Sweden's Coalition Collapse: The Political Crisis Explained - TLDR News
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This week Sweden has been going through major political issues, with the governing coalition falling apart and few solutions on the table. So in this video, we wind back the clock, explain how Sweden ended up in this situation & what the future holds for the nordic nation.
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As a Swede, having your government collapse and the country go into a political crisis is totally worth it, if we get a TLDR video on it.
Htuy
@Efren Cruz is
@Efren Cruz you
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@Efren Cruz No
To be fair, almost all Swedish parties want to keep the Swedish Krona over the Euro.
yessir
Yeah, this isn't even debated anymore. We had an election about this question, and the Krona won.
Which is bad
@@euroboy6958 Thank God! The Euro zone is a disaster!
Which is a good idea of course. After all, even if the euro zone proved to be a successful economic initiative, it is still unwise to have a foreign central bank printing your currency as it gives the country in question overwhelming influence over you. Just like the French with their neo colonial relationship with those west African nations.
THEY SHOULD ELECT THE GUY WHO RUNS IKEA… HE’S GREAT AT ASSEMBLING CABINETS.
XD
*budum tish*
No mate, he would get it 99% right, only to have an extra, incompatible and odd-looking unit left over and have to start again. Either that, or his drawers would come loose.
The IKEA guy, Ingvar Kamprad (IK in IKEA), died in 2018. He won't make a great leader at this point.
I’m just copying the comment from the end of the video lmao
I read alot of news about Sweden and I always find it hilarious when other countries media talk about us because they a lot of times have no idea what they are talking about and get a lot of things wrong. This is geniunly among the first times I see this accurate information about our current situation
The same applies to Swedes talking about other countries. So frustrating !
Just a note from a swede here. You at least once used "SD" to denote Socialdemocrats, in Sweden "SD" is used for Sweden democratic party while "S" is used for the social democrats.
Would be disastrous and hilarious after election if the ballots made that mistake. How did the sweden democrats get 38% of the vote??? 😋
@@user-nf9xc7ww7m Neither of those parties are getting anywhere close to that. The days of the Social Democrats getting numbers like that are gone, and they are the only party that used to. More likely S will get around 25 and SD around 20.
@@Theorimlig S is nowhere near of what they used to be, also they were the ones to institute forced sterilization and race ethics. THough, they are slowly creeping back towards that dark history of theirs.
Sweden Democratic party haha You mean *Sweden Democrats* the party that isn't democratic *at all*
@@tmpcox what? How are the sweden democrats undemocratic?
Nice seeing a non Swedish channel do a Swedish politics videos
Yeah a British man doing a Swedish politics video, which I found this very interesting (I'm not a Swede btw).
@Efren Cruz Ok thx for the recommendation
I am Italian and I find it prodoundly interesting knowing a bit more about our fellow Europeans up North. What I do not understand is why the whole of the EU cannot find a common policy about immigration since we all seem to have problems with the way it is being handled now.
This channel is literally called TLDR News "EU"
@Efren Cruz if i remember correctly acts17 is the christian american guy who challenge muslim and islam right.
how swedes reacted to the government collapsing: “oh damn, anyways who wants fika?”
that's actually true haha most people don't seem to care
True, we don't really talk about it lol
Not from my experience. Politics around my area is like a way of living. You can't escape the topic
Well...we just came out of a crisis and if something happens we have showed before that we can get together to make decissions. This isn't the first time this happened. Early 1980s we had a government fall over the nuclear power question. We did fine then and will do fine now. During the cold war we built a structure that can stand being without a government for a long time.
Yeah no one seems to care except the news stations that report on it every other second
Here in Sweden I barely even notice this ”crisis”
Har du levt under en sten?
@@emilnystedt hur har den påverkat ditt liv? Förutom nyhetsflödet eller sociala medier.
@@hxmr Det är väl rätt självklart att det inte får konkreta efterverkningar i samhället på en vecka men en långvarig politisk lamslagning hade ju fått seriösa konsekvenser. ”Barely even notice” - nej det är väl självklart att man inte märker något annat än det som skrivs i media, ska hela jorden gå under några dagar efter regeringen blivit fälld eller? Men det skrivs otroligt mycket om det i media och är man vuxen i Sverige missar man inte en sån sak.
@@emilnystedt Så du fattar alltså vad Kim skriver om men känner ändå att du måste pika han?
Some are in denial of the big increase in gun crimes, murders, bombings, illegal drugs, illegal firearms since immigration started. Others are voting for the anti-immigration party. That is is why there is such a split.
I had hopes that TDLR would cover this topic but I never thought you'd actually take the time and effort to make a video with this amount of depth about Sweden. Good job!
Håller med 👍
I agree. The only real complaint I have is them not mentioning the disbandment of The Alliance. Besides that it was really well done!
I must concur. Well done! I think - being s citizen of a small country - we are not often spoiled with such pin-point accuracy.
Same!
I have a question for you swedes here. Is the growth of Sverigedemokraterna of any worry to the general public?
3:22 When you cover Swedish politics in the future, you should bear in mind that SD is always the Sweden Democrats, not the Social Democrats, the Social Democrats are S
Sweden is going down hill especially with no go zones
@@karankapoor2701 No go zones? I'm a Swede and I've never heard of any no go zones
@@huldanoren951 Malmö 😂😂
@@karankapoor2701 Source please?
