On Friday, the Social Democrats' executive committee met at the party headquarters on Sveavägen in Stockholm. The S tops were speechless as they left the meeting.
We are analysing the election and the situation going forward, there is nothing strange about that, says MP Anders Ygeman (S).
He does not want to comment on whether a new speaker candidate has been proposed for Monday.
EU parliamentarian Heléne Fritzon (S) says that "it's time to lower the tone and sit down and start talking to each other."
That's my experience of how to solve it at the local and regional level, and then it usually works out well.
Silent about negotiations
It has now been a week since Speaker Andreas Norlén gave the exploratory mission to S leader Magdalena Andersson.
She then announced that she would contact six of the other party leaders (all except SD leader Jimmie Åkesson).
Since then, there has been silence about how things are going. But neither the Centre Party nor the Left Party have backed down from their red lines.
In a post on X on Thursday evening, Left Party deputy leader Ida Gabrielsson writes, in response to articles in DN, that the party will not budge on the government issue.
"You can just take it and forget it," she writes.
“Suicide Mission”
If the Centre Party were instead to turn right and support a government with Ulf Kristersson as prime minister, it would be a "suicide mission" for the party, according to Gabrielsson.
“There are not enough moderate support votes to bring in two 'liberal' parties on the right-wing nationalist side,” she writes.
Gabrielsson also comments on the ongoing police investigation into suspected election fraud in Dalarna linked to the Left Party, and writes that V received the information via the media.
On Thursday, V leader Nooshi Dadgostar told TT that the suspected election fraud is serious and must be investigated, but that it does not affect the government negotiations.
S leader Magdalena Andersson has said that she takes the allegations "very seriously".
Neither C leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist nor MP spokespeople have spoken publicly in the past week, however, both C and MP have had meetings with their new parliamentary groups.
