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{{WikipediaQuote|URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Party_(Sweden)}}
<blockquote>The Centre Party (Swedish: '''Centerpartiet''', abbreviated '''C''') is a liberal and Nordic agrarian political party in [[Sweden]]. Traditionally part of the Nordic agrarian family, the party has increasingly shifted its focus towards free market economics, environmental protection, gender equality and decentralisation of governmental authority. The party's major issues are national economy, environment and integration and it is represented in all of the Riksdag's parliamentary committees.</blockquote>
On 28 September 28 2019, the Center Meeting of the Centre Party has decided with 314 against 166 votes<ref>{{REFweb
|quote=
|url=http://www.barometern.se/ledare/oanstandigt-centerpartiet/
|date=2019-09-29
|accessdate=2019-09-29
}}</ref> that the Centre Party should work to forbid the medical not intended [[circumcision ]] of boys in Sweden.<ref name="Aftonbladed">{{REFweb
|url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Wbdn8j/centern-vill-forbjuda-omskarelse-pa-pojkar
|title=Centern vill förbjuda omskärelse på pojkar
}}</ref>
The party leadership warned that it will be perceived that the party wants to ban [[Judaism ]] and [[Islam]], although the debate was not at all about religion, but about the child rights perspective and the integrity perspective. However, the assembly adopted another proposal, which means that the Center should work to prohibit [[circumcision ]] that is not done for medical reasons.<ref name="Aftonbladed"/><ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/centern-vill-forbjuda-omskarelse-pa-pojkar
|title=Centern vill förbjuda omskärelse på pojkar – partiledningen varnar
== Usual reactions ==
The Council of Swedish Jewish Communities ''(Judiska Centralrådet i Sverige)'' timely reacted in the same way as known from all other countries where political parties raise the idea of [[genital integrity ]] for children: The very idea of prohibiting circumcision would be an attack on [[Judaism]]. The ritual would be indispensable. Jewish life would become impossible. No single word about the boys and their own [[human rights]].<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.judiskacentralradet.se/single-post/2019/09/28/Centerst%C3%A4mmans-beslut-om-att-f%C3%B6rbjuda-omsk%C3%A4relse-%C3%A4r-en-attack-mot-svenska-judar
|title=Centerstämmans beslut om att förbjuda omskärelse är en attack mot svenska judar
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}}</ref>
== Youth association leader leaves ==
After the party's discussion about a ban on [[circumcision]], Dana Pourkomeylian, until then leader of the Centerpartiet's youth association (CUF, Centerpartiets Ungdomsförbund), left the CUF due to internal disagreements. According to the CUF, the youth association is behind Pourkomeylian's views on the issue of circumcision and the disagreement consists of something else.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/dana-pourkomeylian-lamnar-cuf-efter-debatten-om-omskarelse
|title=Hon hoppar av efter omskärelsebeslutet
|trans-title=She jumps off after the circumcision decision
|language=Swedish
|date=2019-10-25
|accessdate=2019-10-26
}}</ref>
== IntactiWiki assessment ==
This doesn't mean the Centre Party has yet decided to really outlaw genital mutilation on boys in [[Sweden]]. In fact, the Centre Party isn't part of the current Swedish government and has rather low influence on political decisions which lead to new laws. Nevertheless, it is interesting that the party leaders engage in pre-emptive obedience to [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitism ]] rather than focusing on the rights of the child. The party base obviously sees this differently. They managed to give the party mind the task of proposing a draft law that prohibits medically uninduced genital mutilation in children in Sweden.
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Anti-Semitism club]]
* [[:Category:Party]]
* [[Rights situation on circumcision#Sweden]]* [[Sweden]]
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* {{URLwikipedia|Centre_Party_(Sweden)|Centre Party (Sweden)|2019-09-29}}
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