Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986. Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986.
Palme in 1984
Palme as a student in 1944
Palme and his wife Lisbeth on their honeymoon in 1956
Palme in 1957
Swedish Social Democratic Party
The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, usually referred to as The Social Democrats, is a centre-left social-democratic and democratic socialist political party in Sweden. Globally, it is a full member of the Progressive Alliance and the Party of European Socialists.
Hjalmar Branting, the first elected SAP Prime Minister in 1920
Prime Minister Tage Erlander at a TV debate in 1967
Social Democratic leader and Prime Minister Olof Palme in the 1970s
Göran Persson, a prolific Social Democratic leader, holding the office of Prime Minister for ten years