Sweden still lacks a government five weeks after the election, and Speaker Andreas Norlén will hold a press conference today to inform about the next steps in the government formation after the parliament voted down S-leader Magdalena Andersson as prime minister. #Riksdagsvalet2026 #Regeringsbildning #Sverige (translated)
Adam Danieli wrote that the Stockholm housing market had collapsed and claimed that the Parliament had purchased hundreds of apartments so that the members would not be affected. He called it completely unreasonable and urged the parliamentary members to live according to the laws they had enacted. https://t.co/dnnN3y5leY #Bostadsmarknad #Riksdagen #Sverige (translated)
In a letter to the editor in DN on October 8, Eva Zetterberg, a member of the Left Party and former Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, presented an excellent proposal for a solution to the ongoing government formation. #Vänsterpartiet #politiskdebatt #stödparti (translated)
Roger MSGA wrote that language requirements needed to be implemented both in elder care and in parliament. He expressed surprise at that. #språkkrav #äldreomsorg #riksdagen (translated)
Mats Yxhäll wrote that he sometimes wondered how an independent television channel would investigate what he called nonsense. He asked how a person who, according to him, could not speak Swedish, despite having lived in the country for 23 years, could be elected to the parliament. He also wondered how Ali could be elected despite Ali, according to Yxhäll, not knowing what one does in parliament. Yxhäll wrote that SVT was considered independent by some, but that the channel that day instead featured a segment about AI-generated articles from Vietnam that were about Ali. #Sverige #Media #Demokrati (translated)
Daniel Schatz wrote that the Green Party's Mohamed Abdukani had taken a seat in the parliament after a campaign that was largely conducted in Somali, just like the campaigns for his party colleagues Leila Ali Elmi and Mursal Isa. Schatz stated that Abdukani, after eight years in the municipal council, had also become the Green Party's spokesperson for education policy and a member of the education committee. He questioned how Abdukani would manage the task with what Schatz described as limited knowledge of Swedish. #politik #utbildning #mångfald (translated)
The writer stated that it was reasonable to require basic knowledge of Swedish from members of parliament. They argued that today's system did not allow candidates to be openly tested and scrutinized by opponents, voters, and the media, and added that a person could obviously be completely unknown. #Sverige #Riksdagen #Språkkompetens #SE (translated)
Ramona Fransson wrote that she did not understand why the Green Party had appointed the man as a school representative in the parliament. She stated that he had reportedly lived in Sweden for 23 years and questioned his knowledge of Swedish. https://t.co/ZgVNIGRS2e #Sverige #Utbildning #Språk (translated)
The same thing was said by the then Speaker of the Riksdag, Per Westerberg, in the context of government formation in 2014, but the parties ignored it. #Riksdagen #Budget2023 #Politik (translated)
The letter writer Jonas Nycander proposes that the Speaker Andreas Norlén should postpone the fourth prime minister vote until after the budget vote in order to prioritize the substance of politics over tactical maneuvers. #Riksdagen #Budget2023 #Politik (translated)
Aja baja wrote to Hassan Khan that higher demands should be placed on members of parliament: they should be born in Sweden, have attended Swedish schools, have at least ten years of work experience, and have an education. The person wrote that the parliament was not a preschool and that competence and Sweden should always come first. Aja baja also claimed that Sweden did not have politicians in Somalia or the Middle East and ended with clown and facepalm emojis. #Sverige #Politik #Arbetsliv (translated)
Daniel Schatz wrote that V's Mohamed Ali had concluded his sick leave from his parliamentary duties and claimed that his actions had already cost taxpayers over 50,000 kronor. Schatz wrote that he expected Ali to come to the parliament on Monday and hold a press conference about what he described as electoral fraud in Borlänge and questions regarding how Ali became a Swedish citizen. Schatz also wrote that he expected the Enforcement Authority to come to the parliament on Monday morning, serve Ali on-site, and collect debts that Schatz claimed Ali had systematically refused to pay. He believed that what Ali was doing and what he described as a mockery of voters and taxpayers had to stop. #SverigesRiksdag #Politik #Valfusket (translated)
Aja baja wrote that members of parliament should be born in Sweden, have attended Swedish schools, have at least ten years of work experience, and have an education. The writer believed that parliament should not function as a preschool and that competence and Sweden should always come first. https://t.co/AAC7wXucky #Sverige #Riksdagen #Politik (translated)
Isabelle Eriksson wrote that identity politics led to individuals being elected to the parliament primarily to represent the interests of an ethnic group, rather than those of Sweden and the Swedish people. #Identitetspolitik #Sverige #Riksdagen (translated)
Cimmerian wrote that Somalis in the parliament had three advantages: according to him, the members of parliament would experience multiculturalism at their workplace, people would see how absurd the democracy they praised was, and they would witness what he presented as the Somalis' lack of ability. #Mångkultur #Demokrati #Somalier (translated)
Aja baja wrote that Mohamed Abdukani (MP) was worried about the Swedish school, but claimed that he himself had evidently never attended it. The writer also described the parliament as a circus. https://t.co/gDw0bQ9Cgl #SvenskaSkolan #Riksdagen #Politik (translated)
Pontus Persson mocked the fact that the Green Party's nomination committee, according to his post, had spoken to one person and judged that the person's Swedish was good enough for a place on the party's parliamentary list. He called it a mockery of the parliament as an institution and of the Swedish people. #Miljöpartiet #Svenskpolitik #Riksdag (translated)
Anna1849 wrote that Mohamed Abdukani had been a member of the municipal council since 2018 and was now a member of parliament. She urged readers to listen to his speech and the subsequent debate, where he, according to her, spoke about his concerns for the Swedish school system. She added that the parliament's broadcasts now had subtitles and referred to a list where readers could look up his name. https://t.co/r9ZLQG0zJs #SvenskPolitik #Utbildning #Riksdagen (translated)
Plainview called it undignified to allow certain individuals into the Swedish Parliament and wrote that there should be a limit. For Swedes to maintain their faith in democracy, according to Plainview, the members of Parliament needed to be Swedish, speak Swedish, and have an IQ level that was not comparable to a shoe size. #Sverige #Demokrati #Riksdag (translated)
Daniel Schatz wrote that Mohamed Abdukani, whom he called the MP's "cross rocket," took a seat in the parliament after a campaign that, according to Schatz, was largely conducted in Somali. He also stated that gender-separated seating had occurred at a campaign meeting. Schatz questioned how Abdukani would manage his parliamentary duties and referred to the fact that he, according to Schatz, had found it difficult to participate in a debate in Swedish in the chamber. #politik #riksdagen #somaliasvenskar (translated)
