The election

Hmm, what can you say about the election ...

It was not as I had hoped. Sure, the Alliance will continue to reign and The Moderate Party  did their best election ever. It's great fun and fantastic. It means that the Swedish people have faith in our government at the politics they have been doing is working.

But there are two major things that make me have a little hard to jump and shout.

The first is obvious that the Sweden Democrats were elected. Not so much because they will begin to influence Swedish policy, for they will not. They will not have anything to say, because no one wants to work with them. They will get to express their views in the pulpit, but so much more, it will not be. What is worse is that they actually are now in parliament. Sweden has so far been spared xenophobic parties in their parliaments. Things have just been dodgy countries in Europe who hold on to. Belgians, Frenchmen, Austrians, Danes and stuff. Not in Sweden. We have a lot of idiotic socialist parties here, but somebody xenophobic, no, nothing like that. Until now.
So it is not SD's actual practical impact  I care about, but it is the symbolism. The Swedish people vote for xenophobic parties. We have let the racists in the Parliament. We are not better than other countries on the weird stuff. It has been a hassle to have to acknowledge that here in the U.S. now.

My second concern is the fact that the Alliance did not get their own majority. All votes are not counted yet, and would it be so that they may together get their own majority, I will jump and shout and spray champagne. But where are not there now, and perhaps will not end there either.

Then there are a few options.

• Cooperation with the support of SD is out of question. Neither would any Alliance Party switch to the red and greens.
• Could perhaps individual red-green members choose to support the Alliance? Not reliable. Not only can they choose to repent and then they become problems. Would they die or otherwise lose his parliamentary seat, they will be replaced by other Social Democrats who might not want to support the Alliance. So I do not believe either.
• Rule with minority. Not recommended. Swedish policy will be crippled for four years, and not much will get done. Big defeat in 2014 follows.
• The only issue appears to be realistic is to work with the Green Party. And then they shall have the ministerial posts. The way to recognize their need for them, and also bound to sustain cooperation. It is also fair that if Sweden's third largest party supporting the government, they also sit in it.

They must get ministerial posts. And they should probably get their items they are interested in. I can even imagine to upset one of my main questions: if we get a strong majority, I can imagine that does not expand nuclear power the coming term. We should not decrease it either, but they can happyly invest in more green option if they want it. I like also the suggestion to expand high speed trains. However, again, it may not be at the expense of domestic flights.
The other parties may begin to cooperate on how to do. Here's my proposal on the new government.

• Prime Minister: Fredrik Reinfeldt (M)
• Finance: Anders Borg (M)
• Minister for Foreign Affairs: Carl Bildt (M)
• Labour Minister: Hillevi Engstrom (M)
• Development Aid: Tove Lifvendahl (M)
• Democracy Minister: Henrik von Sydow (M)
• Energy Minister: Annie Jackson (C)
• Minister of the EU: Christopher Fjellner (M)
• Defense: Sten Tolgfors (M)
• Trade: Gunilla Carlsson (M)
• Higher Education and Research: Tobiaz Krantz (FP)
• Infrastructure Minister: Peter Eriksson (MP)
• Integration Minister: Nyamko Sabuni (FP)
• Agriculture: Eskil Erlandsson (C)
• Minister of Justice: Beatrice Ask (M)
• Gender Equality: Mikaela Waltersson (MP)
• Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth (M)
• Migration: Tobias Billström (M)
• Environment: Maria Wetterstrand (MP)
• For Industry: Maud Olofsson (C) Also a continuation as Deputy Prime Minister
• Minister for Social Security: Lars Gustafsson (KD)
• Social Affairs: Göran Hägglund (KD)
• Education Minister Jan Bjorklund (PF)
• Mature Minister Maria Larsson (KD)