Kristoffer Wolke, district chairman of the Left Party in Jönköping County, believes that the requirement is to be part of a government.
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The Left Party is demanding to be part of a government, which has created tensions in the government issue.
Jönköping is one of several regions where the members of the Left Party will not back down from the government's demand, according to Sveriges Radio's echo editorial.
SVT Nyheter Jönköping has been in contact with Kristoffer Wolke, district chairman of the Left Party in Jönköping County, follows the same line. He believes that the real issue is not about demands for ministerial positions but a demand to be part of the government.
- The requirement is really that we should be part of a government. After all, all the parties that sat in the government have received ministerial positions, says Kristoffer Wolke.
"Not us who change anything"
A consequence of the demand could be that Sweden gets a bourgeois government. However, Kristoffer Wolke believes that it is not them who can change anything in the current situation.
- It is of course not preferable to a bourgeois government, but in this situation it is not us who are changing anything. It is the Center Party that changes its conditions from what they said before the election, he says.
Kristoffer Wolke considers it odd that the Center Party does not want to cooperate with the Left Party, because the cooperation works at the regional and municipal level.

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The Center Party demands a "total package" from both Ulf Kristersson and Magdalena Andersson regarding their government alternatives. The announcement comes after Jimmie Åkesson opened for a bourgeois four-party government with SD support.
Ida Gabrielsson's (V) statements in Aktuellt raised speculation that the Left Party has softened its demand for government participation. Despite internal anger against C and S, the party's districts are adamant that government involvement is a requirement for support.
S leader Magdalena Andersson wants to govern with the Center Party and the Green Party, with the Left Party as the support party. She appealed to V to think about her government demand and said that it is not about her but about the Swedish people. The Center Party has requested that both Andersson and Ulf Kristersson present their total package by Friday at the latest.
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