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In just under two years, Ulf Kristersson and Ebba Busch have succeeded in getting a large portion of their own voters to want a coalition government with Jimmie Åkesson.
Dagens Nyheter reported a poll Tuesday pointing to this. Among voters who say they support the right-wing opposition (M, SD, KD), 66 percent say they want SD in government. It can be assumed that SD supporters agree on this. This means that in the order of magnitude of 40 percent of M and KD supporters surveyed also stated that they wanted to see SD ministers in the Kristersson government.
These right-right opinions have probably always existed within M and KD. But the strength they have reached now, the two party leaders have contributed greatly, with the decisions they made after the 2018 elections.
In parliamentary debates and other contexts, it has become clear how party leaderships in M and KD have almost completely stopped speaking out against SD. They are silent, when they could have spoken clearly and enlighteningly about the large differences in values that previously existed between moderate conservatism and radical right-wing populism.
Instead, they’ve joined much of SD’s language and lines of attack. The alliance policy, as it was with Fredrik Reinfeldt and Anders Borg, has faded. Kristersson and Busch have legitimized the SD among right-wing bourgeois voters. The government they want to form will be based largely on the SD mandate, with the policy adaptations to a more right-wing and more populist tack that it will require.
The government program that exists today has the great merit of bringing it to life and builds on the active reform work that took place during the change of government from Ingvar Carlsson to the first term of Fredrik Reinfeldt. There are important liberal elements that could not be overcome with the government of the alliance. The four parts behind this show should make sense to talk more about those ambitions, to show how they are connected. You don’t feel half-hearted about some bulky commitments!
So what is the alternative, the possible “November 2022 deal”? Or the government’s program for a coalition with DS? How is the government policy where the right-wing bourgeoisie unites with the hard-line anti-liberal right-wing radicalism? The leaders of M and KD, and those who think they are comfortable with them, do not want to account for this.
But what does it mean for all budgets to join the SD, with or without the SD ministers, that Kristersson and Busch have welcomed so many of their voters? Back in the fall of 2018, it was an empty illusion, or cold insincerity, when it was presented as if an “alliance government” under Kristersson had a policy of a well-known alliance type, with no SD changing the main course. . Today the illusions should disappear.
The management of M and KD want another alliance: with SD. For this, SD will charge a price. It is very rare that Kristersson, Busch or Åkesson are faced with difficult questions about what that price will actually be.