** The Swedish Election - Sep 9 **

The Swedish Election is being held on Sep 9.

The Parlament is being made up by:

The Social Democrats (S)
In the government. Traditionally the party that historically has had the ruling power. Often with it's own majority, but those days are over. A party that started on the left, but now like most parties has moved more to the middle.

The Green Party (MP)
In the government. Do not see themselves as a left or right-party, but are often considered to the in the middle with left leanings on social issues and such. These four years has been their first as a government party. There big thing this election has been our climate. 

The Left Party (V)
Was called "The Left Party Communists" up till the 80s, when the party was reformed. Opponents still use that to make cheap political points. Calls themselves "the only left party in Sweden" and has taken up the spot which The Social Democrats had historically before moving to the middle. Their big things this election has been - higher taxes for the rich and restrict companies possibilities to make profits off of private schools.

The Liberals (L)
Traditional swedish party. The big things this election has been, reform the school system to make it more strict, lower taxes on work and push how great the EU is.

The Center Party (C)
Formed to be a party for the farmers. Now pretty much the same party as The Liberals - but with a more open/hip approach to immigration, LGBT and such. 

The Moderates (S)
Swedens traditional right winged party. Moved to the middle in the 00s and stole a lot of voters from The Social Democrats and also held government (together with The Liberals, The Center Party and The Christians Democrates) for eight years. The big thing this election has been crime and stopping gang violence.

The Christian Democrats (KD)
A company similar to The Moderates, but sometimes a more shitty view on abortions and such shows up. The thing they have been talking about this election is to move the power over our healthcare from the counties to the state.  

The Swedish Democrats (SD)
A company with racist roots that lures people that has racist/bigoted views, that has grown to be the third/second largest part in Sweden since first getting into the parliament in 2010. Formed in the early 90s when a lot of immigrants from the Balkan came to Sweden. No other party want to in any way work with them (except for The Moderates and The Christian Democrats who seems to kind of wanting to, maybe, somehow). 



S and MP are in government (with support from L)

L, C, M and KD want to form a new government (they ruled together 2006-2014).

No one has been touching SD so far, instead working around them. But everything this election has been about them.



This was the election results in 2014:



(FI is The Feminist Iniative, a left party that was close to coming into parliament (you need 4 percent of the vote to do so). Benny Andersson of ABBA-fame famously helped them out with big economic contributions. They are a non-factor this election)


Here is the latest poll:


The Election is on Sunday.

Me personally, I'm voting for The Left Party, based on their environmental and animal rights views and their views on Folkhemmet (The peoples home); 

Sometimes referred to as "the Swedish Middle Way", folkhemmet was viewed as midway between capitalism and socialism. The base of the Folkhem vision is that the entire society ought to be like a small family, where everybody contributes, but also where everybody looks after one another. The Swedish Social Democrats' successes in the postwar period is often explained by the fact that the party managed to motivate major social reforms with the idea of the folkhem and the national family's joint endeavor

I voted for The Green Party when I was younger.

Wee.