During the election campaign, the Center Party put forward proposals for reduced employer contributions and lower taxes.
The party opposed proposals to abolish the qualifying deduction, bank tax and other tax increases, which were put forward by the other opposition parties.
After the opposition's election victory, Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson faces difficult government negotiations, as the Centre Party refuses to form a government with the Left Party, and the Left Party in turn demands ministerial posts.
Keeping promises
Magnus Demervall, CEO of the trade organization Företagarna, is concerned about some of the proposals in the red-green parties' policies, which include abolishing the qualifying deduction and proposals for shorter working hours.
He now expects the Center Party to keep its promises.
I don't intend to get involved in exactly how to act in parliament. But I can still say that the Center Party went to the polls on a policy that would, in principle, be very good for Sweden's small businesses.
"I think you should stand up for the policies you were elected on," he says.
Magnus Demervall believes that a majority of the Swedish people have voted for parties that "want to lower taxes, that want to lower costs for employees and that do not want to abolish the qualifying deduction."
There is such a majority in the Riksdag, and it is clear that it is difficult to govern without respecting where the balance of power lies in the Riksdag.
"If you want to form a government, I think you will be more successful if you take that reality into account," he says.
Wallenberg worried
The Center Party is also under pressure from representatives of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. Even before the election, the chairman, business leader Jacob Wallenberg, said that he was "deeply concerned" about proposals from the left.
In Skånska Dagbladet, three members of the organization's committee for small and medium-sized enterprises claim that several entrepreneurs are questioning their support for the Center Party.
"Today, much of the Center Party's rhetoric is about which governments it wants to stop. For us in the business community, the more important question is which reforms it will stop if they are detrimental to entrepreneurship and growth," they write.