@@huldanoren951 Because they're bullshit. The zones in question are the result of a police investigation into what areas they should patrol more to be more efficient, and that's it. Literally nothing about them is "no-go"
You forgot to mention that the January agreement only was signed by the Greens, Socialdemocrates, Center party and the Liberals. The agreement also explicitly stated that the Left party was excluded from any influence.
i also can't find a single source that says that the green party said they weren't cool with free rents back in 2018, which the host says at 6:00
@@eroorefulufoo6625 he confused the left with the greens..
Yeah it was Vänsterpartiet opposing removing rent controls the entire time and Centerpartiet's support for the government was conditional on excluding them (V) from political influence. Greens didn't really have much to do with it. It's the Left who were honest about their intentions from the very beginning and Center/S acting in bad faith...
It was a horrible antidemocratic deal
Two things: The main reason for other parties not to want to cooperate with Sweden Democrats is not that they are anti-muslim but anti-immigration. They are indeed both but the latter is the main reason. Also, three parties are now willing to cooperate with them: Kristdemokraterna, Moderaterna and Liberalerna.
100% true
Well looks like you will have to bring a zero tolerance immigration law if you want to pass laws or make a goverment
@@dawitgirma8012 that would be insane because so much of immigration is working immigration, while asylum seekers also is a big number they are not too far from eachother.
Sweden: "Oh no! A government crisis during the pandemic! This is horrible!"
Italy: "First time?"
Belgium: "No government no problem."
Finland say hi too
The U.S. : Welcome to the club
Argentina: You guys get out of those?
That's what the civil service is for. They actually run the country.
As a person living in Sweden, I'm glad you did enough research to understand why there's been problems forming majorities, and pronounced Löfven's name correctly! But there's a very significant error here: the Left Party was never a party to the January agreement, and said since the beginning that it would bring down the government if rent controls (or employment law) was changed.
@Efren Cruz huh
Sweden's only had two majority governments, ever. It's much more rare than people think.
@@CriticalRoleHighlights Yeah S has usually ruled with a very strong minority and horsetraded with minor parties in single issues. It's gonerally worked for them until after 100+ years of that the opposition wisened up somewhat and made a coalition to oppose them.
As a Finnish person I'm interested in knowing why you have so many bomb attacks and car burnings each year? I used to think that Sweden was a peaceful country.
@@Elldallan I guess it's kind of that, but I think the main thing is that we now have three big parties instead of two (whether you like it or not, it's true). So you can't expect just one of those three to be able to form a stable government. In this new political climate moving forward, you are always going to need two out of those three parties to work together to form a government.
3:21 The social Democrats are often shortened to simply S. SD is the shortening of the Sweden Democrats
"Historically, Sweden has been ruled by the Alliance, or the Horde, until the Burning Crusade appeared.."
Jag antar sossarna är horde då
Ja, men det är lite kul att tänka sig Sverige som faktioner i WoW :p
@@Johan87577 Exakt så är det. Stefan är den manliga Sylvannas windrunner aka Stefan Löfrunner. Jimmy Åkesson är Arthas the litch king och din mamma är en mount man rider på OOOOOH NO did I just say that? Yes I did!!
xD
@@arashjamali4357 cringe
@@arashjamali4357 😂
Great video you guys just missed a small detail: the left party was never part of the January agreement. The agreement even said that the left party shouldn't be given influence.
i also can't find a single source that says that the green party said they weren't cool with free rents back in 2018, which the host says at 6:00
@@eroorefulufoo6625 I think they mistook them with the Left Party.
You could say that they got an informal power, if they are not listen to, they can bring down the government (which they did). They did also before that budget negotiate with S+MP.
As Bram pointed out, there was an explicit part in the January agreement to keep the left out of influence.
And also, it was the left - not the greens - that from the start said that if the remove rent control plans go forward, they would vote against the government.
So, mistake in the (otherwise very good) video and that’s why you could not find a source about the greens on this.
Yes when they talk about anti establishment parties the left party is the most anti establishment with SD behind them
"It started to get complicated. Entered a Right-wing Nationalist party..."
Well shit, here we go again.
Boogaloo like it’s the 1930s
It's funny to be that they keep getting called far right when they oppose right wing ideas of completely free market. A more accurate description is to call them an economically centrist nationalist party.
@Konto Sd was started by a Waffen SS member.
@@Axolotls_out "right wing ideas of completely free market"
The far right rarely supports a completely free market. But this is exactly where the basic left right spectrum fails.
Very few right wing parties support a completely free market nor is "the right" generally defined by "wants free market". If anything it is the opposite and the actual neoclassist parties are considered centrist.
@Konto you know Sd was literally founded by Swedish nazis
Did he say Steffe was a good negotiator? laughs in swedish
parroting steffes resume-PR no doubt. "Previously a big shot in IF Metall as a negotiator"
He would do anything he can to keep S in power. Does not care if it is good for Sweden but if it keeps S in power.
Will kiss any ass that will benifit him. Else he threaten with election but others cave and dont call his bluff.
@@Grimenir so... You're saying he's a sosse
@@Grimenir When did he threaten with election ??????
He is a useless leader and he is leading the country towards disaster. But when it comes to negotiation between parties, he always comes on top. Credit is given where credit is due. He still sucks though.
Thanks for this, you guys explain things with such clarity.
IMO like many center-left or centralist parties in Europe, the issue is Europeans are fed-up with mass immigration, too much too soon and especially difficult on groups with cultures that don't fit easily, or at all, with liberal European values. Likewise the neo-liberal model of capitalism has taken it's toll.
centralist- you mean centrist?
