Three red-green youth unions ready for negotiations - but CUF says no

- Throw all the party leaders into a room, lock the door and don't let them come out until they're done.

That's what My Kårlycke, chairman of Ung Vänster, says.

She is, like Moska Hassas (SSU) and Anton Bylin (Green Youth), frustrated that the four red-green parties have not progressed further in the process of forming a government. She would have liked to see the parties meet more.

- If I were party leader, I would have been even clearer. I had said straight out that either we now meet in the same room and talk, or the other parties must be very clear that it is a by-election they want.

She sees last Friday's seminar where C invited V, S and MP as a step on the way, but calls it a "game for the galleries" as long as the parties do not sit down and negotiate.

- It is beneath all criticism if you cannot sit in the same room, she says.

Still, she doubts whether the red lines between C and V could be blurred by meeting. She sees the fact that C wants to start with substantive politics as a sign that they want to use V's mandate for a government without them.

- C must realize that V is bigger than them, she says.

Why shouldn't V drop the demand for ministerial posts, get substantive policies through and ease the deadlock?

- We have been a support party for various S governments so many times without getting the outcome we want. We have simply tested it before, she says.

Green youth has lobbied for the mother party to start with a red-green budget cooperation before there is a ready government document, something they have now been given a nudge for, says spokesperson Anton Bylin.

- Everyone understands that something will have to change with the existing red lines. C and V are welcome to keep their opinions, but the red lines need to be paused so that we can start negotiating policy to get our own budget together in time, he says.

A majority government in this situation will require trust-building between centrists and left-wing parties, believes Anton Bylin, who admits that the parent party MP right now has relatively good conditions for government cooperation.

- V's strategy can be described as an attempt to pressure the Center Party until they surrender completely, and after that they must cooperate for four years. It is not necessarily a situation that lends itself very well to a trusting collaboration.

He personally thinks that the red-green youth unions should also meet, not least so that CUF and Young Left will get a better picture of each other, which CUF chairman Emelie Rossheim does not sign up to.

"I am against Nooshi Dadgostar and Ida Gabrielsson's theater, but despite that, it is more likely that the three of us will come to an agreement than that CUF and Ung Vänster will. Ung Vänster wants to do a Swexit, it is reckless and lacks grounding in reality," she writes to DN.

She is satisfied that the Center is sticking to not being part of any government with the "fringe party" the Left. Given the election results, her dream government is instead one where Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist brings S and MP and approaches KD and L:

"Simply a center government with S, C, KD, MP and L where she (Simona Mohamsson) is warmly welcome to run social liberal policies without influence from the extremes," she writes.

Moska Hassas is president of SSU, and just like Anton Bylin, she thinks that the four parties should start their cooperation through a joint budget. Just like My Kårlycke, she promotes the "lock in" strategy.

- We want to prevent a transition budget from Tidö. The red lines from C and V create a government culture war where who gets which ministerial position ends up in focus instead of the actual politics, she says.

What would you have done differently in Magdalena Andersson's place?

- I think S is right to meet the other parties under the premise of discussing policy. SSU's demand against S is that we want a government led by Magdalena Andersson that has a high rate of reform and a strong agenda. It is not something we stick under the chair with, that we have been critical of when the pace has previously been too low.