The S leader wants to form a government without the Left Party
The party leader of the Social Democrats wants to see a collaboration with the Left Party as a support party to avoid a government with the Moderates.
Quick Look
- Magdalena Andersson (S) wants to form a government with C and MP, with V as support party.
- If the Left Party refuses to discuss the proposal, she sees an S-M government as the only alternative.
- The center party is waiting until they have seen S and M's total package next Friday.
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Why It Matters
Sweden has been without a new government for 56 days after the election. Magdalena Andersson rules out cooperation with a government supported by the Sweden Democrats.
Social Democrats party leader Magdalena Andersson says she wants to use the coming week to work for a government with S, C and MP - in close cooperation with V.
- I judge that it is a government like this that is most likely to take office, she says and adds that this solution would lie within the Center Party's two red lines on which they went to the election.
She wants V, which she wants to see as a support party in her government, to "understand what is at stake".
- I hope that the Left Party takes the time to reflect on this, says Andersson.
If the Left Party "does not even want to discuss" Andersson's proposal, the outcome could instead lead to a government with both S and M.
- If it is the case that the Left Party says no to even discussing this, then I can state that it is only a government that contains both social democrats and moderates that has the conditions to be able to function in practice.
The announcement comes after the conversations she has had since election night, the party leader states. During Sunday, she informed C, MP and V about her decision.
Center leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist writes in a statement that the party wants to wait until they have seen the total package that S and M will present to C next Friday about how they want to govern Sweden.
"We want to see the whole and therefore wait to comment on individual parts until we have seen both total packages."
Earlier on Sunday, the S leader wrote on Instagram that she completely rules out cooperating or negotiating with a government consisting of M, L, KD and C with the support of the Sweden Democrats.
"We would be in full opposition to a Tidö 2 government," she wrote in the post.
According to the S leader, a government consisting of M, L, KD and C would become dependent on SD and in practice become "a Tidö government". At the same time, she warns that it would violate the Center Party's most important election promise.
Last Friday, M leader Ulf Kristersson said that he was investigating the possibility of forming a "bourgeois center government" with four parties.
On Sunday, 56 days have passed without Sweden getting a new government.
What to Watch
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
S and M present a total package for the Center Party next Friday.
Very likely · Within weeks
Open Questions
- How will the Left Party react to the proposal?
- What does S and M's total package for the Center Party contain?
