Kommunens Bästa – Ölandspartiet

Kommunens Bästa – Ölandspartiet a local political party in Öland, Sweden. KBÖ is one of the older Swedish local populist parties, having had representation in the Borgholm municipality, the northern half of the island, for many years. The party is led by the controversial figure Per Lublin.

Ahead of the 2002 municipal elections KBÖ launched a list in the second municipality of Öland, Mörbylånga.

In 2002 elections the party got 341 votes (4.8%) in Borgholm, winning two seats (Evert Johansson and Per Lublin). In Mörbylånga the party got 675 votes (8.0%) and four seats. In Glömminge electoral district, near the border to Borgholm, KBÖ got 19.4% of the votes (74 votes). On the other side of the municipality, at the southerhn tip of the island, the party only got 1.4% of the votes.

Lublin has claimed that he wants to turn Öland into an independent monarchy with princess Märtha Louise of Norway as its regent, but that is not taken as a serious demand.

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