Context: The Ebbe Carlsson scandal was a major political scandal in Sweden occurring in 1988. The affair came to public knowledge on 1 June 1988, when the evening newspaper "Expressen" revealed that Ebbe Carlsson, a journalist and publisher and former secretary at the Swedish Government, was carrying out an independent and illegal investigation into the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme, secretly supported by the minister for justice Anna-Greta Leijon., Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: ), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of 10.0 million. Sweden consequently has a low population density of , with the highest concentration in the southern half of the country. Approximately 85% of the population lives in urban areas., Central European Time (CET), used in most parts of the European Union and a few North African countries, is a standard time which is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time offset from UTC can be written as . The same standard time, , is also known as Middle European Time (MET, German: ) and under other names like Berlin Time, Romance Standard Time (RST), Paris Time or Rome Time., The assassination of Olof Palme occurred when Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was assassinated on Friday 28 February 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden, at 23:21 hours Central European Time (22:21 UTC). Palme was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Mrs Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time., Stockholm (or ) is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 932,917 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area. The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago and the Baltic Sea. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by a Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the capital of Stockholm County., Nils `` Ebbe '' Knut Carlsson ( 28 September 1947 -- 3 August 1992 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish journalist and publisher with connections within the Social Democratic leadership and the Cabinet of Sweden . He became infamous through the `` Ebbe Carlsson affair , '' when he had got permission to investigate the assassination of Olof Palme . On 30 November 1991 , he made public in an interview with Stina Dabrowski that he was HIV positive and was suffering from AIDS . He was one of the first famous Swedish people to make this public . Carlsson received medical treatment at the AIDS clinic of Huddinge Hospital during the last months of his life ., Sven Olof Joachim Palme (30 January 1927  28 February 1986) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician, statesman and prime minister. A longtime protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party (S) from 1969 until his assassination in 1986, and was a two-term Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet government from 1982 until his death. Electoral defeats in 1976 and 1979 marked the end of Social Democratic hegemony in Swedish politics, which had seen 40 years of unbroken rule by the party. While leader of the opposition, he parted domestic and international interests and served as special mediator of the United Nations in the IranIraq War, and was President of the Nordic Council in 1979. He returned as Prime Minister after electoral victories in 1982 and 1985., Subject: ebbe carlsson, Relation: member_of_political_party, Options: (A) independent (B) swedish social democratic party (C) union
Output: swedish social democratic party