Swedish newspapers believe that – regardless of who ends up being Sweden’s prime minister – the immigration-critical Sweden Democrats are the election’s big winners.
Expressen, a liberal newspaper, writes that party leader Jimmie Åkesson can be satisfied with Sunday’s election but emphasizes that the result is due to the fact that the country’s largest party, the Social Democrats, went to the election without a policy of their own.
Instead, the Social Democrats have tried to turn the election into a referendum on the Sweden Democrats, the newspaper writes.
“It does not seem to have led to victory. On the contrary, SD grew further and took over the role of Sweden’s second-largest party. It is very unfortunate,” according to Expressen.
Solid result
Blekinge Läns Tidning’s editors believe that Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson can be commended for a strong result and that the Moderates led by Ulf Kristersson are no longer Sweden’s second largest party.
“The difference between success and failure will be very thin for Ulf Kristersson. Will he be remembered as the loser who let SD catch up with the Moderates in the number of votes? Or the winner who could lead a new coalition to power? A couple of thousand votes make the difference,” the newspaper noted.
Double loss for Kristersson
Lena Mellin in Aftonbladet writes that Kristersson has suffered a double loss. For the second time as a leader during the elections, he suffered a loss for the party.
But the second loss probably hurts more, as the Sweden Democrats have now overtaken his party as Sweden’s second largest party.
However, Mellin notes that the pain of losing second place can still be alleviated if the party ends up leading a new government.
Demanding government negotiations
TT believes that the government negotiations could be quite demanding. For now, it seems that Kristersson is the best candidate to become Sweden’s next prime minister.
But the fact that the Sweden Democrats have become bigger than the Moderates can affect such plans.
SD leader Jimmie Åkesson says that he expects his party to have a “central role” if there is a change of power and that the best thing for Sweden would be a majority government.
But neither the Moderates, the Christian Democrats, nor the Liberals want the Sweden Democrats in a government. Kristersson says he is willing to cooperate with them in the Riksdag.
Furthermore, the Liberals will not support a government with SD, much less sit in such a government.
The final result of the election will not be known until Wednesday when overseas votes and postal votes are counted. Preliminary results show that the blue block leads with 49.7% against the red-green block with 48.8%. That would give a distribution of mandates of 175 to 174 in favor of the blue block.
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So the Swedes are FINALLY waking up?
Will the new government hold a referendum on Sweden joining NATO after all?
Even if (the media alleges) Swedes support that overwhelmingly, there should be a referendum for the to take personal responsibility for joining NATO, an alliance at war against Russia.
The mafiya clan gangs now controlling Swedish major city no-go sectors was a big issue.
But the Social Democrats making the Sweden Democrats a big issue and then the Sweden Democrats scoring so heavily anyway indicates a major political sea change … finally … i Sverige.
Meanwhile, also politically in Russia the often hyper pro-Putin pro-war pundit Soloviev is calling for the *execution* of Kharkiv front commanders because of the Russian Army’s apparent complete collapse there … like Pavlov the commander of the Western Special Military District executed for *its* collapse on 22 July 1941.
And will the collapse spread, like in 1917 … or the Soviet regime so suddenly collapsing in 1991?
This is the most unstable, unpredictable, and DANGEROUS moment of the Ukraine War … so far … since our coup in February 2014.