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In terms of percentages and seats, the news is that not that much has changed. The Sweden Democrats makes gains, but end up on around 5% less than many (me included) had feared. The Social Democrats only drop around 3%, still the worst result for almost 100 years, but again, the drop is around 5 points smaller than expected. The Left Party progresses, but less than we had hoped. However, the fall out can still be rather dramatic. With no clear centre-left or centre-right majority (they're practically even) and no official agreement between the parties of the two blocs like the one they made last time around - to allow the biggest bloc to form a governement to keep SD out - it's extremely hard to tell what our next government will look like. The tories and social democrats are not quite ready to jump into bed with each other yet, German fashion. At the same time, some of the smaller centre-right parties are still very reluctant to be seen to govern with support of the racists in SD. My guess is that we will end up with a government based on social democrats, a couple of the smaller centre-right parties and the Greens, that just managed to stay in parliament. But that's just a guess. If so, in four years the social democrats could be reduced to Greek figures and SD would stand to gain even more. Either way, our next government will be worse than our present, which says a lot. More nasty neoliberalism is coming our way, in the country where inequality grows faster even than in the US or UK. Add to that that the next capitalist crisis is almost certain to arrive during the coming four years, and things look frightening, to say the least. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
