Swedish politics; racist party party

[Lerkot]

Well we had some elections over here this Sunday. The right parties, "The Alliance", went together and took the win while the left side lost the power. The Social Democrats, a left party that has always been the largest in Sweden, made some monumental mistakes and lost together with the other two left parties (the Green Party and the Left Party) in the Swedish Parliament. The right bloc won with their Alliance with the Christian Democrats, the Centre Party, the Liberal People's Party and the largest right party in Sweden, the Moderates.

The Election:

Left bloc

Social Democrats 35,2% (-4,8)

Left Party 5,8% (-2,6)

Green Party 5,2% (+0,6)

Right bloc

Moderate Party 26,1% (+10,9)

Centre Party 7,9% (+1,7)

Christian Democrats 6,6% (-2,6)

Liberal People's Party 7,5% (-5,9)

So what does the right bloc want to do? Well Sweden probably has the largest welfare state in the world which is something that the right bloc is going to change by making Sweden more like the USA and you all know what I think of that. They think that Sweden has created a welfare culture where people dont work because they dont have to.

The right bloc also want privatization of the health care (like in the US), and they also want an privatization of Systembolaget, the government owned company that is the only company in Sweden that is the only retail store allowed to sell alcoholic beverages that contain more than 3.5% (volume) alcohol. Of course, the Christian Democrats are against it and might stop it from happening.

The most serious thing though is that a racist party, the Sweden Democrats, got a fairly large amount of votes. 1,9%, which is not enough to reach the parliament (you need 4%).

You vote on three levels. The parliament, the County Council and the Municipal Council. Sweden Democrats only got 1,9% in the parliament elections, but it went a lot better for them in the Municipal Councils. For example, in the fairly large city Landskrona, they become the second largest party with 22,3% and in many other municipalities in southern Sweden they got around 10%. This is a real disaster and it also makes it much harder to control the cities. For example, in Landskrona left parties will have to cooperate with right parties to stop Sweden Democrats from getting any power. Many other municipalities has to do the same thing to avoid them from getting any power. Its gonna be a problem now and it might get worse to the next election. Im not happy.

Its starting to look like some combination between USA and Denmark...