Also, fortunately, the social democrats are their own thing and not just 'centre-left'
Though indeed there is some pasokification going on
I think it's nice that the advertising has been limited, gets us to the topic quicker
Sarcasm I hope
@@zachgeldenhuis no I'm being genuine
@@kevink7529 I mean, they do have to have some sort of income to keep doing this :/
Just get ublock origins plugin for your browser...
I just immediately skip to 1:30 so I didn't even notice.
3:14
The party shortening for the Social democrat and green budget would be S-Green, in Sweden SD is short for the Swedish democrats instead.
Also at 0:37, it is only in recent history that the red green block has ruled, prior to the 2000s, the social democrats mostly formed a government on their own when in power, either having majority by themself or being supported by the left party.
TLDR's comment section is so informative, thanks.
Think they ruled for 40+ years alone or something right? The folkhemmet building?
@@AleeeeexS Yes, the good old years, when sossesweden was built.
Sweden Democrats not Swedish Democrats.
Thanks for information.
That was the best explanation of Swedish politics I have heard ever.
Apart from that it missed a vital part about the Left Party being excluded while its support was vital and required.
Apart from when they called Löfven "a very good negotiator"
Wow, had no idea this was going on! Thanks for informing an interested Aussie!
I never knew how similar The Swedish and German political landscape are
Dutch too
It is the zeitgeist
@thomas oconnor Yeah, most people who understand the policy know that it would be like pouring gasoline on our dumpster fire of a housing market.
Most people voting for it arent renters, but home-owners.
@thomas oconnor Oh, it's people as young as like 25 doing that. Its just a class divide at this point. People that talk about skyrocketing prizes in housing in terms of having a "housing career".
This is all inflated by incredibly low rates of interest and little tax on capital gains.
@thomas oconnor If I'm understanding you correctly you would suggest that we vote for the Left party which is good news to me because that's what I'm planning to :)
One big part of why the centre right parties don’t want to work with the Sweden democrats is because the centre right parties (C and L) are extremely (at least by Swedish standards) laissez faire, while the Sweden democrats are more so pro government intervention and control in the economy. This is one reason why the left party and the SD have occasionally worked together, because on some points, especially economically they agree. Another thing is that the moderates and KD have similar enough social views to work with the SD (the moderates and SD are anti immigration for instance, and want to clamp down on people moving here just to get welfare with no plans of integrating into society or getting jobs, KD and SD are both socially conservative), despite different economic views, but the centre right parties aren’t, since they’re some of the most pro immigration parties we have beside the greens and left party, and they’re generally socially progressive. The centre party have already said they will not support a “right wing nationalist” government, but then again, their leader said she’d rather eat her own shoe than work with the left party and then started working with the left party, so we’ll see.
Interesting analysis. Populist parties usually get placed at the right of a spectrum when the real political image they form is that of a triangle.
Populists are usually very conservative when it comes to society but they are usually against the free-market as well because many of their voters belong to the less affluent population.
@@idraote I’d say the Sweden democrats are proper conservatives, but they are old school conservatives and somewhat paternalistic as opposed to the more mainstream neo-cons in the KD. The moderates aren’t really conservatives per se, they are somewhat progressive socially speaking, and very liberal economically speaking, they want to clamp down on immigration for economic reasons primarily. they define themselves as liberal-conservatives. Anyway yes I agree that the traditional “left-right” view of politics breaks down when you take into account populist parties, regardless if the populist parties are right or left wing.
what about KD and M? i thought they had a more "small government" and more liberal economic policy too? could they find common ground with C in economic policies?
@@Lbvg yes they are more “small government” although that isn’t a term used outside the US really. While the mainstream right wing parties (M and KD) are more similar to the centrist parties (L and C) than the Sweden democrats, the centrist parties refuse to work with SD, while M and KD don’t rule it out. That’s why they don’t work together even though they agree on almost all economic policies, and only really disagree on immigration for C and schools for L. The mainstream right wing parties don’t have enough votes to make a government without SD, and the centrist right wing parties would rather work with the SocDems than give SD any influence.
@@idraote Nordic anti immigration parties are typically center left on a lot of social issues and support the welfare state. Culturally they are conservative. A lot the populist parties voters are working class and rural. Many of them used to vote for the social democrats or center right parties.
It's called a democracy. You listen to your voters. Not ignore them
As a Swed i would say This is a surprisingly good summary of what is going on.
what is a sweden
Me, an Italian: First time?
Infatti, questa è roba che succede tutti i giorni
Yep
Ciò che non ti uccide ti fortifica
Sweden:
UK: "coalition governments don't work - we couldn't possibly imagine yet another one. LibDem&Labour, LibDem&Tory or SNP&Labour - what a stretch, could you imagine???"
Confidence and supply agreeements have happened before, as well in some US states.
It says more about English (as in language) politics than anything else. We have a tendency of voting in narcissistic politicians that will simply vote something down because they are opposition and that’s what opposition does.
Meanwhile American politics can’t even handle 2 parties
This video demonstrates just one of the shortcomings of coalition government.
That isn't to say that majority government isn't without it's drawbacks, no government is perfect.
But I'd rather take a clear, affirmative majority government, with a clear mandate and the power to enact policy without it being discussed by committee, than the inevitable descent into bickering, backroom dealings and watered down intent, that comes from. Successive coalition governments.
That's not to even mention, how anti establishment, fringe parties can benefit from the less coherent governance of weak coalitions.
Well it didn’t work in Sweden, did it?
Clear, brief and absolutely beautifully produced. Love your work. Keep it up. Cheers.
