Leader: Åkesson's announcement about ministerial positions changes nothing for the Center Party

There is a "non-socialist majority" in the Riksdag, Ulf Kristersson has insisted since election night. But on Friday, that term no longer existed in his vocabulary, when he called a press conference after Jimmie Åkesson's statement that he could imagine tolerating an M-led government without being part of it and Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist's request for a "total package" from the prime ministerial candidates.

Instead, Kristersson spoke about how he had always wanted to form a "bourgeois center government".

So does he have a new plan to form a majority, which does not require C and SD to be pushed together in the same government document?

Of course not.

Together with KD, L and C, Kristersson has just over 136 mandates, the red-greens have 151. He has no plans to rule on the opposition's budget. And to take office as prime minister on Jimmie Åkesson's mandate and then rule on Magdalena Andersson's? No, that is obviously not an option.

C's opposition to cooperating with SD is not about artificial red lines - but about the fact that the political gap is too deep.

SD is the intended partner. And is it then possible to attract the Center Party into such cooperation, now that Åkesson says that he does not need to become a minister?

No, of course this is a waste of time.

C's opposition to cooperating with SD is not about artificial red lines - but about the fact that the political gap is too deep.

C wants to increase labor immigration and the number of quota refugees. The SD has spent the last few weeks in an infected internal debate about whether people should have their citizenships and permanent residency revoked because they have the wrong biology or the wrong culture.

Carbon dioxide emissions must go down, the Center promised in the election campaign. For Jimmie Åkesson, it only applies to the direction of the petrol price.

As far as "non-socialism" is concerned, it can be stated that SD loves public spending almost as much as the left - and that it has left its mark on an economic policy in the last four years that has been characterized by record deficits instead of bourgeois restraint. C is, on the contrary, a market liberal party.

The centrists understand of course that he will not be able to deliver; the goal is to lock them into a bourgeois four-party government, hooked on the Sweden Democrats.

Here, it is not arbitrarily drawn red lines that make cooperation impossible, but policy based on values.

So it is not enough that Kristersson's "total package" lacks SD ministers. It must also include a plan for how he will get Åkesson to give up his policy and ideology.

The centrists understand of course that he will not be able to deliver; the goal is to lock them into a bourgeois four-party government, hooked on the Sweden Democrats - that is, everything but the center.

And they know what happened to M, KD and L when they became dependent on SD for the last four years. Not least the Liberals: the party has been emptied of its own ideas and will, and formally turned into an appendix, not only to the Moderates but also – in fact – to the Sweden Democrats.

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