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The contributor J Pingo Lindström argues that Sweden needs a pragmatic minority government led by the leader of the Christian Democrats, Ebba Busch, in collaboration with the Center Party and the Liberals, to break the current tradition that prime ministers always come from the Social Democrats or the Moderates. #SvenskPolitik #MinoritetRegering #EbbaBusch (translated)

Viktor Barth-Kron wrote that the leadership in the Stockholm Region seemed to be trying to copy the setup from the January Agreement, with a minority government consisting of S, MP, C, and L without secured support. He also wondered why representatives seemed surprised or outraged that the Left Party was using a strategy he described as "give 'em hell." #Politik #Sverige #Stockholm (translated)

According to Rosencrantz, he assessed after more than a month that a red-green majority government would not become a reality. He argued that the only opportunity for the Social Democrats, as in 2018, was a minority government tolerated by the Center Party, either with the Social Democrats alone or together with the Green Party and/or the Left Party. According to Rosencrantz, such a government would lack a majority for its economic policy, find it difficult to implement major reforms, and risk recurring government crises during the mandate period. He wrote that Magdalena Andersson faced this option or an early election, describing both outcomes as a failure and as the opposite of what the Social Democrats had promised voters. He also suggested that the development could be the beginning of the end for the Social Democrats' unique position as the governing party in Swedish politics. #svpol #politik #regering (translated)

Pontus Persson wrote that Expressen had mentioned that the Centre Party would govern Växjö in a minority coalition with the support of the Sweden Democrats. He believed that the newspaper seemed to have missed that, according to him, the Centre Party would govern Robertsfors together with the Sweden Democrats, the Moderates, and the Christian Democrats. https://t.co/4GgJJ5gq7V #Växjö #Robertsfors #politics (translated)

Mr. Husis wrote that foreigners could become part of the Swedish community, but that, according to him, this primarily applied to a small minority of immigrants with high human capital, often from nearby countries. He argued that it required a lot from the individual and that politics should not be shaped based on exceptions. According to him, the vast majority of those who came to Sweden, especially from countries outside Europe, would neither be able to nor want to become part of the country. He also wrote that Sweden could have avoided the drastic measures now needed if it had listened to those who warned about this twenty years ago. #Sverige #Integration #Invandring (translated)

Tom Jensen wrote in a leader in Berlingske that the two Muslim participants in last week's episode of the TV 2 program 'Højskolen' had invoked Danish values such as tolerance and inclusiveness to defend views he believed were far from those values. He raised questions about the limits of tolerance in Western democracies and referred to philosopher Karl Popper's argument that open societies must be able to protect themselves against intolerance. Jensen described a growing hatred of the West, which he linked to fundamentalist and dictatorial regimes, as well as people, often from MENAPT countries, who had obtained residency in the West. He wrote that some of them were increasingly allying with a left wing that accepted extreme views when they were expressed by minority representatives. He associated Hamas-apologetic pro-Palestinian demonstrations with parts of the recent unrest in France, growing antisemitism, and opposition to Iran's influence in the Middle East. He also connected the debate to Pia Kjærsgaard's showing of TikTok images of Afrah al-Jabouri in 'Højskolen'. Jensen wrote that free citizens had the right not to tolerate intolerance and warned that the foundation of society could otherwise crack. He concluded by stating that one must tolerate the bad atmosphere. https://t.co/M4FFmI3JqU #Tolerance #Demokrati #Ytringsfrihed (translated)

Johan Romin asked if anyone would be willing to let a party into the government if its candidates expressed support for Hamas, wrote antisemitic things, and participated in demonstrations that were perceived as extremely threatening to Sweden's Jewish minority. He wrote that the party was seen as full of such individuals, even though the recipient himself did not belong to the group. #Sverige #politik #antisemitism (translated)

Daniel Schatz referred to Fredrik Malm's text, where Malm claimed that Sweden and the Western world focused disproportionately on Palestine and neglected the vulnerability of other groups. He mentioned Kurds, Iranians, and Christians in the Middle East. Malm wrote that Kurds in Turkey had been forbidden to speak their language and identify as Kurds for 70 years, and that Kurds in Iraq had been subjected to war since the 1960s and genocide in the 1980s. According to Malm, Human Rights Watch had reported that 182,000 people had been killed. He also claimed that Yasser Arafat had supported the genocide and compared the war history of the Kurds with Palestinian factions, which he claimed had started ten wars in 60 years. Regarding Iran, Malm wrote that the opposition to the Islamic regime had protested for freedom, while the regime had tried to kill Iranians abroad. He accused the Swedish Palestine movement of supporting the mullahs and described how Iranians had, according to him, been silenced, tortured, and killed for more than 40 years. Malm stated that Christians constituted 20 percent of the population of the Middle East at the beginning of the 20th century, and at most 2.5 percent today. He also referred to ISIS persecution of Christian Assyrians and Syriacs in Mosul in 2014. Malm claimed that Islamism and war had driven Christians to flee and criticized Palestinian activists for celebrating the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist terror. https://t.co/WUoOR5opO7 #Kurdistan #Mellanöstern #HumanRights (translated)

After the chat scandal in Alingsås, a new red-green administration has been formed with the Social Democrats, the Left Party, the Green Party, and the Center Party, which signifies a shift in power from the previous minority coalition led by the Moderates. #Alingsås #Politik #Chattskandal (translated)

The letter writer Bengt Bengtsson argues that the Social Democrats and the Green Party should form a minority government with the support of the Left Party and the Centre Party, which he believes would be a better way forward than risking a snap election. #Regering #Sverige #Politik (translated)

Jessica Stegrud wrote that she believed that DN's image setting did not reflect reality. According to her, the committee minority was very critical and raised many unanswered questions. Stegrud interpreted the opponents' stance as a desire for a general amnesty for individuals who had at some point received residence permits on the grounds of family ties as children, practically regardless of circumstances and age. She wrote that the Sweden Democrats would never agree to that and that the course change the party had achieved during the last electoral period must continue. She emphasized that the party had not voted for a stop law. According to Stegrud, the decision instead meant that the red-green coalition, due to its majority in the committee, must prepare the matter and specify what they believed was lacking in the current legislation. #politik #Sverige #immigration (translated)

"The Congress introduced an explicit ban on the import of Russian energy in 2022 to prevent American dollars from financing Putin's brutal war against Ukraine," write the seven senators in the Foreign Relations Committee, led by minority leader Jeanne Shaheen. #Trump #Putin #USA (translated)

Currently, she is a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case where Myanmar is accused of genocide against the Rohingya minority – a case that the former Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has described as based on "unfounded allegations." #NaviPillay #NobelsFredspris #MänskligaRättigheter (translated)

Lars Andersen wrote that he wanted more TV where Muslims were asked about their views on freedom, gender, and society. He believed it would pave the way for remigration by showing the Danes what a large minority in Denmark believed. https://t.co/S1QPKPzazu #Danmark #Frihed #Samfund (translated)

The Christian persecutors during the Inquisition were convinced that they honored Jesus; today's greens are convinced that they promote the cause of anti-racism, while they persecute, slander, and shame a small minority. This includes the author and columnist Jonathan Freedland, who calls Polanski's arguments empty and illogical. #GreenParty #Sionism #Antisemitism (translated)