Thanks for covering this :D
Well-researched and succinct. The animations really help non-swedes understand all the twists and turns as well, I think.
IT ISNT AS THE SWEDISH DEMOCRATS ARE NOT RIGHT WING, they are a nationalist/racist party who mainly vote for the LEFT and work mostly with the Social Democrats
@@billjane5522 WTH are you talking about? Hos is this a valid comment on my comment, you dolt?
@@billjane5522 the sweden democrats are barely even nationalist anymore, now they stand for interigration like all other parties, a temporary asylum stop just for some extra stability, please, learn wtf you are talking about.
Btw this comes from one of those nationalists that you call racist just because we think different.
Very well explained and as always, super interesting to follow, even as a Swede myself!
Speciellt nu när vår politik faktiskt är åtminstone lite intressant
As a Canadian this is really interesting and informative. I was wondering though, is the rise of the Swedish democratic party a result of backlash to the migrant crisis in Europe and Sweden?
@@billnye4213 I think so. Many far-right parties all throughout the continent have gained ever more support since the crisis.
@@huldanoren951 bättre att politik är tråkigt än ha "rolig" politik som usa
@@huldanoren951 Haha, "far-right".
I'm 50 today and fled to Thailand from Stockholm 10 years ago. I've never regretted that. I love my Swedish brothers and sisters but... I'm not smart enough to figure out what the hell is wrong but something has changed so fundamentally that I can't stand to be there any more. And I'm NOT talking immigration. Have a lot of good friends who's immigrants. Hardworking, loyal and honest people. No, there's something else going on. Have a good education, worked since 1986,not a bad life in Sweden but I get a knot in my stomach thinking about Sweden
This must have been difficult to research, but it was interesting to see the sequence of events.
One thing to note is that KD-M- and SD basically have an unspoken agreement that come the next election, if those 3 parties get enough votes they would form a government.
So actually, in this situation, it isn’t the sweden democrats blocking a government being set up, it’s the centre party. Who don’t like cooperating with either SD or The left party, although they are less against working with the left party.
What will almost definitely happen is that C will back down on rent controls in exchange for concessions on other fronts, which will basically be a win for them anyways because scrapping rent controls weren’t a big part of their campaign anyways and now they have the leverage since the PM has to quickly appease both them and the left party to form a government.
Why would the centre party cooperate with a party that is pretty much the opposite to them on every issue? They aid they wouldn't and they are doing what they promised those of us who voted for them.
Funny how people like you never point out the moderates and the social democrats could easily form a stable government. Despite these being much more similar in their actual politics than C and SD. Why are S and M allowed to be arch enemies while C and SD not?
And C already backed down on abolishing rent control, supposedly in exchange for the left behaving for the remaining year until the next election.
@@DaDunge C has already backed on rent controls = supporting V political ambitions. And if you trust Annie Lööf on anything she says you deserve being lied to.
@@DaDunge A coalition between S and M would be the quickest way of making SD the biggest party (by far).
@@DaDunge En röst på C har vart en röst på vänstern/ sossarna i snart 100 år. De går till val som ett borgerligt parti och viker sig sedan alltid.
Fantastic to see you cover this!
Important to note that market rents are incredibly unpopular in Sweden according to polling, and no party, even those in favor of market rents, have majority support for the policy from its voters.
I’m from Sweden. This video pictures the situation very well. (I really thought it was not possible to do that) Very good work.
I was hoping for you to make a video about this ever since monday, really appreciate the covering of this topic.
Glad midsommar förresten
Glad midsommar till dig med 🎉❤❤
Glad midsommar kära medborgare
Glad midsommar
Glad midsommar :D
Glad Midsommar (lite sent kanske)!
Vi tar oss igenom detta tillsammans som ett enat folk, vad som än händer!
Really interesting, thanks for the details.
The government for 8 years:
"WE WILL NOT! GIVE SD INFFLUENCE!!"
The government for 8 years:
*Proceed to make everything about SD and adopt SD talking points.*
It's all a joke and if the parties actually acted like adults, we'd all be better off.
The government is so incredibly incompetent and ignorant. It's like they've shut themselves into an echo-chamber and refuse to see the reality of Sweden today, and they're going to keep losing voters as long as they stay in there.
@@vincentohlander they shove themselves into a corner. x)
@@vincentohlander Don't think most people in sweden actually knows what the reality in sweden is at all.. Media refuse to report on problems that they created so it just keep growing and growing until our system collapse and nobody wants to take responsibility.. Can't even put people in prison because they are all over capacity same with all of the other systems and elderly collect recycling to survive..
@@vincentohlander wdym
@@lucaswallo8127 They keep insisting that there aren't any problems in sweden. The Left Party is pushing bills for even more generous immigration laws..
Quite interesting . Thanks for the coverage.
Huh, you know, Ive always thought you guys seemed to do your research quite well, but watching this video *and* being swedish really confirmed this to me.
Well done!
Du skojar. De kallade S för SD och klantar sig med detaljer hela himla tiden
@@whydoineedausername1386 Du kan ju göra en lika dan video om Belgiens politiska system och se om du lyckas komma undan utan att belgier rättar dig. SverigeDemokraterna och SocialDemokraterna är en lätt tabbe att missa, och en irrelevant sådan med tanke på att han hade bild på partierna så alla med ögon förstår ändå.
Är ju en massa fel. V var ej med i jöken. Det var de, inte MP som släppte fram regeringen trots punkterna om LAS och hyrorna, inte MP (som ju satt i regeringen).
