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On Tuesday, the Riksdag reconvenes and the second half of the mandate begins. It has been a dramatic two years. It started with a difficult 131-day government training and was followed by a pandemic.
Before the last elections several party leaders avoided answering in which government they wanted to participate if the situation of public opinion persisted. That was the reason for four months of anguish and betrayed promises.
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Have you learned anything this time? Will we even see two new government alternatives? The first could be the January holidays, which now cooperate on the budget. The second may be a right-wing bloc with M and KD in government that depends on cooperation with SD on the budget.
But they also seem insecure.
“I can be honest and say that I carry that thought in my head every day,” Liberals president Nyamko Sabuni responds when Sydsvenskan asked him last week when it was time to leave the January collaboration.
L’s current leadership seems increasingly uncomfortable with his partners. Support for the government is trembling worryingly in both L and MP, even though parties have only had to settle for record budget space.
Nyamko Sabuni said in the interview with Sydsvenskan that he feels a much greater ideological affiliation with the leader of M Ulf Kristersson than with Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S).
The message that M I can imagine that a budget collaboration with SD has obviously not shaken Nyamko Sabuni’s sense of belonging.
The current L-leader has never been heard to make blunt remarks against SD like Representative Jan Björklund did.
And Ulf Kristersson of the moderates has, of course, noted the anguish of the liberals. He told SVT last week that he would like liberals to become part of the core of a bourgeois government. He didn’t mention Annie Lööfs Centern at all, which again confirms that the old Alliance is dead.
Nyamko Sabuni looks tempted. But it can be difficult to get the party and the electorate to change teams. Liberal voters still have their aversion to a government based on SD cooperation, shows the new DN / Ipsos. The poll also reduces the proportion of voters who want to see a collaboration with SD for the first time.
Now, of course, the question of the government does not depend only on the liberals. The party runs the risk of completely abandoning the Riksdag in the next election.
If M, KD and SD manage to get a majority of the votes, no L is needed. Then the country ends up in a new situation, as the author and columnist Per T Ohlsson pointed out in Sydsvenskan. “At no time since the advance of universal and equal suffrage in 1918-1921 has Sweden been ruled by a pure right-wing majority in the Riksdag.”
So far, representatives have for M and KD, cooperation with SD is often spoken of in terms of “receiving support from” SD or cooperating on matters where they still feel the same way. But if all three (or possibly four) parties work together on budgets, it won’t be enough. A budget is a whole that covers many policy areas and, in practice, several years ahead. It requires tough compromises. There is nothing to say that it is always SD, who is almost as big as M in public opinion, who will give up. It can be the other way around. SD’s most important political model, the Danish People’s Party, chose to stay out of the Danish governments in order to gain further approval of its policy using its role as a condition for the government’s existence.
At the break, the new patterns of cooperation are clearly visible. Still, most indications are that voters can count on buying the pig in the bag once again, when it comes to the essence of politics. The days when clear government alternatives presented elaborate electoral manifestos is long gone. It shows how difficult the government issue can be in 2022 as well.
