On Friday, Ulf Kristersson, the prime minister and Moderate Party leader, and Magdalena Andersson, the Social Democratic Party leader, handed over their “total packages” to the Centre Party.
If the negotiations result in what Mikael Damberg calls a Tidö 2 government, the Social Democrats will go into strong opposition, as Magdalena Andersson also announced last week.
And then we will coordinate our actions. We will put forward a joint budget reservation with the Liberals and the Centre Party, says Damberg.
The distribution of seats in the Riksdag is what it is, and it is important not to indulge in wishful thinking. Such a weak Tidö 2 government would depend not only on the Social Democrats to take office, but also on them to get its proposals and budget passed.
If an agreement between the Social Democrats, the Moderates and the Centre Party were to fail, Magdalena Andersson sees cooperation between the Social Democrats and the Moderates as the only viable option left.
"If such a government alternative does not come to fruition, only a government that includes both the Social Democrats and the Moderates has the potential to function in practice, take responsibility for Sweden and not be dependent on the Sweden Democrats," Andersson writes in a debate article in Expressen on Saturday.
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