Busch says KD could cooperate
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Busch says KD could cooperate with the Centre Party if power shifts after election

Ebba Busch (KD) and Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist (C) may consider collaborating on several issues if there is a change of government after the election. If we end up in opposition, I will not sit in a corner and sulk and push Magdalena Andersson into the arms of MP and V, Busch tells Sveriges Radio Ekot.

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The statement came during a debate called "Mittenmötet" in Stockholm between Busch and Thand Ringqvist on Wednesday. Busch says she has "Sweden's best interests" in mind.

It would be good if more party leaders reasoned like her and wanted to be involved in developing our country, says S leader Magdalena Andersson, who herself debated against Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson in Gävle during the evening, to TT.

Do you interpret this as meaning that KD can sit in government with S?

First we need to have an election result, then I will contact many party leaders, says Andersson.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) welcomes the outstretched hand to the Centre Party - but says that Ebba Busch will not sit in a Social Democratic government.

"I have spoken to Ebba a lot about this. She is not going to do an Annie Lööf and create a Social Democratic government. If she wanted to, she would have said so before the election," he says.

Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist believes that it would be "great" for Sweden to have a government that includes both the Christian Democrats and the Centre Party.

We stand in the middle and have several options, we have opened up to everything from the Green Party to the Moderates, she says.

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