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The writer described it as their greatest nightmare to discover as a voter or party activist that they found themselves in the current situation. They referred to the fact that seven percent of voters had unknowingly voted for a think tank instead of a political party and suggested Lena Andersson's text. https://t.co/pX9ZdxjCVs #Väljare #Politik #Sverige #SE (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson argued that the government formation should be based on the fact that S, V, MP, and C had campaigned for a change of power and had Magdalena Andersson as a common candidate for prime minister. She wrote that C could not count in parties that did not support Andersson and at the same time demand influence based on their mandates. According to Gabrielsson, voters had given C 7 percent and V 8.4 percent, and V would not accept C pursuing right-wing policies with the support of V's mandate. Gabrielsson stated that C could seek support from Ulf Kristersson or try to get KD and L to switch sides. If that did not happen, C needed to negotiate with S, V, and MP to get a majority behind Andersson, according to her. She wrote that V was willing to compromise, but that the parties supporting a prime minister candidate must also be able to accept each other as a government basis. She criticized C’s growth proposals, including continued privatization of the Employment Service and permanent tax subsidies to cleaning companies and large restaurant chains. Gabrielsson claimed that the Economic Institute, the Fiscal Policy Council, and others had assessed the proposals as ineffective, expensive, and ineffective in creating jobs. She also wrote that the proposals would be financed through cuts to unemployment benefits and sick pay as well as cuts in welfare. Gabrielsson asserted that the most voters preferred a red-green government, followed by the Tidö alternative, while C's centrist alternative lagged far behind. She wrote that more people had voted for S, V, and MP than for the previous Alliance if SD was excluded. Finally, she urged C to first clarify its political direction and implied that the party needed to choose a side if it could not find a centrist solution. #Regering #Sverige #Politik (translated)

Ledarsidorna.se stated that Magda Andersson, Tobias Baudin, Anders Ygeman, and Lena Hallengren either had a lot to explain to members and voters or had a skewed self-image. The writer claimed that they had previously warned them about associations with Nooshi Dadgostar and the Left Party and suggested that they should remember how it went in 2010. According to Ledarsidorna.se, there was a price to pay for yielding to Aftonbladet's editorial and Daniel Suhonen, and they were now paying it. #svpol #svpol #politik #Sverige (translated)

A new survey shows that the Center Party's voters prefer a government with the Social Democrats, the Green Party, and the Left Party over a snap election, while a majority would rather choose a snap election than enter into a bourgeois government supported by the Sweden Democrats. #Val2026 #Centerpartiet #Vänsterpartiet (translated)

The Left Party criticizes the Social Democrats' decision to begin negotiations with right-wing parties, which they consider a betrayal of voters who supported a red-green policy for equal healthcare in the Stockholm Region. #Vänsterpartiet #JämlikSjukvård #RegionStockholm (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson questioned after a discussion with Martin Ådahl whether there was any other party that the Center Party considered sufficiently acceptable. She wrote that C had tolerated the Social Democrats and the Green Party because they had previously agreed to govern with bourgeois economic policy so that C would not collaborate with the Sweden Democrats. At the same time, she argued, C had criticized S for its migration policy and rejected the Left Party despite V agreeing with C on the issue. Gabrielsson contrasted this with what she described as a contradiction in the Center Party's rhetoric on decency. She pointed to ministers from the Moderates whom she considered increasingly Trump-like and accused them of going after journalists and conducting negative campaigns, as well as statements from the KD leader, the right's talk of voters as voting cattle, and comments from Member of Parliament Lars Beckman (M) and Alice Teodorescu (KD), whom she described as conspiracy theorists. She wrote that Ådahl and C seemed to believe that the former alliance parties did not really support their current policy, but had been kidnapped by SD and deep down wanted to return to the era of Fredrik Reinfeldt. Gabrielsson argued that Ådahl and Magdalena Andersson seemed to think that the parties would return to the center when the Tidö cooperation ended. She called the view condescending and emphasized that the changes could also have been made deliberately and voluntarily. During the election campaign, Gabrielsson stated, she had spoken with a leading center-right politician from Stockholm about more people voting for SD in the area where she grew up. She recounted that she had highlighted material and social reasons for dissatisfaction and mentioned a neighbor who worked almost around the clock on his farm and cleared snow in half of Norrland during the winters. According to Gabrielsson, the center-right politician had responded that a difficult life did not excuse a vote for SD, as others with difficult lives did not vote for the party. Gabrielsson also relayed that her father, who grew up in Ockelbo, used to refer to C and the farmers as "the right aristocracy." On Tuesday, he had told her that he had closed the door on a DN Kultur journalist who wanted to discuss the family's background and life in the countryside and in the industrial town of Åmotsbruk. Her father had also criticized C as the worst party of the day and said he preferred the party when it was at least a farmers' party. Gabrielsson wrote that she had corrected him, but at the same time agreed that a party with 7 percent could be perceived as self-satisfied if it assumed that others would follow its line. #Centerpartiet #Sverige #politik (translated)

