Sweden election 2022

[njwes]

MP doing worse than average among the young is rather shocking, especially in Greta's country. I guess they are seen as an appendix to S at this point?

I mean, Greta is an *extremely* offputting autistic and sanctimonious holier-than-thou screecher. I've never met or spoken to anybody younger who finds her at all appealing who wouldn't already have voted for a far-left or left-green party--often incredibly misanthropic self-declared "socialist" types.*

I think her appeal lies more among Boomers who like being yelled at and want to "atone". I'm sure many Swedes find it annoying that Greta is seen as somehow emblematic of their country


*Less common IRL but very common on the Elections forums 

[njwes]

North of Norway, Finland and Canada all generally go left

North of Finland does not go left. It's Centre Party territory, and the Finnish Centre is very much a bourgeois party notwithstanding its current coalition with the left.

But is the north of Finland particularly "bourgeois" socio-culturally?

[njwes]

Seems like it might make a lot of sense for the Blue Bloc to kick out the Liberals and bring in the Cs, no? Pad the majority and get rid of a group of MPs who seem particularly insufferable

[njwes]

Blue Block at the last moment has now a 2-seat lead even though the margin is 0.7% in their favor. This is contrasted with the 0.9% gap and 1 seat lead from before the mail votes, so geography of their vote got better.

Do you happen to know which parties gained and lost a seat?

[njwes]

But SD won't actually be in government, will it?

It shouldn't, as L won't allow it.

But would not SD ask for their pound of flesh in terms of policy for them to back a M government from the outside ?

Yes, which L also promises to block. Hence something needs to give. Either L caves completely or SD accepts being merely a crutch for Alliansen politics. Or alternatively this entire charade collapses and either S and M work out a deal or we get new elections

Would an S + M government be workable? Do they have much common ground to build on? (Though thinking about it, just dealing with one other party may seem more appealing for both than herding a ton of pissy smaller parties)