@thomas oconnor interesting, will need to look into that. I’m basically for market rents, but the problem here in Sweden is almost a century of rent control. The housing crisis is so bad that it would be almost impossible to introduce.
@@miderwr9363 Du kan göra en video om när min svettiga röv landar på ditt ansikte, så pungen lägger sig över dina ögonhålor och du inte kan se ett ynka piss, hur låter det?
Here in Finland, we're in a very similar situation though the current government is quite stable. We have a the True Finns party who deny the traditional blocks majorities while no party wants to coalition with them.
In 2015 they were part of a coalition, though when the party gained actual polititical power they fell into internal disputes and split in two, the more moderate members forming a new party that quickly disintegrated in the next election and the remaining party becoming even more anti-establishment.
I believe these type of parties in general aren't capable of acting in government, their populatity relying on the ability to critizice the government without needing to stick their own head out on decision making.
While several people are clustered around a car's open hood, trying to fix the engine, they're the guy standing by with a sledgehammer yelling 'let me have a good whack at it!' and the onlookers like him, granted he doesn't actually get to do it.
That has also been the case here in Denmark, with the Danish Peoples Party falling almost completely apart in 2019, following four years where they supported a liberal-conservative government that went against what they themselves believed in, had corruption scandals peaking out from below, pushed policies that proved to only benefit hometowns of their MP's, and had smaller more polarised parties pop up and steal parts of their support once the election in 2019 finally came around.
As a finn I second this. It seems that the way our democracy is intended to function is incompatible with a party wanting to change the status quo radically gaining popularity. The Finns Party is a classic example of populism where the voters are people who generally don't follow politics enough to understand that a lot of their talking points (like "Our government is ineffective and not doing anything") is because they themselves deny the citizens a working government by being a party that no one wants to work with, and with good reason.
I really don't know what could resolve this, it does seem that this is democracy at work showing us that the other parties have to be able to come to some concessions or else the Finns Party will just keep growing and the cycle doesn't stop.
Yes but for that to happen the parties who go into a coalition with them must be dependable as strong democratic counterweights and i don't trust the christian democrats to do that today.
I dont think that the comparason between true finns and SD is a good one since SD has WAY more actual policies and opinions that squareley align with KD or M and they arent as anti establishment as true finns, rather they are pretty invested in co operating with the center-right parties and push through legislation that isnt nearly as extreme as their ideal legislation. Also a party being young and new doesnt immidiatley make them anti establishment. A lot of older parties will paint them as such but its just not true its just that old parties will always favor old parties and discourage new ones since they dont want more competition.
@@sim00n99 SD had a social democratic platform based on the folkhemmet idea up until the 2018 election. Most of their voters came from the social democrats. It they actually went in coalition with the Moderates those voters would leave them like rats from a sinking ship.
This is quite well made. Good job TLDR News.
Excellent video! Subbed!
The initial single axis political spectrum is very misleading, especially since I remember you had a much better two axis spectrum when speaking about dutch politics.
He's getting lazier
Yeah the moderates and the social democrats are actually quite close on most issues. They're both anti immigration parties for an example. The centre party is the party who is furthest from the status quo these days.
@@DaDunge How ironic.
@@DaDunge I would definetely describe the Sweden Democrats followed by the left party as the ones most opposed to the status quo.
@@Axolotls_out Not even close. Both the Sweden Democrats Moderates and Social democrats have about the same policies, the difference is that the Sweden democrats have very weird people representing their party.
Woe, a smidge confusing as an American but, it's kind of cool to see different sides of government trying to make a working coalition. It doesn't happen that often here.
It's because we have proportional representation. The basic concept of this has happened every election since the social democrats stopped getting their own majority in the 70s.
I don't know.. Coalitions I like more, since you have to work with your opponents, but it's still pretty chaotic, like in the video. I agree though, a binary choice like Dem-GOP makes co-operation harder, and people just demonize the other side.
@@HungTran-gz5em Chaotic, but significantly better than the US' "lesser of two evils" system.
@@GTA5Player1
You should read about Vermont's Progressive Party.
@@IkeOkerekeNews What about it?
The Sweden Democrats are the future of Sweden. The more they resist them the more powerful they will become.
wdym "the future"
There is a housing crisis for 2 reasons. Massive immigration and not enough building of new housing. The reason why there isn't much building is because decisions on land where you're allowed to build is decided by the local municipalities and they often make it hard and expensive to build. If you're a regular private citizen just looking to build your own house you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars just to get it approved and for them to get all the paperwork and such things in order. And since there is very limited land to build on, it's very expensive to buy land because the demand cant be met.
Government is the cause of this issue on every level but removing rent control before those other issues are resolved wont change anything for the better
Wow you actually brought up and explained how Sweden parliamentary system works (negative parliamentarianism). Well done! Most Swedes don't even understand how it works.
You´re wrong, most Swedes does understand, they just want it changed and to be better. First of all The party with the most votes should automatically be the government, however, in Sweden as you know there is blocköverskridande politik, which really should not be able to work vote wise. However if the party which wins election and therefor gains less than 51% of the votes, then they will possibly be unable to do the things it wants, which if it has at least 51%, or less than that yet other parties votes for its propositions, then they can. The right parties of Sweden do fights its wellbeing. And C is btw doing the right thing, while L is doing the wrong thing, even though their own party members wants to stick to the January agreement, yet the Party leader does not.
