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Post by account_disabled on Oct 26, 2023 10:38:53 GMT
Were no exception: in several European countries, including Germany, the once-thriving democratic socialism faced declining votes and an identity crisis. Sweden and the Crisis of Social Democracy in Europe On Monday, October 1, the Swedish government fell. It's a strange alliance, challenged by another strange alliance. The government is led by the Social Democrats, whose former right-wing trade union leader Stefan Löfven serves as prime minister. It includes the smallest parliamentary party, the environmental party Greens, and is based on confidence agreements with the country's two newest liberal groups: the Center Party and the photo editor Liberal Party. His majority in parliament also depends on votes from the Left Party, which withdrew its support a week ago and passed a no-confidence motion along with the three conservative moderates, the Sweden Democrats and the Christian Democrats. The Center and the Liberal Party abstained from the vote. Sweden's parliamentary system is based on proportional representation in multi-member constituencies, with the representation threshold set at the national level vote. There are currently eight political parties represented in Parliament. The explanation for the strange political game of recent weeks is a deadlock that neither the center-left, made up of social democrats, leftists and green parties, nor the traditional bourgeois bloc of moderates, centrists, Christian Democrats and liberals can reach. most.
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