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<blockquote data-quote="Emelee" data-source="post: 339504" data-attributes="member: 73">They will do anything they can to compromise, but some things are off limit. The Sweden Democrats is the biggest party of the 4 right-wing parties, but the leader, Jimmie Åkesson, will never become PM. Instead, The Moderates&#039; Ulf Kristersson will be PM even though his party for 1% fewer votes than SD. This is mainly because the 3 other right-wing parties refuses to let Jimmie Åkesson be PM. The Liberals say they can work together with SD on a few things, but will not sit in a government with them.Either way, it&#039;s mostly the parliament making the most decisions and the government doing what the parliament has decided. When it&#039;s this very close between the left/center/right blocks, it&#039;s very difficult to get many of your suggestions to pass in the parliament. There are 349 people voting in the parliament when everyone&#039;s there. 176 from the right-wing side, 173 from the left-center side. If the Liberals with their ~17 seats votes no to a suggestion, it&#039;s suddenly 190 votes for no and the suggestion won&#039;t go through. This happens all the time nowadays since it&#039;s so tight between the blocks. And of course, no one forces you to vote the same way that your party has decided... It&#039;s enough for 2 people of the current 176 right-wingers to vote against. It can be frustrating of course, since so many suggestions get blocked. It&#039;s nearly impossible to change things drastically in Swedish politics. It happened recently when Russia invaded Ukraine. Then many former strong no-sayers to NATO changed their minds, including the Social Democrats.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emelee, post: 339504, member: 73"] They will do anything they can to compromise, but some things are off limit. The Sweden Democrats is the biggest party of the 4 right-wing parties, but the leader, Jimmie Åkesson, will never become PM. Instead, The Moderates' Ulf Kristersson will be PM even though his party for 1% fewer votes than SD. This is mainly because the 3 other right-wing parties refuses to let Jimmie Åkesson be PM. The Liberals say they can work together with SD on a few things, but will not sit in a government with them. Either way, it's mostly the parliament making the most decisions and the government doing what the parliament has decided. When it's this very close between the left/center/right blocks, it's very difficult to get many of your suggestions to pass in the parliament. There are 349 people voting in the parliament when everyone's there. 176 from the right-wing side, 173 from the left-center side. If the Liberals with their ~17 seats votes no to a suggestion, it's suddenly 190 votes for no and the suggestion won't go through. This happens all the time nowadays since it's so tight between the blocks. And of course, no one forces you to vote the same way that your party has decided... It's enough for 2 people of the current 176 right-wingers to vote against. It can be frustrating of course, since so many suggestions get blocked. It's nearly impossible to change things drastically in Swedish politics. It happened recently when Russia invaded Ukraine. Then many former strong no-sayers to NATO changed their minds, including the Social Democrats. [/QUOTE]

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