Government formation has entered a feverish state. The Left Party has dropped out of this week's planned four-party talks between C, S, V and MP. After C leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist announced that she could also consider Ulf Kristersson as prime minister, deputy party leader Ida Gabrielsson sees no reason to participate.
Magdalena Andersson now says she wants to form a government with the Center Party and the Green Party, and negotiate policy with V so that such a government will receive support in the Riksdag.
The S leader's proposal is described by C's party secretary Hannes Hervieu as "interesting".
- Now it is up to the Left Party if they want to see Magdalena Andersson as prime minister, he says to DN.
Hervieu also says that the Center Party has not changed its position towards the SD.
In SVT's Aktuellt, Ida Gabrielsson expressed on Monday evening that V has been prepared to compromise on many important issues and that the ministerial demand has also been discussed in the four-party talks. The interview triggered a lot of speculation that, after the events of the last few days, V might consider standing outside an S-led government. But V's ministerial demands are firm, according to DN's central V sources.
"No, we have not changed our position, my point here is that I don't think it has any significance now that C is prepared to go to SD", wrote Ida Gabrielsson on platform X after the interview in Aktuellt.
From the point of view of the Left Party, the four-party talks were heading in the opposite direction, something Gabrielsson has expressed in a series of interviews.
Before V pulled out of the S-led talks, according to DN's source with insight into the process, a solution was discussed where the Center Party stood outside a red-green government and instead concluded an agreement with S, V and MP. The discussions must have been on a principled level and not have contained concrete policy proposals.
On Tuesday, the Left Party announced to the Social Democrats that it wants to resume the four-party talks, after the Center Party has requested it, DN learns.
Even within the Center, information about V in the government must have circulated ahead of last week's decision to open for Ulf Kristersson as government leader. A C source describes that senior officials in the party organization held talks with the districts during the week.
- Senior managers in the party organization then said that S is pushing very hard because they want V to be in government, says the C source.
C officials are said to have described the situation in the four-party talks as deadlocked, and that the party's room for maneuver was very limited, which is why it would benefit from opening up to two prime ministerial candidates, according to the source.
On Tuesday, Magdalena Andersson denied the information that S would have demanded that V must sit in the government.
The Center Party is now waiting for both M leader Ulf Kristersson and S leader Magdalena Andersson to present proposals on how they can form a government that is not dependent on SD or V.
- Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist wants to go to the right, but it is unclear if she will get the party with her, says a C source.
Several DN spoke with describe that before S-leader Magdalena Andersson's announcement there was a movement in the direction of a Kristersson government. Large cities such as Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm are said to be against such a solution, but also the Jämtland district.
The fact that Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist has now gotten the Social Democrats to state which parties they want to see in government, and thereby exclude the Left Party, is seen as a success.
- We have been asking for that for a long time. Having made the big red party talk out of the blue about V is a win, says another C source.
Magnus Demervall was previously one of Annie Lööf's closest employees and a key player in several negotiations with S. Today he is CEO of the organization Företagarna. Demerwall believes that Magdalena Andersson's announcement about not letting V into a government has changed the game plan.
- But as long as V stubbornly sticks to government demands, it is a completely different situation than in 2018. Then V was not included, and the policy ended up in lower taxes, improved business climate and strengthened property rights in the forest, for example. If C doesn't get it through now, I wouldn't be surprised if they choose another path, he says.
