Sweden election 2022

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Are the Swedish democrats still too toxic to be included in any possible goverment ?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Are the Swedish democrats still too toxic to be included in any possible goverment ?

Not really, I believe. The Moderates, Liberals and Christian Democrats have a "collaboration agreement" with SD and they have presented some conjoint policies. Not sure if they will be part of a coalition government, but SD will support a proposed Moderate PM and, unlike 2018, M-L-KD will accept that support.

Is there an english text of the collaboration agreement ? what kind of concession has SD won ?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Huh has the pandemic or anything changed general Swedish attitudes towards labour migration ?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Why weren't the swedish liberal party able to occupy that political space ?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

As far as I can tell from the outside, the most powerful force in Swedish politics at the moment is the desire to become a bit more like Denmark.

The "ethnic quotas in neighbourhoods" comment especially could only have two possible origins and I somehow doubt Swedish politicians have a Singapore fetish...

Well i've met a few swedes who do, but they live in singapore so...

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

What did the Liberals do with regards to working with the Swedish democrats ?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

What kind of concessions is SD going to demand from a right goverment ?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

What is the "raison d'etre" of the Liberals in Sweden? What do they stand for that isn't already amply covered either by the Centre Party or the Moderates?

At one time they billed themselves as a socially liberal middle of the road party that would appeal to teachers and intellectuals - but now they have decided to support a government dependent on and at the beck and call of the neo-Nazis in SD - so they are now basically identical to the Moderates. Why do they exist at all?

The impression I get is still kinda serving that very small base of those too progressive for any other Right party, to fiscally conservative for C or M. But the real reason for existing still is to just get over the threshold. The right as a whole can't see them waste 2% of the vote, as polls during the off-season these days say, so voters act tactically.

I can understand why some people might still vote for the Liberals to keep them above the 4% hurdle...but my question is why do they exist at all? Why don't they just fold as a party? If the reason for them to exist is to give socially liberal but fiscally conservative people a party to vote for - doesn't the Centre party already offer that and C is not selling its soul by agreeing to the formation of a government that includes neo-Nazis.

Parties have a lot of legacy and people tied to the brand. They die slowly.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Couldn't you have a Social Democrat  minority Goverment with every issue being decided with it's own unique coallation ? It seems possibly more stable than a right-bloc goverment.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

But of course, as Realpolitik said, they despise each other to a pretty strong degree. M's entire thing is that they can take out a social democratic government, so supporting such a government or even PM would be a betrayal of their main issue. S would almost certainly demand the post of prime minister in any such arrangement as a condition for support, and this is unacceptable to M.

This isn't like Germany where the SPD and CDU can agree on things even when out of power (e.g. the asylum compromise between the CDU-FDP government and the SPD in 1992 or the defense spending package this past spring between the Scholz government and the CDU) or even like Finland where the Big 3 parties (SDP, NCP, Centre) take turns forming governments of two parties and then one goes into opposition. The SAP has been so dominant in Sweden historically that it changes the dynamic completely.

Are there any details about that avaliable ?

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

What is current swedish immigration policy at present ?