Posted on 11/14/2018 2:01:13 PM PST by Nextrush
The third attempt to form a government in Sweden since September's General Election failed by a 195-154 vote.
The leader of the Moderate Party, leading party of the "Right" bloc, Ulf Kristersson proposed a government led by the Moderates and the Christian Democrats.
In the end only the Sweden Democrats joined those two parties in support of his government with the "Left" bloc against and the two other "Right" bloc parties, the Center and Liberal parties, voting against the government.
Now back to square one with perhaps the Social Democrats or the Center Party getting a shot a trying to form a government.
Center Party leader Annie Loof spoke of the notion of a cross-party government to exclude the Sweden Democrats.
These party titles mean nothing to us here in the States. Where do they line up on the ideological spectrum?
Are European Christian Democrats either Christian or democratic? In the USA, the Democrats certainly aren’t democratic!
According to whom?
Your blog?
Piss on that.
>>> Center Party leader Annie Loof spoke of the notion of a cross-party government to exclude the Sweden Democrats. <<<
Ms Loof should just accept sharia.
Why not post it from where you got it without involving your blog?
The “Right” coalition consisted of 4 parties: the Moderates, the Christian Democrats, the Center and Liberal parties.
The Center and Liberal parties are pro-immigration “conservative in name only” parties with about 40 seats between them, but just enough to deny a majority if the Moderates and the Christian Democrats ally themselves with the Sweden Democrats (who are militantly anti-immigrant).
All a waste of time. The ONLY party that matters will be aligned with Sharia soon enough.
Key part: “Three more parliamentary votes to choose a new prime minister can be held before new elections must be called”.
If new elections are scheduled, it will come down to a referendum on immigration, and the voters will now know where each party stands.
I am sorry, but given our history of what has be experience, not design, been mostly a “two party” polity for most of our republic, I believe it has turned out better (more functional) governments, over the long run, than many of European nations polities that have built multi-party polities often with no majority party among them. While American pundits have derided this as “divisive” when you look at many European states thy are way more divisive and often can only get “coalition” governments that often do not survive the mandate they are given when the sufficient coaltion was formed.
No wonder the Europeans want an overload to rule over them from Brussels.
I doubt if they are either. From what I know of it the Scandinavian countries are the least religious of any.
Thanks for the info.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riksdag
The Swedish parliament has 349 seats. You need 175 for a majority. The Left has 144, the center-Right coalition has 143, the nationalist Sweden Democrats have 62. The Right plus SD would be a majority of 206, except that the coalition’s two pro-immigrant “moderate” parties (Center with 31 seat and Liberals with 20 seats) refuse to be part of any coalition which gives SD’s power. But if one of the two “moderates” joins a coalition which includes the SDs, then that would be a majority.
I don’t see any way out which does not involve a new election.
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