Letter to the editor. The Left Party must ensure that there is a red-green government

Of course, the Left Party should sit in a government that has been voted for!

It is almost unimaginable that the Social Democrats did not make sure to have the team ready before the election. I am convinced that it was an important explanation why the Tidö parties, which made it clear that they were a team, got such a good election result, despite massive dissatisfaction with their politics.

Ulla Andersson, former fiscal policy spokesperson in V, has shown the way in a post on the platform X (7/10). The four winning parties must start with the budget and negotiate important agreements. The decision to stop teenage deportations shows that they can come to an agreement. But now time to move on.

The left's best election in 1998, when it got 12 percent and became the third largest party, led to good cooperation with S and strong influence in the Riksdag. V received several chairmanships in the Riksdag and I myself became V's first deputy speaker.

It took until 2018 when V returned with Lotta Johnsson Fornarve as deputy speaker. Despite the fact that V became the fourth largest party in 2022 and this year as well, and should have been allowed to continue with the post of deputy speaker, the assignment went to the Center.

Despite these successes, V has so far held no ministerial posts. What is possible in other Nordic countries seems impossible in Sweden. The time is now!

For us voters, the current fortunes of the government negotiations are almost incomprehensible, but above all undignified. We don't want to see more party advocates who explain what they don't want on TV night after night.

The centre's opposition to the Left Party has no counterpart at the regional and municipal level. For example, S, C and V on Gotland have agreed to govern the region jointly this term.

But if - and I say about, with the hope that I'm wrong - the Center Party's stance is firm and the Social Democrats are paralyzed, there is no other way out than for V to take the lead. In that case, V must accept to become part of the red-green government foundation in the same way that SD has been for the right-wing government.

During the last term of office, the SD has been the party in the Tidö collaboration that got most of its policies through. In the same way, V can, for example, see to it that a humane asylum policy is passed, reverse climate policy and stop profits in schools.

This is not the best solution, but everything must be done to avoid that Ulf Kristersson (M) is tasked with forming a government, or that in the worst case there will be a by-election. The left-wing parties must become the adults in the room who take responsibility for Sweden and for the election results to be reflected in red-green politics.