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-yellow government 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 the 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.
KD 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 is already 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 elaborating further. She is also unwilling to discuss what collaborations she might consider if the Tidö parties were to lose the election.
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 the view on new nuclear power, paternity leave and migration.
