Fälldin shaped the country we live in – Aftonbladet

There are not many politicians who have had the ability – and the given moment – to influence modern Sweden basically. And most of them have been the Social Democrats. A few have come from other parties. Thorbjorn Fälldin was undoubtedly a politician who made an impression. He co-shaped the political landscape and the Sweden we live with today.

Prelude to block policy

In Swedish politics, there is a before and after 19 September 1976. The can hardly overestimate the importance of Thorbjorn Fälldin the head of a bourgeois alliance managed to win a majority in parliament. 44 years of permanent social-democratic ruling left their mark, not least in the mind. The change of regime in 1976 changed the conditions of Swedish democracy. In many ways it was the tentative and rather stappliga prelude to the block policy now seems to be on the verge of falling apart. On the other, it can be said that the political course in many respects was fixed in the 1970s. The expansion of welfare systems continued during the bourgeois governments. The state pursued an active industrial policy, for example in shipbuilding, where it was not so good and in the steel industry where it went better.

The focus on markets and private solutions came later.

The environment was a profile issue

on an area put the Centre Party’s success in the 1970s are still traces in our political debate. With Fälldin Sweden got a politician who made the environment a profile issue. The memory of Thorbjorn Fälldin will of good and evil to be associated with resistance to nuclear power. After 1970, there is hardly any political strategist – except perhaps in the very Centre Party – which can ignore the environmental opinion.

emanated from everyday life

Many of the quotes that Fälldin left behind feels somewhat archaic today. They were convicted in Sweden, in a different political context. In the 1970s, dominated the popular movements Swedish politics, and Thorbjorn Fälldin was largely a movement politician. Center The movement was for real, and out of it grew the strength that brought Fälldin to the government. Despite his many years in Parliament and in the Cabinet Office maintained Thorbjorn Fälldin – just as, for example Gunnar String – a perspective that was based on the common man’s everyday life. And perhaps it is precisely this perspective he should primarily be remembered for.