Can someone explain what church elections are fought over?

I'd prefer not to. It's a national emberrassment.

Centre Party (ALDE)
- Kent Johansson (undeclared) (replaced Lena Ek)

The rumours I've heard in the party is that he'll indeed run again.

In exactly one year, I will vote for the first time (except for the Church of Sweden elections this fall), in the elections to the European Parliament.

The EP elections were my first election as well. Can't believe it's already been four years. >.< Where did all the time go?

Cant stand the excitement. Its like waiting for Christmas Eve when you were a kid. Has the average weight of Bavarian house wifes gone up? And is the beer consumption of German workers affected by Hartz IV?   

My parents are under the impression that I am still a virgin :p

Well naturally. You're an active member of this forum after all.

It depends on what qualifies as being a just cause.

If it means having the same system as in Sweden, that's too much as it almost takes an employee blowing something up to be qualified to get fired. Being bad or inefficient at your job is not considered a just cause for example.

We had a teacher in High School who was terrible at her job. Classes with her contained her sitting at her desk checking her computer while we were given some philosophical question to discuss for 60 min. (This was not philosophy class, this was media studies class) She was also rude to students and collegues. But none of this qualified as just cause, because as long as they fullfil their assignment (holding a class) you cannot fire them for the quality, and you could not fire her for a personality trait. (being rude)

On the other hand, it'd also be unfair if you could be fired for a small non-important mistake after doing a good job for 20 years.   

Obviously employers should have a cause for fireing someone, but it should be very loosly defined as to what is a just cause.



 

(Is that roughly what the Sweden Democrats say or are they taking a more moderate approach ?)

Well their Youth Union wants to use military force against the rioters... so, no.
But yeah the usual calls for unlawful immigrants to be sent home, and their entire family as well, are of course also being made.

[Big Bipartisan Compromise on Free Schools]

Some non-riots related Swedish news:

Big Bipartisan Compromise on Free Schools

Six of the major parties today announced an agreement on the Swedish free school system. Free schools are privatly owned schools that are open to everyone and financed through vouchers.

The compromise means that it'll still be possible to run these schools for a profit, while introducing stricer regulation and quality control, more and increased sanctions and punishments when the system is abused.

A very good and common sense agreement all in all if you ask me.

SKOP poll

A new poll by SKOP. It was taken before the riots began, so I wouldn't give it much weight after the last days.

M: 28,5%
Fp: 5,8%
C: 4,2%
Kd: 3,7%
S: 34,2%
V: 5,4%
Mp: 9,9%
Sd: 6,6%


Alliance: 42,2%

Left-wing: 49,5%

Sweden Democrats: 6,6%

Do you ever get tired of being presumptius dooms-day prophet?

It's hard to imagine a better course of action for the rioters. .

No, no it's not.
A large peaceful protest would probably wake sympathy and debate on the issue, and if large enough would force the politicians to act.

These riots on the other hand only feed into the narrative that the inhabitans in these places are uncivilised barbarians, and will give legitimancy to xenophobic forces who wants anything but to improve their situation.

 The real shame is the majority of the people living in these places who don't want anything to do with the riots, who actually protested the violence and vandalism, had stones thrown at them, and will now get guilt by acossiation.

At the same time, no politician will do anything to improve their situation, because that would seem like given a child that has a hissy fit exactly what it wants.
 

More riots going on tonight, now in Botkyrka and Malmö as well.

Sigh, obviously these people will only end up making things worse for themselves, why don't they understand that?

There has already been riots in Rosengård back in '08, just not this big and long.

There is already a general Sweden thread you know.

The Sweden Democrats must love this.

Oh they do! So very much.

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/abc/just-nu-stenkastning-under-demonstration

And this is just in. Rioters throwing stones at a group of people who're peacfully protesting the riots. Lovely...

I can't say anything for Stronach, but Faymann will come and cook. Either that or both he and his campaign advisors have no political talant. Especially if he's seen as the stiff wooden one he can't pass this up, that'd just feeds into the narrative.    

http://diepresse.com/home/politik/innenpolitik/1404389/Nationalratswahl_Puls-4-laesst-
This format is probably most appealing to the housewifes.

Speak for your-self. Sounds facinating. They should export this idea to Sweden. Swedish people are crazy about their cooking-shows.

Faymann will come. The thing with these sorts of things is that if one comes they all comes. They can't afford to say no to positive exposure that their opponents say yes to.

Any particular reason the NW corner of Scania is so right wing? There are other rural areas in Scania that are far more balanced.

Because it's the most beautiful place in all of Sweden, and it's not just me who thinks that.
Thus it's a very popular place to live or have a summer house,  which makes it very expensive, which means it's very wealthy.

