Internal pressure ahead of red-green summit: "Sharpest border"

The meeting will be held on Friday afternoon at a conference center on Lidingö, outside Stockholm.

The highest representatives of the red-greens, including the party leaders, must participate. Nine external guests must also be present to give their situational views.

At the meeting, there will be no government negotiations and there is no plan to solve the critical issue: that V demands ministerial positions while C refuses to release a government with V ministers.

But within the Center Party, the initiative is praised, and one hopes that the party will not be blamed for the fact that Sweden does not appear to have a new government within easy reach.

- There is an image that C has been the problem, says a C source.

Not taken a stand

Even though C and V will now attend the same meeting, there is a great expectation, within C, to stick to the red line vis-à-vis V.

At the same time, people at several levels in the party state that there is an understanding that the Left Party will very likely be needed in a collaboration.

So far, Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist has not outwardly wanted to take a position on that issue.

- It must be a next step. Magdalena Andersson has to look at that, because she is the one who probes. Our contribution has been to open for conversation because we have been part of the lockdowns that have existed, she has told SVT.

"The sharpest border against SD"

That C would turn to the right is described, by several people, as unthinkable.

The red line against SD has broad internal support and is harder than the one against V.

Because while C does not rule out cooperating with V outside the government, the door is described as completely closed to giving SD political influence at all.

The chances for M leader Ulf Kristersson to form a new government are therefore doomed within C, several people tell SVT. This is because such a government would most likely require the support of SD.

- The sharpest boundary is the one against SD, says a C source.

Despite C inviting to the meeting, several people in the party point out that it is S leader Magdalena Andersson who has the probe mission, and that she is the one who needs to solve the government issue.

On Monday, Andersson must submit a report to the speaker on how the process is going - and a prime ministerial vote can be held next Wednesday at the earliest.

At the moment, she doesn't look like she can become prime minister.

- No one has erased any red line, she said on Tuesday.