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Emilia Bjuggren (S) becomes Stockholm's new finance commissioner and is known for her commitment to issues related to segregation and class differences, causing concern among the opposition for a leftward shift in the city's politics. #EmiliaBjuggren #Stockholm #SvenskPolitik (translated)

In her leader, Lisa Magnusson suggests that there is a double standard in public transport where gendered shouting is allowed while musicians like troubadour William Sundman Sääf are thrown out, raising questions about what disturbances are truly considered unacceptable in public spaces. #Kollektivtrafik #Stockholm #Musik (translated)

The waste representative wrote that MUCF, after information from Säpo about links to the Eritrean regime, demanded back just over one million tax kroner from the Eritrean National Association, but did not send an invoice for almost two years. According to the post, this only happened when Kvartal began to ask questions. The waste representative called it deeply concerning that journalists seemed to have a better grip on the agency's recovery efforts than MUCF itself, which according to the post distributed half a billion kronor a year. https://t.co/99ytHdRf5Q #Säpo #Eritrea #MUCF (translated)

Daniel Schatz wrote that MUCF, after information from Säpo about connections to the Eritrean regime, demanded back just over one million kronor from the Eritrean National Association. Almost two years later, the authority had still not sent any invoice, he claimed, and it was only when Kvartal started asking questions that the oversight was discovered. Schatz criticized the Tidö government for not abolishing the authority and described it as unforgivable. https://t.co/Q3eNOdNVMe #Sverige #politik #myndigheter (translated)

Carl G Nilsson (M) raises questions in his debate article about the Center Party's resistance to collaborating with the Sweden Democrats to create a bourgeois government, despite the party being able to accept support from the Left Party. #Centerpartiet #BorgerligRegering #Sverigedemokraterna (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson questioned after a discussion with Martin Ådahl whether there was any other party that the Center Party considered sufficiently acceptable. She wrote that C had tolerated the Social Democrats and the Green Party because they had previously agreed to govern with bourgeois economic policy so that C would not collaborate with the Sweden Democrats. At the same time, she argued, C had criticized S for its migration policy and rejected the Left Party despite V agreeing with C on the issue. Gabrielsson contrasted this with what she described as a contradiction in the Center Party's rhetoric on decency. She pointed to ministers from the Moderates whom she considered increasingly Trump-like and accused them of going after journalists and conducting negative campaigns, as well as statements from the KD leader, the right's talk of voters as voting cattle, and comments from Member of Parliament Lars Beckman (M) and Alice Teodorescu (KD), whom she described as conspiracy theorists. She wrote that Ådahl and C seemed to believe that the former alliance parties did not really support their current policy, but had been kidnapped by SD and deep down wanted to return to the era of Fredrik Reinfeldt. Gabrielsson argued that Ådahl and Magdalena Andersson seemed to think that the parties would return to the center when the Tidö cooperation ended. She called the view condescending and emphasized that the changes could also have been made deliberately and voluntarily. During the election campaign, Gabrielsson stated, she had spoken with a leading center-right politician from Stockholm about more people voting for SD in the area where she grew up. She recounted that she had highlighted material and social reasons for dissatisfaction and mentioned a neighbor who worked almost around the clock on his farm and cleared snow in half of Norrland during the winters. According to Gabrielsson, the center-right politician had responded that a difficult life did not excuse a vote for SD, as others with difficult lives did not vote for the party. Gabrielsson also relayed that her father, who grew up in Ockelbo, used to refer to C and the farmers as "the right aristocracy." On Tuesday, he had told her that he had closed the door on a DN Kultur journalist who wanted to discuss the family's background and life in the countryside and in the industrial town of Åmotsbruk. Her father had also criticized C as the worst party of the day and said he preferred the party when it was at least a farmers' party. Gabrielsson wrote that she had corrected him, but at the same time agreed that a party with 7 percent could be perceived as self-satisfied if it assumed that others would follow its line. #Centerpartiet #Sverige #politik (translated)

Carl Eos agreed with Jimmie Åkesson's reasoning in Expressen about the Sweden Democrats' role in cooperation with the center-right parties. Åkesson had written that the Sweden Democrats (SD) had been driving many reforms, but that the parties holding ministerial positions had received visibility when the reforms were implemented. He also pointed out that the cooperation had limited SD and asked why voters would choose the party over the Moderates if the center-right was perceived as good enough even on issues where SD had taken the lead. Eos wrote that the center-right parties had been able to showcase successes within SD's strong policy areas, while SD had not made corresponding advances in other areas. He argued that the parliamentary election in 2026 would largely be about issues where SD was weaker and, to a large extent, not about policy issues. Eos also noted that both Ulf Kristersson and Jimmie Åkesson had said that the time after Tidö had begun, and wrote that this would likely create discussion. https://t.co/JWjMHlH2Ri #Sverigedemokraterna #politiskdebatt #val2026 (translated)

Ledarsidorna.se wrote that a number of questions had been prepared for Cecilia Uddén in a live broadcast on Sveriges Radio Ekot. The sender claimed to have taken an interrogator training course during their training to become a non-commissioned officer and believed they could handle the question session. A live broadcast in prime time on SVT Nyheter was also suggested, with a challenge to the media to accept the offer. #svpol #journalistik #debatt #direktsändning (translated)

Ledarsidorna.se wrote that the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, had not been improvised. According to the site, exercises, weapon caches, and a tunnel system that later Israeli assessments estimated to be hundreds of kilometers long had been built up over at least a decade. The site questioned to what extent it could be substantiated that the work had been financed with aid and why the expansion was hardly visible in the news coverage from Gaza during the same period. Ledarsidorna.se specifically pointed out Sveriges Radio's foreign correspondent Cecilia Uddén and wrote that she had questions to answer. #svpol #Israel #Hamas #Gaza (translated)

The Centre Party has appointed Anders Ådahl as chairman of the committee on business and Ulrika Heie as vice chairman of the transport committee, where both are expected to advocate for issues related to Swedish competitiveness and infrastructure. #Centerpartiet #Näringsutskottet #Trafikutskottet (translated)

Ida Gabrielsson wrote that she had difficulty understanding Thand Ringqvist's argument on Agenda that the Left Party and the Center Party were far apart. She claimed that the Center Party was not particularly close to any of the other parties with Magdalena Andersson as the prime ministerial candidate in economic policy. According to Gabrielsson, the Center Party had chosen the same prime ministerial candidate as the red-green parties to avoid governing with the Sweden Democrats, but the choice also meant that the party would have less influence on its bourgeois economic policy. Gabrielsson wrote that she did not want to decide which side the Center Party should choose, but felt that the party should have thought through the consequences before going to the election on Andersson. She argued that the Center Party's actions risked blocking both possible government alternatives. Since the election result, according to her, meant that the four parties' mandates were needed to choose Andersson as prime minister, she believed that the parties had to compromise. She emphasized that the business community had not voted and that each voter had had a vote. She also wrote that most red-green voters wanted to see a government with the Social Democrats, the Left Party, and the Green Party, while the voters of the Tidö parties had other favorites. According to Gabrielsson, parties should not negotiate with mandates from voters who had voted for another government alternative, and she believed that the election result must be reflected in politics. The Left Party wanted to be part of the government, according to her, to be able to implement reforms and agreements. Gabrielsson wrote that it was difficult to understand why the Center Party opposed the Left Party in the government and claimed that the Center Party's content in a possible agreement should be respected on the same terms. #politiksverige #val2023 #demokrati (translated)