What happened
Following the election, the Social Democrats, the Left Party, the Green Party, and the Center Party reached an agreement to secure a red-green majority in the Riksdag's committees. The Center Party now does not want to participate in any organized cooperation with the other parties. The Left Party's group leader Samuel Gonzalez Westling reacts strongly to the decision. He states that he is very surprised by the Center Party's stance.
Our analysis
While the government and the Sweden Democrats push through one tightening after another against new Swedes, the Center Party chooses to devote itself to prestige and internal boundaries. At the podiums, the party readily speaks of humanity and the importance of an open society. When concrete resistance is required in the rooms of the Riksdag, they refuse to even sit at the same table.
The political game is easy to understand, but the bill is paid by the country's new Swedes. Every split in the opposition allows stricter migration rules and diminished rights to be passed without unified resistance. The beneficiary is the Tidö cooperation, which can now govern knowing that its opponents are too busy defending their own turf to act together.
It is time to ask the Center Party directly: what is more important, making a stand against the Left Party or putting a stop to policies that shatter the security of a quarter of Sweden's population?
Explained
The Riksdag's committees are the working groups where members of parliament prepare all legislative proposals before the entire Riksdag makes a decision.