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Ida Gabrielsson argued that the government formation should be based on the fact that S, V, MP, and C had campaigned for a change of power and had Magdalena Andersson as a common candidate for prime minister. She wrote that C could not count in parties that did not support Andersson and at the same time demand influence based on their mandates. According to Gabrielsson, voters had given C 7 percent and V 8.4 percent, and V would not accept C pursuing right-wing policies with the support of V's mandate. Gabrielsson stated that C could seek support from Ulf Kristersson or try to get KD and L to switch sides. If that did not happen, C needed to negotiate with S, V, and MP to get a majority behind Andersson, according to her. She wrote that V was willing to compromise, but that the parties supporting a prime minister candidate must also be able to accept each other as a government basis. She criticized C’s growth proposals, including continued privatization of the Employment Service and permanent tax subsidies to cleaning companies and large restaurant chains. Gabrielsson claimed that the Economic Institute, the Fiscal Policy Council, and others had assessed the proposals as ineffective, expensive, and ineffective in creating jobs. She also wrote that the proposals would be financed through cuts to unemployment benefits and sick pay as well as cuts in welfare. Gabrielsson asserted that the most voters preferred a red-green government, followed by the Tidö alternative, while C's centrist alternative lagged far behind. She wrote that more people had voted for S, V, and MP than for the previous Alliance if SD was excluded. Finally, she urged C to first clarify its political direction and implied that the party needed to choose a side if it could not find a centrist solution. #Regering #Sverige #Politik (translated)

The opposition in Italy criticizes the recently approved amendment to the electoral law as a sham law, which they argue benefits Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing coalition by guaranteeing a majority in parliament for the alliance that receives over 42 percent of the votes. #Italien #Politik #GiorgiaMeloni (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)

If Russian President Vladimir Putin were to launch an attack against Europe that triggers NATO's collective defense clause, the alliance would be able to seal off Russia's access from St. Petersburg to the Gulf of Finland within a few hours, said Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna to the British newspaper The Times. #NATO #Venemaa #SoomeLaht (translated)

It should be an easy task for Norlén to assign the exploratory mission to Magdalena Andersson now, when the Social Democrats' own group leader has admitted that there is no new M–V alliance. The entire pretext for returning the assignment has thus fallen. Everyone understood at that time that it was a smokescreen. #politik #Sverige #Socialdemokraterna (translated)

The article discusses that the US Department of Defense is sidelining several key allies, including the Baltic states, from the NATO meeting next month, raising concerns about the alliance's unity and the special meetings taking place based on the preferences of the United States. #NATO #USA #kaitsepoliitika (translated)

Tänään HS antaa näkyvyyttä järjestörälssin yhdelle merkittävälle rälssipomolle, Suomen nuorisoala ry:n (ent. Allianssi ry) tj:lle. Hänen mielestään - tietenkin - on veronmaksajien tehtävä rahoittaa kansalaisjärjestöjä ja niiden harjoittamaa lobbausta. 1/6 https://t.co/J0TRssbeRP #nuoriso #järjestöt #lobbauksenetiketti

@magdandersson har låtit göra en rättelse i efterhand av intervjun i @politico. Men det hjälper föga. Hennes pressekreterare har godkänt citaten i ursprungsintervjun. Det godkännandet går inte att snacka bort i efterhand. Hade hon blivit felciterad på riktigt hade pressekreteraren fått sparken med omedelbar verkan. Så allvarligt är det. Och så har inte skett. Tvärtom har Magdalena Andersson historiskt uttryckt sig svajigt om Sveriges säkerhetspolitiska behov. Tvärtom har hennes och partiets svala engagemang för Sveriges direkta närområde en lång historia. Magdalena Andersson och Socialdemokraterna var tidigare motståndare till en svensk Nato-anslutning. Under våren 2022 svängde ståndpunkten snabbt men först efter Finlands beslut att gå med i alliansen. Anderssons linje ligger i praktiken identisk med hennes företrädare Stefan Löfvén. Löfvens uttalanden på en fredskonferens på Åland i början av april 2022 är talande. Där sade han att Nato inte är någon fredslösning och att han inte blivit överbevisad om att Sverige och Finland plötsligt skulle få en säkrare situation om Natogränsen drogs ”alledeles intill Ryssland i hela Europa”. Han tvivlade alltså på att medlemskap gav bättre skydd och pekade på risken med en längre Nato–Ryssland-gräns. Det är mot den bakgrunden som Anderssons uttalande i Politico skall ses och som faktiskt förstärks med att ABF kallt räknar med att @mikaeldamberg överför miljardbelopp ur @Forsvarsmakten budget till studieförbunden och @folkbildning. Se dagens artikel i ämnet så får ni ihop bilden. ABF:s ordförande är Tomas Eneroth. Inte vem som helst utan tidigare näringsminister och framför allt gruppledare i riksdagen samt mångårig ledamot i VU. Han vet exakt vad han kan kräva och exakt vad han kommer få. Han kommer få sina miljarder. Det är bara en fråga om tid. https://t.co/hoDfWKSdly Ping @PlJonson @moderaterna @MariaStenergard #Sverige #MagdalenaAndersson #Politik

"Venemaa tegutseb kübervaldkonnas ja mujal üha aktiivsemalt, kuid NATO on selleks valmis,"NATO on Venemaa küberrünnakuteks ja muudeks hübriidsõja vormideks valmis, ütles alliansi peasekretär Mark Rutte neljapäeval, kutsudes üles suurendama toetust Ukrainale. #NATO #Venemaa #Ukraina

«Peame realistlikult hindama julgeolekuolukorda ja ohte, astuma kiiresti praktilisi samme iga liitlasriigi kaitsevõime tugevdamiseks ning jätkama ettevalmistusi, et tagada NATO valmisolek alliansi territooriumi kaitsmiseks kõikide ohustsenaariumide korral.» #NATO #julgeolek #Läänemere

Den 23 september markerar 25 år sedan den svensk-eritreanske journalisten Dawit Isaak godtyckligt fängslades av eritreanska myndigheter, och en global allians av människorättsorganisationer vädjar om handling för hans omedelbara frigivning och erkännande av de kränkningar han utsatts för under dessa år. #DawitIsaak #MänskligaRättigheter #Pressfrihet