@@appleskum6520 "The party with the most votes should automatically be the government" That's utterly ridiculous and not how it works in any country on the planet. Parliament should vote for who gets to form the government. If one party has their own majority of course it will be them, otherwise you have to make some sort of agreement to gain enough support. Do you really think it would be democratic to automatically let S lead the country with about 30% of the votes? We sometimes hear politicians talk about "ignoring 30% of the electorate" (referring to V and SD) but that would instead be ignoring 70% of the electorate.
@@appleskum6520 as a fellow swede i disagree. Our democratic system is decent.
Even though I know you have a research team helping you it’s still super impressive how worldly and informed your perspectives are across such a wide range of topics in the geopolitical sphere. The last time I saw a Brit this diversified and hardworking was Simon from infographics. I love the moves you and your team are making keep up the great work!
Why the hell would you slobber over a person this way? It is not 'wordly and informed', it is stilted and not with that much detail.
World politics is not 'gepolitics', that is nowehre clsoe to what that word means.
@@mareksicinski3726 damn bro why are you so angry. I was just admiring the organization
@@andremaines Because I dislike it when ppl treat organizations like that
@@mareksicinski3726 How do possibly get mad at someone admiring and complimenting an organization for their work? It's so illogical, just shut up and move on.
@@Adam-zb9gi Nothing about it is 'illogical', and you have one big head if you think you are someone to tell people to 'shut up' or not.
Praise absolutely is not something that is good in itself.
I will respond whenever I think ti is appropriate, and it was.
As a swede I can tell you that, from my perspective at least, it was a clever move by the left party since most parties in sweden don't have any backbone and standing up for their beliefs. Most parties are constantly negotiating with others for agreements that give them power, even if that means trying to please everyone. So it's refreshing with someone who doesn't.
Thanks for a non-biased, informative video. To add to the list of things mixed up and/or left out: M and KD has publicly started seeking a government coalition supported by SD, which C and L has refused to take part in (at least until recently for L), which in turn effectively has demolished the Alliance. As L, with newly appointed leader Nyamko Sabuni, has started to lean more towards the M+KD+SD bloc, the January agreement has started to look more and more as a non-viable option. C however is so far keeping a strong stance in not giving SD any influence in a government. Time will tell what happens next...
Yes, definatly! It is quiet unlikely that considering how the political situation is now, that C will cooperate with SD. On the other hand, remember how L was 100% against SD in any way shape or form during the Björklund era? Now they have changed. They were extremely opposed and said that they would not cooperate at all with neither SD or V, but look what is happening now. Maybe we will have a Norway situation where C will be a part of the government but stop many SD propsals? I doubt that another "överenskommelse" (insert month) will not be very popular among the population. What do you think?
I think this might be TLDRs best and clearest explainer video I’ve seen so far. Props to the team
No theý just missed to say that SD was founded by neo nazis..
This has been happening in Belgium for quite some time with the Vlaams Belang party. Currently polling to be the biggest party in politics but no one wanting to work with them.
As a Belgian living in Sweden (10 years now) it is beyond frustrating to see history repeat itself.
@@Jef_Vermassen It's the mainstream politicians doing that to themselves. If they would just work with those far right parties once, these parties wouldn't get as much votes the next time.
Look at the social democrats in Denmark. That is how you run a country. Folkepartiet will never become big again. Our stupid politicians are destroying Sweden. Sweden Democrats should get a chance of ruling the country.
All I got from this is that whoever is running the Swedish Democrats are playing some 4D chess and that every other party sucks at “Realpolitiks.”
Åkesson is a smart man
It doesent hurt that all of the other parties promise to do lots of stuff but never do it
Very important note is they are NOT anti immigrants. People call them a nazi party because they wants better controll on who will enter Sweden.
@@mrex3553 Yeah, I figured as much. Something I’ve learned over the last few years is that “anti-immigration” very rarely actually means “anti immigration”, but instead means “more restrictive immigration.”
@@mrex3553 They have said they want to send more people who already live in Sweden back to their countries of origin. So it's not just about controlling who gets in (which basically all political parties are for) but also decreasing the amount of people with a foreign background that may already have settled in Sweden.
Excellent video. Thanks!
How is SWEDEN having a housing crisis they have like just 10 million people and literally have most of the good land in the Scandinavian peninsula.
Partially because people are moving out at like 19
Not enough houses have been built during the time Sweden's population has been growing and urbanizing quickly.
It's that we don't have enough flats being built, and especially not rentable flats. Although, we seem to have started to build more.
well most of the land is like cold ass forest where no one live?
@@amandapanda7416 To where?! Sweden is one of the best countries in the world
This is what happens when politicians dont listen. Irrespective of whether you agree with their (Swedish Democrats) views or not, ignoring them, only makes their voice stronger, hence why Trump got into power, because he listened to those that others chose to ignore for decades.
This is why Le Pen is doing well in France, this pattern is repeating itself across the world.
Good analysis
I don't know if listening to a far right wing nationalist party is a great thing, hasn't been that great in the past.
@@lzrrrrr3370 That why u need to work with them, not ignoring them thus making them stronger.
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
@@lzrrrrr3370 correct but ignoring them is also not a good thing to do. After all, everyone is entitled to their viewpoint.
And why the Conservative Party in the UK is taken over by their hard-liners.
So Swedish democrats is the only good party there
Gd one!
Swedens politics is like the slow boiling frog... Keep SD out by constructing strange coalitions... Strange coalitions leeds to more SD votes.... Create even stranger coalitions that discourages even more people to vote for these parties instead going straight to SD. *Loop*
And when parties like the Social Democrats insult those who vote for SD, and call them racists, they're not realising that the majority of SD's voters come from them...
