Åkesson: "We have no plans to move"

During election night, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, M, was clear that if the red-green parties failed to form a government, he would try to gather a non-socialist majority, with the help of the Center Party.

But when he faced the press about his probe mission on Tuesday, he wasn't very hopeful. Now he has a week to try to get the Center Party to enter into some kind of collaboration with the Sweden Democrats despite the Center's red lines.

- I can see in front of me that it will be difficult, probably very difficult, he told the journalists in the Riksdag.

But there is a chance to turn the Moderates' election loss into success. At least Muf top Douglas Thor thinks so.

- There is a solution where both C and SD can justify support for a bourgeois government. A clear right-wing policy for forests and the economy, and a compromise in migration policy where more people who behave are allowed to stay while more people who don't behave are deported, says Thor.

He believes that C can both get the policy they prefer and tell the voters that they have succeeded in keeping both V and SD out of the government. But the Center Party has so far not wanted to see any government cooperation with the Sweden Democrats, a statement that was repeated by Center leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist on Tuesday.

- We cannot release a government where you cooperate with SD, she tells TT.

It would also require SD to give up its demand for ministerial posts. There have been media reports that SD is considering dropping the requirement, but when SD leader Jimmie Åkesson answered the journalists' questions, he was clear that the requirement still applies.

- If we are to support a government, as in the past four years, then we must also sit in that government. We have no plans to move, says Åkesson and continues:

- I find it very difficult to see anything equivalent that could trump the fact that SD is needed in a government.