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Former President tack50
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« on: March 11, 2019, 11:18:19 AM »

KD 4th biggest party at 10.6%. With L under the threshold, there is a M-KD-SD majority.



Is voting in Sweden private? I mean, I saw pictures of party lists being in the open, so everyone could see which party list you take.

I could have misunderstood, so that's why I'm asking.
You take a ballot for every party and then cast only one, in private. This system is still criticized, though.

Edit:

Just read a bit more about it.

So basically, most people will take just one ballot, and if you take the SD ballot (and everything else along with it) people are likely to know you are voting SD, since I doubt a Socialist or Moderate would feel pressured to take all of the ballots, and would only take the one they need.



Not sure how it works in Sweden, but here we use a similar system although depending on the polling place, the ballots will be either inside a cabin or out in the open (there doesn't seem to be an standard for this)

However, many parties (especially the large ones) send ballots to each voter. So if you plan on voting for the large parties you can go directly to the ballot box and put your vote there.

Not sure if Swedish parties send ballots home though.
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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2021, 05:40:29 AM »

May I say that the system where Sweden always has 4 year fixed elections is quite a bit dumb? Why should a new election be called in 2022 no matter what? Especially for national elections. The only advantage I can see is maybe stability but I'd rather take the snap elections, sometimes they are the best option.

Has any party ever proposed removing that rule?
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« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2021, 05:30:02 AM »

Kristersson already gave up, after just one day

Yesterday the Moderates attempted to bribe Centre or at least get a defector to abstain by announcing a major investment package for rural areas, but Centre immediately smacked it down. A spokesman said that Centre's ideal constellation would be to reassemble the Alliance with the support of the Green Party to gain a centre-right majority not reliant on SD or S+V

Even if we were to assume that the Green Party is willing to commit suicide by doing that; how exactly would that work given that S+SD+V have a "blocking majority" between the three of them? (and therefore any hypothetical government must include at least an abstention from one of them)
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« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2021, 01:22:00 PM »

Well that was fun.

Magdalena Andersson was elected Sweden's first female PM with the mandate of forming a coalition government between the Social Democrats and the Greens. Seven hours or so later she hands in her resignation to the Speaker, asking to be put before a new vote in the Riksdag, with a mandate to form a Social Democratic minority government.

Does she need to really do this? Can't she just sack the Green ministers and replace them with Social Democratic ministers?
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