@@vincentohlander Might want to check that again, sir
Yup that's right lol
Yeah in the end Sd becomes the new s at 45% of the votes
Just fricking work together instead of total exclusivity.....
Yes, you may not like it, but the people have voted and they are a % of influence.
Now that's what we call a pro gamer move
Thanks for doing a video on our country TLDR
Things like these should never be watered down.
And the bread and spectacle industry goes on!
Good video! Nice and impartial, and overall well explained.
As a Swede, my take is that sooner or later the right will form a government with the support of SD. Even now the Moderates, Christian Democrats, Liberals and Sweden Democrats have 174 out of the 175 seats needed. The question is how slowly and painfully the left will lose power. Like you mentioned, the same government might very well be elected again by parliament, but it definitely won't survive the 2022 elections.
The problem is that there are certain problems in Sweden that have to do with immigration: increasing crime rates, segregation, a ever larger percentage of people dependant on welfare, and the social democrats simply cannot solve them. Firstly, they must cooperate with the greens, left and center party that all want continued high immigration and oppose most proposed solutions to said problems, and secondly the social democrats have spent so much time and political capital arguing that the Sweden Democrats are basically Hitler that they could never cooperate. Now I'm in no way saying that the Sweden Democrats are especially good or have all the solutions to Sweden's problems, but trying to keep them out of power by any means and ignoring the problems that they have actually identified correctly has really hurt the people's trust in the left generally and the social democrats specifically. I think we have got a long period of right wing governments ahead of us and the social democrats will have to change substantially if they don't want to go the way of PASOK.
The reason refugee immigration causes so many problems is that Sweden has neither an immigration policy nor an integration policy. You think that 40 years of receiving tens of thousands of refugees every year would alert somebody, but no, not the people who has actually gotten a chance of forming a government in those 40 years. (I count the Israeli invasion of Lebanon 1982 as the starting point of this.) Compare with Canada, whch has grown proportionally more than Sweden since 1980, mainly through immigration. Canadian officials travel the refugee camps of the world and pick the raisins from the cake before any low educated, poor, PTSD-victims comes knocking on Canada's door. That is an active immigration policy. Kind of self-serving, but they avoid the problems associated with immigration in other countries.
I know Sweden had immigrants before 1982, but from 1945 to 1970 they were exclusively a boost to the Swedish work force. Even in the 1970s more immigration was related to work than to some kind of refugee status. And when you have a job waiting for you in the new country, it is MUCH easier to integrate.
Excellent ans accurate reporting of the Swedish parliamentary crises. Well done guys!
really nice explanation, thanks!
This video was very informative, thank you ! I live in Sweden and haven't kept up very well so this video was very much needed
The alliance is an old coalition, I wouldn’t bunch up L, C, KD, and M like that, we’re actually closer to a M, KD, SD coalition.
No we are not xddd
@@MidFlyer .. we’ll just have to wait and see won’t we? 😎
The Left Party has never been in government in my lifetime, they're not actually a part of the red-green coalition. Their politics obviously align more often with that bloc than with the Alliance, but the Social Democrats will not work with the Left unless they absolutely have to, which has been a source of frustration for Left Party politicians and voters for years.
Yes ever since the parties split
@@daseapickleofjustice7231 As they say on the actual far left; Socialdemokrati = Klassförräderi (Social Democracy = Class Treachery)
Super interesting in how different that is from Norway, since the Red-Greem coalition there often includes Socialist Left - Labour - Center to form a center-ledt government.
@@zefft.f4010 Stalin och Bolsjevikernas teori om social fascism bevisar klassförräderiet av socialdemokratin.
@@daseapickleofjustice7231 Drar mig från att hålla med bolsjevikerna, men de hade i alla fall början till en poäng där. Det går inte att uppnå socialism inom en kapitalistisk ram.
Thank you! Brilliantly explained. 👌
Watching this exactly at the time as Löfven steps down
Me being from Belgium: "So this your first ride?"
This was a good video and I think you covered everything. I'm a swede and I'm also big into politics so I give this video 10/10.
Damn, Sweden is doomed
Very well explanation
Interesting and well explained.
That a minority government would be ineffective in a Swedish context just isn’t accurate. We have a long tradition of minority governments and a jumping majority. The smallest government we have had was when Ola Ullsten was PM, controlling just 39 of 349 MPs. Though short lives they pushed through considerable reforms as a new curriculum.
Also the Left Party wasn’t a part of the January agreement. That agreement was between the government, The Center Party and the Liberals. In fact, the January agreement contains a writing of banning all kind of Left Party political influence. However the Left Party didn’t vote against the government in fear of getting a conservative government influenced by the far-right. This is possible since a government just need to be tolerated by the majority in the Swedish parliament and not have an active support of a majority. The Left Party however said in 2018 that they would allow the government to take office even though they wear excluded from the January agreement, but would lose confidence if they abolished rent control.
Just because minority governments in Sweden (or anywhere else for that matter) have been historically successful, that does not guarantee that they will ALWAYS be successful. So long as they can stay away from divisive policy areas, it's amazing how much they can get done, but sometimes they are forced to, either by member parties' manifesto commitments and/or external events that they can't ignore
@@talltroll7092 that is correct, however different political system is set up to deal with different problems. Seeing that since world war 2 Sweden has only had a majority government for around a third of that time, last time being 06-10, we are uniquely used to small governments, both in regards to how our system works but also culturally. The point made in this video, that minority governments are somehow inherently less stable than a majority, is at least in a Swedish context just not accurate. Our system doesn’t work that way, and our political history proves something else. I think it’s regrettable that ppl watching this video doesn’t get a god basic understanding of how politics works in Sweden, which also undermines their understanding of the crisis Sweden is going through.
