Swedish Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson has abandoned efforts to form a four-party government. Deep divisions within the election-winning bloc have left Sweden in political deadlock.
Assuming either the Left Party can be persuaded to support it without being in the government (and presumably mollified with some policy concessions that the Center Party can abide), or the Center Party can be persuaded that the Left, who got more seats than them, can reasonably expect a ministry or two (perhaps social services or something, probably not finance or foreign policy).
Of course, if the ball is in the conservatives’ court now, they could always run away with it by somehow persuading the Nazis to support the government like last time without being in it and the Center to support a government dependent on Nazis (whom they detest even more than the filthy commies of the Left), which would be a big stretch in both directions, or else persuade the Center to support a government with Nazis having ministries (an even bigger stretch). Hopefully Sweden is still sufficiently uncorrupt that there is no possibility of the deal being sweetened with huge amounts of money in off-shore accounts, as that’s the only way I could see that happening.
If neither happens, perhaps the two smaller right-wing parties can be persuaded to support a Social Democrat/Center government and the Greens can be persuaded to not knock the whole thing over (as they would be inclined to do). The Left, the conservatives and the Nazis would then form a ragged, wild-eyed opposition to a patched-together, ideologically incoherent government.
They haven’t failed yet. But it’s a mess so we’ll see what happens.
Edit: nvm, was looking at svt for news on this and just noticed they reported about it as well
They’ll form a government eventually IMO
Assuming either the Left Party can be persuaded to support it without being in the government (and presumably mollified with some policy concessions that the Center Party can abide), or the Center Party can be persuaded that the Left, who got more seats than them, can reasonably expect a ministry or two (perhaps social services or something, probably not finance or foreign policy).
Of course, if the ball is in the conservatives’ court now, they could always run away with it by somehow persuading the Nazis to support the government like last time without being in it and the Center to support a government dependent on Nazis (whom they detest even more than the filthy commies of the Left), which would be a big stretch in both directions, or else persuade the Center to support a government with Nazis having ministries (an even bigger stretch). Hopefully Sweden is still sufficiently uncorrupt that there is no possibility of the deal being sweetened with huge amounts of money in off-shore accounts, as that’s the only way I could see that happening.
If neither happens, perhaps the two smaller right-wing parties can be persuaded to support a Social Democrat/Center government and the Greens can be persuaded to not knock the whole thing over (as they would be inclined to do). The Left, the conservatives and the Nazis would then form a ragged, wild-eyed opposition to a patched-together, ideologically incoherent government.
Failing that, it’s election time again.