The rise of the right-wing populists and the stalemate of the two major blocks in the Reichstag, whirling the mess played the political System in Sweden. It is the end of the harmony in the Swedish policy.
Sensation-driven polls saw the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats with a quarter of the votes in the first place in the Swedish Parliament or even the government. The Swedes chose a different way: The right-winger may have won the final, but with around 17 percent of the votes, not to grow your trees still in the sky, even if victory wants to make drunken rhetoric to believe this.
Rethinking the established parties
In Sweden, a well-established System of political alliances in the middle-left-Block alternating with a centre-Right Block in a beautiful harmony of the government prevailed over the decades. The social Democrats had in the recent history of the country, mostly in the nose in front.
This informal appointment ensured that often minority governments, given the fortunes of the country, which could be from the other side to tolerate and for that, with some compromises in the legislation paid for. The result was a consensus-driven policy, you could call addicted to harmony – if you look at this negatively.
After the election, with a stalemate of the two blocks, need to rethink the established parties. The rise of the Sweden Democrats forcing you to look beyond the camp boundaries, according to similarities and to build a new constellation of the political center. You could be based in the Netherlands, where after the election last year, a similar Situation had arisen, as the right-wing populist Geert Wilders is a relatively good election result for import.
It took eight months before a grouping of mid-could to the Right to form parties in The Hague, a government. The was managed to minimize by the insulation of Wilders in the Dutch policy. Today, he is meaningless, if, in the meantime, new groups have emerged on the extreme Right. From this example, you could learn in Stockholm to forge entrenched political patterns and break through new coalitions, which also correspond to the will of the voters may be more than the previous warehouse think.
Keeps the Firewall?
All established parties promised during the election campaign, with the Sweden Democrats, no Alliance. In the last few weeks, however, there were here and there, Statements from smaller parties, which seem to flirt with such ideas. The major parties should warn you in the case of the formation of the government before such experiments. After all, about 83 percent of the Swedes voted for the southpaw.
The end of the block thinking? Ballot paper in a Stockholm polling station
In the public view and in the mirror of the media, the right-wing parties often occupy the air space over the master tables of the public discourse. It is up to the old parties, the repression of the right voices to the right level. About mistakes of the past must be spoken; the country needs more policemen, more teachers and a different kind of integration policy. However, the Sweden is clear that they – most with some legitimate Concerns – still in one of the richest and safest countries in the world.
Caution, the Sweden Democrats are dangerous
A part of the success of party leader Jimmy Akesson is undoubtedly in his art of presentation. He comes, therefore, as a mixture of a successful lawyer and son-in-law’s mother’s favorite. He is well-parted and dressed, smiles winningly, and has tempered its rhetoric so far that it may appear to many, Sweden is hardly a radical or dangerous.
Mother-in-law, darling, superficial Jimmie Akesson detoxifies:
Akesson has managed to detoxify his party are superficial and in a way, as if behind a “normal” political movement. The Sweden Democrats have their roots in the neo-Nazi scene, they come from a dark brew surface that acted since the 80s, at the edges of the Swedish policy. Akkesson denies today that its ideology is racist or Islamophobic, but there are enough quotes of him from the recent past, which demonstrate the contrary. And among the members of the party of the radical right-wing thought is enough to recommend caution in relation to a further rise of the Sweden Democrats.
Sweden was later than other European countries, from the new nationalism and identity politics caught up with the stranger-and Europe is hostile and, similar to their close friends in Hungary, Poland and Italy, the demand for “Sweden” on your banner writes. The Sweden Democrats are in complete contrast to the harmony and balance considered the political culture of the country. The clashes in the Parliament in Stockholm will be harder and more ruthless. And the established parties need to come out of their comfort zone, to put up with the uncertainties and Fears of their citizens to actively be apart of.