Its not a crisis if parlamentary procedures function as intented ...
it wouldn't be as catchy title would it?
It is if it results in a government that can't govern. For most of 2017-19 the UK parliament continued running by established procedures, but it was soo tied up with internal party and ideological infighting that it pretty much ignored any current problems of the country and wasn't even able to make any decisions on the things it was endlessly thinking about. That was a political crisis.
It became a constitutional crisis when the Johnson government started ignoring parliamentary procedure and acting illegally.
Jsut because it´s working as intended doesn´t mean there isn´t a crisis.
@@XMysticHerox A minor hiccup, good thing they did something instead of letting the country go all to hell.
@thomas oconnor Im not sweden, Im Fachjargon
Great explanation!
tack så mycket, jag behövde detta.
Honestly we're doing fine even when we have no government in Sweden 😂 last time we had our election we had no government for weeks and weeks because they couldn't decide how to collaborate.
But we just kept going like normal, working like we should etc.
because parlament being a mess doesn't affect our strong local governments and government agencies
Fine? ( Im swede ) its far from fine when people are killing everyone each day
@@mrex3553 its true, I got killed 4 times yesterday - gets a bit tiresome
@@KittenCritters You will also learn the truth someday.
@@mrex3553 I'm also a Swede 😂 you're talking about the gang killing? Aka gang members killing gang members?
You did abit wrong with the acronyms for the Swedish parties. SD stands for the "Swedish Democrats" and just S stands for the "Social Democrats".
Very true.
@thomas oconnor I think you'll have to travel to all the corners of the Earth to search, and still, you won't find: someone who asked.
@thomas oconnor It’s a quip, basically saying “no one cares”.
fantastic video
That got complicated fast!
so Sweden democrats are like Finns Party in Finland?
both opposes immigration and both have growing support.
And like the UKIP in Britain, the National Rally in France, the Northern League in Italy, AfD in Germany, the Danish people's party in Denmark (who would've guessed?) and even the current ruling parties of Poland and Hungary.
Anti-immigration nationalist Eurosceptissist parties are on the ruse everywhere across Europe actually if you didn't notice.
@@bobing1752 hmm wonder why?
@@CJ-vi3jd go on and tell me
@@bobing1752 look what happend in germany just a few days ago. Vetlanda a few months ago. Or in france where they sliced of a head.
They let the isis in too Europa now inoccent people have to pay for it
Just everything is in a crisis isn't it?
This was pretty nuanced and informative
Hi, just to let you know, in Sweden we dont call the center-right parties the Alliance anymore, since that was more or less disbanded in either 2014 or 2018 (cant remember which)
Thank you! You guys explained it so much better than any other news media in Sweden and in a shorter time as well.
Good job!
@Efren Cruz hwat?
Judging from some of my Swedish friends' opinions - the Sweden Democrats are going to continue to gain more ground.
Yes, because they are more or less the only ones actually describing the reality of Sweden. Other political parties are utopian assholes who prefer the map instead of the terrain.
@dknd Opinion polls are notoriously unreliant when it comes to SD. We shall see what happens in the election.
@dknd dude they literally trippled in size polls smolls
@dknd Opinion polls are unreliable at best.
These opinion polls are not asked of a wide range of the population.
Did they poll a mixture of: young and old; men and women; native and immigrant; city and country?
Did they poll people in Malmo, Gothenburg, or just a rich area of Stockholm?
I'm not Swedish, but I have many Swedish friends here in the UK and 1 is a Communist, the others are supporting Sweden Democrats.
I don't believe they are racist, but realists.
The idealism that many parties in Sweden live by is lovely in theory, and on paper sounds like a utopia...but unfortunately, humanity isn't capable of utopian societies at the moment, so we have to report to pragmatism.
Helping those in desperate need is a noble task but blanket belief that all humans are good at heart is naive and dangerous.
Unfortunately, more than any other country in Europe, Sweden is experiencing - and serving as an example of - why that's a bad idea.
From the UK to Sweden, I hope things change for you there soon. More than anything I hope it's change for the best.
Don't swing too far in the other direction. :fingerscrossed:
@ 2010 called, they want their outdated political analysis back
That reminds me Belgium went for a couple of years without any government at all and that worked just fine
even improved the budget situation.
Politicians are always very spending happy to "show initiative". The ministries usually work better when they don't interfere and when earlier projects actually have time to gain a return on investment before they are scrapped.
Change the title and names of the parties and this video would suit Belgium perfectly!
I live in Sweden, I am from Canada this is a very helpful video, thank you :)
beginners ... in 73 years of the Italian Republic we have had 65 different governments. Italy the best
Haha, your political system to an outsider from Australia has indeed always seemed to be in a mess. Always waiting for the next coalition to collapse.
@@gustaaf1892 our system is a disaster. We had a scandal of corruption "tangentopoli" in the 90'. Now we have incompetent and corruption politicians. Sometimes our police arrest some politicians for connection with the Mafia. We see the other political systems especially the Nordic one or the commonwealth one a paradise haha.
I'm even more psyched now to catch up on my listening to "Radio Sweden på lätt svenska" (Radio Sweden in Easy Swedish) podcast. I'm up to the fall of 2019. I wish I did know more about the different parties.
This was great