Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist wants to see new government cooperation in the middle

At a press conference at Stortorget, party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist spoke about how she wants a future government collaboration to look like. She sees the Center Party, the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Christian Democrats as a possible government.

- After the election, it's about gathering in the middle, she says.

Strangnäs is no accident

That the Center leader spoke at Stortorget at the foot of Domkyrkoberget was no coincidence. Strängnäs has become associated with the Tidö parties' government cooperation because it was here that they "agreed on a plan", as Ulf Kristersson put it, for the coming term.

But the Center Party is betting on the Tidö parties losing the election and the collaboration breaking up.

Want KD to join

They have previously said that they do not want to govern with the Left Party and Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist instead sees the Christian Democrats joining the political center after the election, together with the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Center Party.

How likely is KD to join you?

- I think a lot will happen when the Tidö alternative has crashed in a few weeks. And then there are those who want to take continued responsibility for Sweden, she says.

Has Strängnäs become an extra important place in Swedish politics?

- It has become a symbolically important place. They have played on the fact that it is a historical place and we want to take away from them that it is only associated with a right-wing government. We want to show that there is a middle alternative.

Later on Wednesday, Jimmie Åkesson visits Strängnäs.