The moderate-blue bus speeds forward between stops in Östergötland, Småland, and Västergötland. A large-format image of a laughing Ulf Kristersson sits on the side with the text "Sweden is on the right track".
This is also Kristersson's message on this unusually early tour start, that the government is working methodically and stably to check off the points in the Tidö Agreement, where much is about tightened crime and immigration policy.
There is no chaos, no governments or ministers coming and going, no strange voting, he says with a jab at the latest S-led governments.
"Takes a beating"
But the Prime Minister's optimistic picture is not reflected in opinion polls. For a long time, they have shown a large lead for the opposition. But Kristersson is not worried.
Sitting governments take a beating when you govern in turbulent times and in expensive times. It's nothing new. I'm not saying that at all to downplay, because you can also fall on that, but election day is something other than when you generally give your opinion on what you think about the situation.
Last election's big issues - crime, immigration, and energy policy - will be big even in the upcoming election campaign, he believes. Even if S has smoothed out the conflict surfaces and now lies close to the Tidö parties in law and migration policy.
But he is also convinced that another issue will take up a lot of space.
We will get an election that is about families' economy, he says.
Liberal message
The days before Kristersson's election tour started, The Liberals' party board said no to sitting in a government together with SD after the election, which also applies to allowing a government where SD is included. The decision is incompatible with SD's demands for ministerial posts if the Tidö parties win the election. Some party must back down from what now sounds like ultimative demands.
Kristersson does not agree with the description that the playing field has changed and that he now has a harder time drawing the card that the opposition side lacks a government alternative.
It doesn't change anything. It's no news. It sounded roughly the same before the last election, he says.
Several of Kristersson's party colleagues, on the other hand, went through the roof when the message came. They spoke anonymously in various media about how they now hope that L will get zero percent in the election, instead of helping them over the parliamentary threshold with support votes.
Do you understand their frustration?
I'm not so easily frustrated, says Kristersson.
I have incredibly hard to see that we wouldn't be able to create a powerful government once again, if the voters give us the trust to continue getting order in Sweden. It's not on the map.
