The public opinion situation looks tough for the Tidö parties, but Ebba Busch points out that this is when the election campaign begins in earnest.
"We want four more years for the blue and yellow, that's what's best for Sweden. I can imagine welcoming the Centre Party into a blue and yellow coalition if necessary," says Busch at a press conference outside Rosenbad.
Centre leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist has said in recent days that she hopes to sit in a government with the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats and perhaps the Green Party. The party has now repositioned its election campaign to attract centrist voters who do not want to give either the SD or the V influence in a future government.
“Deeply unsympathetic”
KD party leader Ebba Busch instead wonders what the Centre Party is doing "among the red-greens" and thinks that the opposition has started talking as if the election has already been decided.
"I find that deeply unsympathetic. The voters haven't made up their minds yet," she says.
Ebba Busch repeats the message that she is ready to take responsibility if Sweden were to find itself in an "exceptional situation, a crisis situation", without developing it further.
Instead, she points out that there are major substantive policy differences between KD and C on the one hand and MP on the other, for example on new nuclear power, paternity leave and migration.
Magdalena Andersson (S) does not want to comment on whether she believes in C's centre alternative, or whether she would rather sit in a government with C than with V.
I want to form a government where I can get the maximum amount of social democratic policies through, and there will be a discussion after the election, says the party leader.
Would you consider turning to KD?
The only party I would rule out cooperation with is the Sweden Democrats.
Kristersson dismisses
Ulf Kristersson (M) dismisses a new centre bloc. In practice, there are only two realistic government alternatives, according to the prime minister.
There is the blue-yellow team and there is the red-green team. And then the Centre Party gets to decide whether they want to be part of the red-green team or not. That's what this is all about, he says.
At the same time, Kristersson, together with Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson, has written a letter to the C leader, in which they appeal to cooperate across bloc borders on tax issues, Aftonbladet writes.
The goal of the collaboration would be to stop the bank tax that the Social Democrats want to introduce, and they claim that the tax would lead to higher mortgage rates.
