After a long period of growing tensions between partners in his administration, the announcement finally came that many had expected and hoped for: Löfven will resign as chairman of the Social Democrats at the congress in November and consequently he will also request to be dismissed as Prime Minister.
That Löfven’s impossible government has been able to survive so long is surprising and can only be attributed to the Left Party’s previously flexible attitude to its own policy. It is now over and the impossible strategy of including both the Center Party and the Left Party in decision-making has now reached the end of the road. The obvious trigger was probably Löfven’s newfound insight that he would never get his budget through.
However, his move will not involve any major changes in the short term. There is probably too little time left for it to be perceived as desirable for a snap election, so everything will be done to come up with some form of compromise that allows a new prime minister to be appointed. It does not have to be Löfven’s successor, whoever it is.
All the Social Democrat top names are more or less compromised through a series of scandals and their responsibility for the rampant crime in the wake of mass immigration, except one, Magdalena Andersson. The question is whether she is interested, as the risk is great that no matter who takes over, he or she will be known as the one who completed the Social Democrats’ pasokification.
Pasokification is the collapse of a Social Democratic party to become one of many parties, after the Greek Social Democratic Party Pasok.
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The Swedish public certainly doesn’t want another dose of socialist government, be it by Lofven or one of the other party hacks, or even by someone such as Andersson. It is not just about leadership character, but also about an agenda that is proving ruinous for public safety and the rule of law in Swedish society. Gang wars between non-European ‘immigrants’ are commonplace, and increasing in violence and casualties, and other violent crime, including sexual assaults of all types, by ‘immigrants’, are at an all-time high. The political landscape is indeed a bizarre one, and one that Lofven’s socialists have been able to exploit to stay in power. But the point has been reached where, even if the Swedish public remains unsure of what it might want in terms of who or what to lead the country, it seems, per opinion polls and the direction of politics, to know what it doesn’t want. Lofven and the socialist party leadership are at the top of that list.
I don’t know much about Swedish politics, but I find this surprising mostly because the government handled the pandemic so well – they did not promote hysteria like so much of the rest of the world. But perhaps the lack of that distraction has enabled people to concentrate on other concerns.
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