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One might think that the Alliance and the Democrats should be able to work together: the Democrats are, by all accounts, a bourgeois party that often votes like the Alliance in council votes.
But it is also easy to understand that it is not so simple. After all, Martin Wannholt was kicked out of the moderates, formed his own, and took both members and voters with him.
Play with the idea that Ann-Sofie Hermansson did the same when, against her will, she had to leave the group leader position at S. Was Jonas Attenius’ first thought really to start a collaboration? No, certainly not.
Even worse relationships
Not surprisingly, what was effectively a party explosion sparked mutual distrust and easily broken wounds. And there are many signs that relations between Martin Wannholt and the two main representatives of the alliance in the city, Axel Josefson and Helene Odenjung, are worse today in relation to the elections.
Martin Wannholt has openly said that he completely lacks confidence in Josefson and Odenjung. The last two have not been as explicit, but that doesn’t mean they are particularly easy on the Democratic founders.
Anyone who has listened to Axel Josefson knows that “order” is one of his favorite expressions. It is no coincidence that under his leadership action plans are being drawn up on how to get rid of vulnerable areas in the city and a few other things. The structure is a guiding star.
The same goes for Helene Odenjung, who has a great respect for regulations and takes care that things are done the right way and in the right order.
Lose your own meetings
Martin Wannholt is more about emotion. He has a rare ability to capture subjects that involve people. Find solutions where others see locks mostly. At the same time, he is a man who can skip meetings that he himself called, and when his party organized a press conference to present its budget proposal, two days before the budget was drawn up, he was not even ready.
If you understand. The big question is really who would go crazy only if they were forced to cooperate.
Now, as you know, things can change. Helene Odenjung will retire at the end of the year and her successor, Axel Darvik, has a more open attitude towards cooperation with Democrats. And it is difficult to know what the leadership of the moderates will look like in the future. Signs within the party indicate that not all forces are pulling in exactly the same direction, to put it mildly.
Good collaboration with Magnusson
Already today, the Democrats have a collaboration that works well with the alliance, including the moderates, on various committees. Not least in urban planning matters where Hampus Magnusson and Martin Wannholt seem to have found each other so well that there are those who wonder which of them really has the president’s club.
But politics are not just opinions and people, they are also mathematics. And if you look at the mandates, you’ll find another reason why it wouldn’t have been a particularly good idea with a formalized collaboration.
Together, the Alliance and the Democrats had won 38 of the 81 seats in the General Assembly.
It is much more than the alliance has on its own, but it is not a majority. The result was that the Swedish Democrats were assigned an extremely important role. Anytime a proposal leaned too far to the right for S, V, MP, and Fi, SD support would have been a must.
But even that can look different after the election.
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