After what happened in Scotland what government where you allowed to have?
"Sweden opposition wins without majority" by Karl Ritter | Associated Press September 15, 2014
STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s Social Democrats were poised to return to power as the leaders of a left-leaning bloc that defeated the center-right government in a parliamentary election Sunday, but without an absolute majority.
With 99 percent of the district counted, the Green Bloc headed by the Social Democrats had 43.6 percent of the votes, compared with 39.5 percent for the center-right Alliance that has been in power for the past eight years, according to official preliminary results.
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats party more than doubled its support to 13 percent, leaving it with the balance of power in Parliament.
Another rightward swing against globalism!
The outcome is expected to end eight years of tax cuts and pro-market policies under Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who conceded defeat late Sunday and said he would step down.
A blow to the bankers!
It also means that a complicated situation looms, with Social Democrat leader Stefan Lofven likely to form a new government.
Lofven is expected to enter coalition talks with the environmentalist Green Party and the ex-communist Left Party. But even with the added support of a small feminist party, which an exit poll showed balancing on the 4 percent threshold to enter Parliament, he would be unlikely to get a majority.
Political analyst Mikael Sundstrom of Lund University said Lofven may try to win over one of the four center-right parties in Reinfeldt’s Alliance to build a stronger coalition, though none of them have expressed a desire to work with the Social Democrats.
I'm $en$ing the bankers will get what they want.
Reinfeldt, who took office in 2006, is the longest-serving conservative leader in Swedish history. Though he has won praise internationally for steering Sweden’s economy through Europe’s debt crisis in relatively good shape, many Swedes fear his pro-market policies have undermined the welfare system.
Reinfeldt’s Alliance has cut income and corporate taxes, abolished a tax on wealth, and trimmed welfare benefits. It has also eased labor laws and privatized state-owned companies, including the maker of Absolut vodka.
Meanwhile, the gap between rich and poor has grown faster in Sweden than in most developed countries, though it remains among the world’s most egalitarian, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
No wonder the Swedes gave them the heave-ho!
‘‘I hope that there will be a change,’’ said Jonathan Andersson, a 25-year-old chef in Stockholm who blamed the government for his problems finding a ‘‘proper’’ job. ‘‘They changed the employment law and now I just get temporary work.’’
It's always for the wor$t.
The once-radical Sweden Democrats party has softened its image over the years.
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The Globe is calling the rigged election in Scotland a victory for democracy so there really is no point in reading certain stories anymore. Sorry.
