The red-green party leaders met at lunchtime on Friday at the Högberga Gård conference hotel on Lidingö.
They heard from representatives of various sectors about the situation in Sweden and around the world.
It was the first time the party leaders had been seen in the same room since the election. They also took their first joint picture, smiling with coffee cups in their hands.
"We haven't talked about government negotiations at all today. We've just looked at the current situation and the challenges facing Sweden," says Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist.
The tone has been pleasant and constructive.
V: One step forward
The Left Party's Nooshi Dadgostar also seems satisfied after the meeting, even though the issue of forming a government did not come up. The deadlock stems from V demanding ministerial posts, while C cannot support a government that includes V.
The starting point for today is that we are in a kind of government negotiations, says Dadgostar.
I think it was really good that we were sitting in the same room here talking to each other. It was Elisabeth and me, along with several of our staff. So I see it as a step forward.
On Monday, Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson will report to the Speaker whether she can form a government, has failed to do so or needs more time.
I will reflect on it over the weekend and then I will give my message to the Speaker, says Andersson.
She does not want to say whether C and V have moved closer to each other after the meeting, but says she sees S, V, C and MP as four parties with a common direction.
It's the four parties that would like to see me as prime minister, so it's something that brings us together.
The red lines are fixed.
Andersson also does not want to say whether S would consider bringing V into a government.
Nooshi Dadgostar, like Thand Ringqvist and the Green Party's two spokespersons, Daniel Helldén and Amanda Lind, thinks it is now up to Magdalena Andersson to take the next step, since she has been tasked with exploring the possibility of forming a government.
She has not yet invited the other parties to meet, so it is now up to her to do so, says Dadgostar.
She does not say whether the Left Party would vote against the Social Democratic leader in a vote for prime minister. Such a vote could be held as early as next Wednesday.
It depends entirely on what Magdalena Andersson does now, of course.
National Institute of Economic Research (Sweden's economic research institute), Director General Albin Kainelainen
SKR (Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions), Chief Economist Emelie Värja
Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, CEO Jan-Olof Jacke
TCO (Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees), union chairwoman Therese Svanström
LO (Swedish Trade Union Confederation), union chairman Johan Lindholm
Saco (Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations), union chairwoman Sofia Rydgren Stale
The Police, Deputy National Police Commissioner Stefan Hector
Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Director Jakob Hallgren
Fossil-free Sweden (national climate initiative), national coordinator Svante Axelsson
Source: Centre Party
