On Tuesday, the red-greens showed they can agree on some migration policy - a topic that has often divided the four parties. Now they are joining hands to stop teenage deportations. Thus, Magdalena Andersson's team has gone ashore with its first matter-of-fact political settlement after the election.
And late last week, the Center gave up its opposition to talking politics with Nooshi Dadgostar. On Friday, the party leaders for S, V, C and MP will meet in seminar form and discuss Sweden's political challenges.
What we are witnessing is the Center Party's collective learning, a process that can reasonably only end with the party accepting influence for the Left Party - probably also in the government.
Normally, parties have the self-preservation drive to choose the option that hurts the least. Going to the right would be much more painful for the Center, which has built its existence on being the home of liberal SD opponents.
At the same time, Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist assures that the red line towards V is unbroken and that C continues to talk with all parties, with the aim of finding a middle solution. Center sources point out the contact with Ebba Busch's Christian Democrats as particularly interesting.
But no talks in the world can create a new mandate position in the Riksdag. There are only four parties that want to help Thand Ringqvist make Magdalena Andersson prime minister - the entire right-wing side is cold to that project.
Going right would be much more painful for the Center
We've seen it before. In the autumn of 2018, the then center leader Annie Lööf needed several months to walk the path together with the center movement from the old alliance to a settlement with the Social Democrats. Lööf's first red line was that the alliance parties should govern with the support of S. When that did not work, Lööf retreated to the fact that the Social Democrats must accept the Center's list of demands in full. Another prime ministerial vote passed before Lööf was finally able to compromise with Stefan Löfven. Step by step, the center people were convinced to like the new situation. And got quite a lot of centrist politics along the way.
When SVT's Agenda the other day asked the center leader why the Left Party is so much worse than the Green Party, she emphasized the view of small businesses and local society. The Left Party's vice-chairman Ida Gabrielsson quickly replied that she "could directly sign those things". V is prepared to change policy if C grants the party a place in the government, was Gabrielsson's message.
The most interesting thing at the moment is therefore not that the Center sticks to the line against the Left Party - but how they justify it. Should they - like right-wing people - claim that V is a security risk or a home for "terror romantics", the arguments will be difficult to take back. If, on the other hand, the center management continues to raise material issues such as taxes and entrepreneurship, there is something to negotiate about.
It is still too early to give up without losing face. To get there, at least one failed prime ministerial vote is probably required. There are many indications that Andersson will first see himself voted down - and then start the negotiations again.
