Preliminary results are due from the Swedish Election Authority within hours, while vote counting will begin on Monday, with official results expected within a week
Sweden’s centre-left opposition bloc, which backs Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson for prime minister, was projected to win 51.3% of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary election, according to an exit poll by broadcaster SVT.
“Center-left” is really bending the words. The party called “center”, which is part of that bloc, is very much an economic right wing party. They just draw the line at racists, which the other right wing parties do not.
I don’t trust them not to flipflop on that either. Also them calling Vänsterpartiet “extremist” is ridiculous.
It’s probably them being butt hurt for the left preventing them in couping in market rents under the social democrat government last time.
That is really all there is to it.
but the bloc backs the Social Democrats, who are very much economically left
That’s, by definition, not possible. At least depending on how we define socdem
Not if they’re anything like their Danish sister party has been for the last 20 or so years…
could you elaborate?
Sure.
When it was founded over 150 years ago, it was the most left wing national party in the country.
They continued being solidly left wing until Poul Nyrup Rasmussen took over as leader in 1992. Then followed a period of center left economic policies and permissive immigration politics.
Ever since the Fogh Rasmussen introduced spin doctors to Danish politics, though, the whole thing has been ratcheting right.
The economic policies especially took a turn under Thorning-Schmidt, and current prime minister Mette Frederiksen has REALLY turned the screws on Muslim immigrants, basically treating them like the farthest right parties did in the 90s.
from what I read, Frederiksen has also shifted the party to the left economically. she implemented earlier retirement and higher pensions—financed by increasing corporate taxes by 4% and taxing corporate real-estate appreciation—subsidized dental healthcare with a goal of completely including it in free public healthcare, taxed carbon at $40–$100 per ton (incl. agriculture), and campaigned on free public transport (no fare) for those <22. she also campaigned on some wealth tax this year, which is what gave me the impression, but chickened it out for the liberals.
she considers anti-immigration as being economically left as well due to being cheap labor for capitalists that displace unionized workers, which … is another reason why I hate economists, all of which reduce humans to statistics. but even excluding the anti-immigration, it seems economically left to me.
She really hasn’t, no.
For select professions only, after unsuccessfully trying to make the work week longer for EVERYONE to ensure that nebulous “growth” that Neoliberals and Conservatives alike are so obsessed with to the detriment of those areas of society that are already the most underfunded.
That one slipped by me, though, that’s an excellent step in the right direction! Tiny, but still excellent.
That one’s true, but a concession to the left wing of her coalition so they’d accept her continuing as Prime Minister rather than something she ever wanted herself.
That’s a good start too.
Another concession to the Left, specifically an important policy for SF (Socialist People’s Party by name, but long since more of a social democratic party picking up the voters the nominal Social Democrats left behind when they drifted right)
Fixed it for you.
Which is some demagogue nonsense leading to a lot of unnecessary hardship for the people in general, not just the immigrants directly targeted.
The left wing solution to which is to help the immigrant workers being exploited and penalize the employers exploiting them.
Hurting immigrants to (pretend to) help unions is some of the most insidious and harmful demagoguery ever.
And often misrepresent the statistics too. Immigrants (especially those on political/humanitarian asylum) are a huge net POSITIVE for the host economy, most of all low income people.
No thanks. Immigrant lives matter.
It mostly isn’t, though.
As I’ve conceded above, her economic policy hasn’t been UNIVERSALLY bad/right wing, but most of it has been and continues to.
Fair enough. Being Danish myself, I know much less about them than I do about the Danish ones.
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No. They even admit in their advertising that they’re economically right but just a little less than the other right wing parties.
Aw shit !