Sweden election 2022

[JimJamUK]

There were talks about an alliance between the social democrats and the far right in Denmark. Could that happen in Sweden in the future?

The Danish ‘far right’ (I’m assuming you’re referring to the Danish People’s Party) have their roots in the anti-tax movement and later adopted a broadly statist programme. Their immigration policies are unacceptable to many progressives, but they’re not extremists. Conversely, the Swedish Democrats have a clear history of far right ties/advocacy and are increasingly moving in a generic centre-right direction. They’re both a lot more poisonous (especially in a politically correct country like Sweden) but also don’t have as much in common with the left.

[JimJamUK]

You cannot do this meaningfully as those blocks are new. Until recently the arrangement was between a Socialist block (the SAP, V and the latterly the Greens) and what was always called the Bourgeois Block (M, C, KD, L). The SDs were at first a fringe party, and then a party with a substantial following with the status of parliamentary lepers.

You can’t even do a straight comparison to the 2018 election either. C and L were right wing parties that pointed to an M prime minister (but not if the SD were part of the majority). At 41% for SAP, V and MP, support for an SAP led government was clearly a minority opinion. With C de facto switching sides this year, 49% of people voted for parties that wanted an SAP led government. Really, this was in many respects a very good performance for the centre-left government, the problem being that they ‘shouldn’t’ have been in government in the first place.