The Left Party's demands on the Center: Choose a side

The day after the meeting with the other red-green parties, V-leader Nooshi Dadgostar and vice-chairman Ida Gabrielsson come with a message to the Center Party: Choose a side.

Either there will be a red-green government, or there will be a government under M leader Ulf Kristersson.

- Now it is up to the Center Party to make this historic decision, says Nooshi Dadgostar during a lightning press conference.

If C chooses Magdalena Andersson's government alternative, V is willing to revive the four-party talks between the red-green parties. However, there is no question of any new concessions. The party still wants ministerial posts and to be part of that government.

- We are ready to sit down with C in the situation that they choose the total package Magdalena Andersson and continue the constructive talks we have had until now, says Nooshi Dadgostar.

Magdalena Andersson has said that she wants to see a S-C-MP government. It is therefore about a minority government that would need support from the Left Party - an arrangement that the Left's congress decision puts an end to.

If C and party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist instead choose alternative Ulf Kristersson, there is no reason for further negotiations. That would mean that C chooses a government supported by SD, says the V leader.

- Now we don't know what C will choose, but the way it was formulated on Friday, we see it as a big shift in how C talks and what the party promised in the election campaign. That in practice you are asking for something that is completely SD-dependent, that is to erase the thickest red line.

Thursday marks day 60 without a government. For the time being, it is M leader Ulf Kristersson who has the probe assignment. He will report how things have gone on Tuesday next week.

In a comment after the Left Party's press conference, the S leader says that all parties in a government document must have influence.

"Sweden needs a stable and capable government that can implement the new direction the Swedish people have voted for. Of course, all parties that are part of such a government foundation must be guaranteed influence. I welcome all initiatives to take this process forward in a constructive way."