

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