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Slowly engages harakiri with internal battles
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It is painful to witness.
Liberals are committing harakiri before our eyes.
Liberals have long been a party in crisis. The second smallest party in the Riksdag, the party entered the Riksdag thanks to the supportive votes of moderate voters in the 2018 parliamentary elections. Without them, it is unclear whether the Liberals would remain a Riksdag party.
mens the situation has not improved, on the contrary. Despite the change from party leader to Nyamko Sabuni in June of the year following the election and diligent but rather unsuccessful attempts to enter the debate, the party is firmly parked under the 4 percent barrier.
But instead of making the most of the situation and becoming relevant to the electorate, prominent members of the party engage in what should be considered a prolonged public harakiri. Or possibly advanced self-speculation.
It really began to rumble when the successful municipal politician Torkild Strandberg, who also sat in the Riksdag and heads the party’s large Skåne district, called on Nyamko Sabuni to break the January agreement between the government, the Center Party and his own party. He disapproves of collaboration with the Löfven fools.
Strong-voiced veteran MP Allan Widman agreed with Strandberg’s criticism. Public and own.
And now the pain has gotten worse. About 40 party members, Led by Mårten Hemberg, leader of the group in Sala, he demands in an open letter that the party already declares to work for a bourgeois government after the next elections and renounces the January agreement.
In all simplicity, I would like to point out that what is at stake is the credibility of the liberals. In the last election, the party promised that it would work for M’s leader, Ulf Kristersson, to become prime minister. But they also promised to minimize the influence of the Swedish Democrats.
When it was impossible to keep both promises, they chose, with width most, to keep the promise of SD. Kristersson had to fend for himself. The center came to the same conclusion.
Liberals are bad. Nyamko Sabuni is the leader of the party in which the Swedish people have the least confidence, considerably lower than, for example, Jimmie Åkesson (SD).
The only question voters thought liberals were good at, school, have played away. They are not even among the top three parties that voters believe have good policies in that area.
To this must be added strongly failed voter support. Of the 26 voter confidence polls that Aftonbladet / Demoskop has conducted since the last election, support for liberals has been below the decisive 4% barrier 19 times. The last one was in March of this year.
In that situation, a party does not have, be it the Liberals or anything else, advice participate in internal battles. That is the worst that can happen. You are doing everything wrong.
Instead, it should be about becoming relevant to the electorate, simply about having meaning. But what significance do liberals have today? Nothing. And it diminishes with each passing day of infighting, especially since it is an issue on which the party has already taken a position.
What we are witnessing is a prolonged public harakiri. It is painful to stand and watch.
Note: In the last elections, 5.5 percent voted for the Liberals.
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