The Direct Democrats ( sv, Direktdemokraterna, DD) is a Swedish non-affiliated neutral political party, based on the principles of

liquid democracy Liquid democracy is a form of delegative democracy, whereby an electorate engages in collective decision-making through direct participation and dynamic representation. This democratic system utilizes elements of both direct and representat ...

, a form of

direct democracy Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the Election#Electorate, electorate decides on policy initiatives without legislator, elected representatives as proxies. This differs from the majority of currently establishe ...

. The Direct Democrats believe that the electorate should be able to directly influence their DD representatives by voting on political issues and policy proposals through the Internet. The party received 0.08% of the vote in the 2018 general election, making it the fourth largest party with no representation in the

Riksdag The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ...

History

The Direct Democrats party was approved by the

Swedish Election Authority The Swedish Election Authority ( sv, Valmyndigheten) is a government agency responsible for organizing national elections and referendums in Sweden. The agency began its operations on 1 July 2001 when it took over the responsibilities from the Sw ...

April 4, 2014. This new party was a merger of three direct democracy parties;

Demoex Demoex, an appellation short for ''democracy experiment'', is a local Swedish political party and an experiment with direct democracy in Vallentuna, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. It uses the Internet to make it possible for any member to partic ...

, Aktiv Demokrati, and Äkta Demokrati. DD's short-term goal was to introduce the idea of direct digital democracy (DDD) in Sweden by running for election in 2014. The party received 0.02% of the vote in that year's election.

Digital democracy application

The Direct Democrats party voted in the end of 2016 to use a system for digital democracy being developed by the Swedish non-profit, iGov.Direct® Foundation to be released ahead of the Swedish 2018 September election.

Results in the general election of Sweden

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* {{Swedish political parties Direct democracy parties Political parties established in 2014 E-democracy 2014 establishments in Sweden Minor political parties in Sweden

History

Digital democracy application

Results in the general election of Sweden

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