Peter Wennblad wrote that the Feminist Initiative should see it as problematic that female voters were controlled by their husbands. He simultaneously assumed that even these testimonies would be dismissed as rumors and racism. #feminism #kvinnor #vadfinnsdetförproblem (translated)

Jan Lindberg wrote that a majority of voters wanted to replace the current ones with an unstable red-green alternative that, according to him, could not reach a consensus on any issue. He described it as a complete lapse in judgment, as the country needed stability when the neighboring region was threatened. https://t.co/RGRroT1a3o #politik #Sverige #val2024 (translated)

Jan Ericson responded with a counter-argument and called the claim a scam. He wrote that it was clear where anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews were found. During his 30 years as an active moderate, he had, according to his own statement, never met a moderate politician or voter who expressed anti-Semitic views. #antisemitism #politik #Sverige (translated)

Daniel Schatz wrote about suspicions of electoral fraud in Malmö and referred to reports of combined ballot envelopes, disinformation in Arabic, and voters who, according to the reports, had been pressured to vote for the Left Party. He stated that incident reports from Rosengård contained recurring accusations of undue electoral influence and that a mosque was identified for attempts to sway voters' choices. Schatz wrote that the information, if true, represented a serious attack on the integrity of the election. He believed that the matter should be immediately reported to the police and examined by the Election Review Board. https://t.co/WJ7D7AGfQT #Valfusk #Malmö #Valintegritet (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson wrote that she had difficulty understanding Thand Ringqvist's argument on Agenda that the Left Party and the Center Party were far apart. She claimed that the Center Party was not particularly close to any of the other parties with Magdalena Andersson as the prime ministerial candidate in economic policy. According to Gabrielsson, the Center Party had chosen the same prime ministerial candidate as the red-green parties to avoid governing with the Sweden Democrats, but the choice also meant that the party would have less influence on its bourgeois economic policy. Gabrielsson wrote that she did not want to decide which side the Center Party should choose, but felt that the party should have thought through the consequences before going to the election on Andersson. She argued that the Center Party's actions risked blocking both possible government alternatives. Since the election result, according to her, meant that the four parties' mandates were needed to choose Andersson as prime minister, she believed that the parties had to compromise. She emphasized that the business community had not voted and that each voter had had a vote. She also wrote that most red-green voters wanted to see a government with the Social Democrats, the Left Party, and the Green Party, while the voters of the Tidö parties had other favorites. According to Gabrielsson, parties should not negotiate with mandates from voters who had voted for another government alternative, and she believed that the election result must be reflected in politics. The Left Party wanted to be part of the government, according to her, to be able to implement reforms and agreements. Gabrielsson wrote that it was difficult to understand why the Center Party opposed the Left Party in the government and claimed that the Center Party's content in a possible agreement should be respected on the same terms. #politiksverige #val2023 #demokrati (translated)

Jan Ericson called the image presented by Motargument extremely false. He wrote that in his nearly 30 years as a Moderate politician, he had never heard or seen a Moderate politician or voter express hatred towards Jews. However, he claimed that hatred frequently recurred among V-politicians and voters. #politik #hat #moderater (translated)

Jan Lindberg wrote that he had perceived P1's panel as viewing the Center Party's most important issue as being against SD, while policy matters were secondary. He claimed that the party did not care about implementing its politics and expressed himself in a strongly derogatory manner about the party and its voters. #svpol #Centerpartiet #politik (translated)

Daniel Schatz wrote that it had only taken a few weeks for the Centre Party to open up to the Left Party. He claimed that C thereby granted power and political legitimacy to a party characterized by romanticism of terror, anti-Semitism, extremism, and support for dictatorships. Schatz described the Centre Party's talk of maintaining distance from extremism as a bluff and wrote that the party's red lines had been abandoned when power beckoned. He accused C of sacrificing its principles and voters for a seat at the negotiating table and predicted that history would judge the party harshly. #politik #Sverige #demokrati (translated)

Ledarsidorna.se reported that Abukar Aden, known as Boos Caato, had confirmed that he was mobilizing Somali voters ahead of the Swedish election in 2026 and described his contacts with Somali politicians as private relationships. The site also stated that the documentation showed how Swedish association grants, aid projects, and networks linked people in Sweden with Somalia's political institutions. Ledarsidorna.se raised the question of which groups were actually represented. https://t.co/QMkHB8x6vi #svpol #somaliskpolitik #svenskavalet #demokrati (translated)

Flávio Bolsonaro is trying to win back his father's voters in the dangerous suburbs of Rio de Janeiro by participating in a motorcycle caravan and promoting his right-wing nationalist agenda ahead of the Brazilian presidential election. #FlávioBolsonaro #Brasilien #Högernationalism (translated)