Mellin: Sweden’s rarest government – Aftonbladet

Mellin: Sweden's rarest government – Aftonbladet

Stefan Löfven will form Sweden’s rarest government.

It differs in several ways from a regular, if there are any.

By all accounts, Stefan Löfven to be elected prime minister on Thursday and present its declaration, and the government on Friday.

It will be at many different points differ from a normal S-led government.

first This is the first S-led government in eight years. As long as the Social Democrats have not been out of power since Sweden became a democracy.

That is, the Social Democrats’ point of view, lucky that they got the chance to lead the government despite the meager results of the election. The alternative would be to the party imploded, three terms outside Rosenbad disagree with self-image.

second This is the first time in 57 years that the Social Democrats put themselves in a coalition government. In the mid-1990s, they collaborated admittedly only with the Left, and then with the Centre Party and between 1998 and 2006, Göran Persson’s government organized cooperation with MP and V.

But, no coalition has not been with the Social Democrats since Government cooperation with the Centre Party between 1951 and in 1957.

3rd This is the first Green Party government takes responsibility and gets ministerial posts. The party collaborated admittedly with S around the turn and had staff on several ministry. But the minister did not become ecologist groups.

4th This is the first time a laborer becomes prime minister of Sweden. It is also the first time someone with a background in LO gets. Stefan Löfven was working as a welder at Hagglunds in Örnsköldsvik, but later made a union career in IF Metall, where he ended up as chairman.

5th The government rests on a very narrow base in parliament. Together scraped the Social Democrats and the Green Party up 38 percent of the electorate.

It is the most fragile coalition Sweden had since the C and FP-government Thorbjorn Fälldin (C) led from 1981 to 1982 which was supported by 28.7 percent of voters.

The S-government sat 1998-2002 had admittedly only supported by 36.4 percent of voters. But it was a one-party government that had formalized cooperation on the budget with two other parties.

6th It is also unusual that the government agent before he acceded to promise to take into account the opposition when budget designed. But the news gave Stefan Löfven after the visit of the President today. When asked how the Alliance’s new joint budget motion affects the content of the budget accounted Löfven as follows:

– There is no need to unnecessarily go into confrontation with other parties.

It means Löfven realize how dependent he will be of assistance also from the bourgeois parties to survive as prime minister.

7. It happens rarely or never lose two parties form the government. The Social Democrats certainly increased by 0.35 percentage points, but ended up four percentage points below its target of 35 percent. Green Party fell to his own great surprise, by 0.45 percentage points.

8. It has never happened before that the Prime Minister never sat in parliament. For Löfven gets so that he takes his parliamentary seat in the claim on Monday and leave on Friday, if the agreed planning holds.

9th That is also the prime minister’s principal minister, finance minister candidate Magdalena Andersson, never sat in parliament is also a rarity. Anders Borg has certainly never been a Member of Parliament but the manager Fredrik Reinfeldt had been sitting there for fifteen years, when he became Prime Minister.