Great job

2010 (Yes, there is a 75%+ margin in Danderyd)

Lidingö isn't that far behind...

Why not start with serching for old threads discussing them There aought to be a few to pick from.

And as a bonus, while we're at Skåne, here is a map of SD support in Skåne.

[2002:]

Some more maps.
Skåne County this time. (General election results '02-'10)



2002:



2006:




2010:




The right-wing shift of suburban/exurban Malmö is really faciating.

And he's [Fälldin] still alive. I met two of his grandkids at the Centre Youth Congress. ^^

Have Fälldin made any statements on what he thinks of the Centre Party of today (certainly much more right-wing than in his time)? And what is the feeling amongst older Centre members in general about the current direction of the party?

Nope, he's not made any statements about the party for a decade as far as I'm aware off. But he's very old and frail. Older Centre Party members have not been happy about the party's direction, but that's a given.

BTW, do the constituencies correspond to counties? Or portions of counties? Or groups of counties? Or is there no relationship at all?

They correspond to the counties, but the three most populus counties (Stockholm, Västra Götaland, and Skåne) are split into smaller constituencies.

[Socialist Labour Party (SLP)]

I already have a fantasy republic called Ergney that I created back in 2011 that I regurlarly update and add new information and history to. The six parties currently in parliament are:

Socialist Labour Party (SLP)
36,2% ('09 election) - 43 seats (out of 109)

Emerged in the early 1900's as the political wing of the trade-unions in the country, advocating labour-rights and democratic socialism. Today it's main goal is to create a strong social safety-net, protect labour-rights and create economic equality while supporting a free market. Moderate to progressive on social issues, strongly support immigration.


National Alliance (NA)
35,5% ('09 election) - 41 seats

Founded as a merger of the National Party and the Liberal Party in 1945 it's been the major party of the right since, being a liberal-conservative big tent strongly supporting low taxes, a strong military, decentralisation of powers to the country's regions. Mostly moderate on social issues, but generally try to avoid the subject. 


Christian People's Front (CPF)
7,1% ('09 election) - 7 seats

Started in the 60's as a counter reaction to the legalisation of abortion and homosexuality, as well as other moral decay. The major social-conservative party that portrays itself as the defender of good Christian family values. Centrist on economic issues. Strongly support subsidies to agriculture which helps them be strong in rural areas.


Progressive Future Party (PFP)
6,8% ('09 election) - 6 seats

A party created in the 80's that stands for social-liberalism, enviormentalism, and combinding support for small business and a liberal market based economy with a strong modern welfere state. The number one choice for latte-liberals everywhere. 


Ergney Popular Movement (EPM)
6,4% ('09 election) - 7 seats

A populist anti-establishment, and nationalist movement. Wants more direct democracy. Supports having both a strong welfere system while still keeping taxes low by stopping immigration and slashing buerocracy.


United Left of Ergney (ULE)
5,6% ('09 election) - 5 seats

Not a party, but a cooperative list for three minor parties of the fringe left:
Democratic Communist Party (DCP) - What's left of Ergney's old Communist party. Hard-left.
People's Party of Vitra (PPV) - A regionalist Social Democratic party, supports decentralised power to regions.
Ecology Green Party (EGP) - Enviormental- and animal rights party. Very statist.   

Fäldin is/was from Ångermanland (I read once his memoirs). There is some free church areas in Västerbotten, which could affect the support of FP.

Which is right on the border of Västerbotten. And if I don't remember incorrectly he was only born in Ångermanland, but lived in Västerbotten.

And he's still alive. I met two of his grandkids at the Centre Youth Congress. ^^

With regards to the former, Västerbotten is interesting. What's behind that shift?

I'm not sure, but I have a few theories.

The county is much more urbanised today than it was in the 70's. In 1976 only 21% of the population lived in the largest city "Red" Umeå, but today it's 31% of the county's population that live there, and a lot are people from other left-wing areas in north Sweden.

The parts of Västerbotten that used to be it's centre-right heartland was also mostly rural/agrarian Centre Party voters, and as C declined as the major force on the right so did these old Centre strong-holds.

Also, I believe what pushed Västerbotten over the edge in the 70's also had a lot to do with home state advantage for Thorbjörn Fälldin.   


What I completly fail to understand though is Gotland, and how it went from the centre-right's 2nd best constituency to it's 18th best. 

 

[Centre-right]

Since I'm suppouse to study for my finals, I made some maps...

Left-Right result for Sweden's 29 constituencies' since 1973. (First unicameral general election) 

Centre-right = M + C + Fp (+ Kd)
Centre-left = S + V (+ Mp)












The 1994 map gives me nightmares.

Brilliant thread.

Keep strong and healthy Clarence! You and Wendy deserve many more beautiful years together before your time is up.

Take care old man, we're all with you here.