Hervieu meets a gathered press corps outside the Centre Party's parliamentary offices in the Old Town in Stockholm.
"We have good contacts with several other parties. I will not comment on what dialogues and meetings we have," he says of possible meetings that are now taking place between the red-green parties S, C, MP and V.
C sticks to its red line that V should not sit in government.
"We believe that the Left Party is not suitable for a Swedish government," says Hervieu.
He previously said that a government needs to take responsibility for economic policy, security policy and foreign policy.
Fundamentally, these negotiations are about what is best for Sweden, not what is best for the Centre Party.
He says that suspicions of election fraud involving a registered member of parliament for the Left Party in Dalarna are affecting many people's view of V.
Our whole point is to get a government in place that is as capable of action as possible. The Swedish people have not given a mandate for a clear left turn, but rather that politics must lean towards the centre.
