Sweden election results thread (Sept 14, 2014)

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Any chance the left and the Sweden Democrats form a coalition? Basically, left-wing policy on everything except for immigration.

Ha, no.

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So SD voters are shy toward exit pollsters and FI supporters are outgoing toward exit pollsters

It makes sense, Sd is still not a respectable choice.

And young people love a fad (see also: Yes Scotland).

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Great job, Swedes! Welcome to the same nightmarish hell that other European countries have been living through for a while. Apparently you're no better than them.

Being a little overdramatic here, aren't we? It's still going to be a minority for the left.

Yeah, with a bunch of xenophobic bastards holding the balance of power. Surely this is gonna be a wonderful left-wing government.

SAP cooperation across the aisle with the centre-right is not exactly an alien concept to Swedish politics.

Yeah, isn't that quite a common thing in Scandinavia? Hasn't HTS had to get some stuff passed with Venstre instead of Red-Green in Denmark? (or am I thinking of Borgen?)

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Wait. Just reading the BBC's article. Reinfeldt privatised Absolut Vodka? The government owned a Vodka company!?

Socialism.

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It was neither a surprising result or a big surprise that SD got more votes than the polls showed.

Is that supposed to make things better? It's not working.

No it was not supposed making you feel better, it was a comment about stop making a big drama out it, the new government will likely keep Reinfeldt promise about taking 360 000 Syrian refugees in the next 4 years (more than Germany takes), they will likely raise the taxes to pay for it. So be happy for that at least.

In Antonios defence, if you view the last 40 years of European history as one long rearguard battle for Social Democrats against an advancing neoliberal wave (and that is not an unreasonable take on European political history), then a party as strong as SAP not being able to regain a left wing majority with a worn down bourgeois government is a big dissapointment.
Basically it is yet another proof that Social Democracy as a political force is in big trouble even in countries where it once dominated.

But it's not under threat from liberals and conservatives. It's under threat from the far-right, to state the obvious. These leftist parties still haven't quite come to terms with this. UKIP here in the UK is bit different, but center-left parties in Europe are basically losing youngs to the far-right as their olds are dying.

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The Red-Greens have only added on 2 seats net...

Terrible.

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Remember that the capital or largest city usually gives you some clues on future trends.

Hillary to win 90% of the PV, heard it here first