Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB.
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Löfven’s party The Social Democrats are sinking most of all in a new poll. His support party, the Green Party, falls below the threshold. The Sweden Democrats are making the most progress.
In a poll conducted by Kantar / Swedish voters’ opinion, it is the Green Party and the Social Democrats – the two parties that make up Stefan Löfven’s government – that go back the most. NTB-TT reports on the case.
The Green Party (similar to the Norwegian MDGs) falls 0.7 percentage points to 3.4 percent, and falls below the threshold. The Social Democrats go down 1 percentage point to 25.5 percent, well below the party’s 30 percent last summer.
Thus, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s position is further weakened after the government crisis he has recently been through.
The immigration-friendly Liberals (equivalent to the Norwegian Liberal Party) are also sinking even further below the threshold in the poll in Sweden. The party falls to 2.3 percent, down 0.2 percentage points. This is the lowest the Liberals have received since Swedish voters’ opinion, a collection of several polls that Kantar does, started eleven years ago.
The picture does not get brighter for Löfven by the fact that it is his fiercest critic, the Sweden Democrats, who is making the most progress. The immigration-critical party, led by Jimmie Åkesson, increases by 1.4 percentage points to 20.5 percent.
Otherwise, the Moderates and Christian Democrats hold the position at 22.1 and 5.2 percent, while the Center Party has a minimal decline of 0.1 percentage points to 9.2 percent.
The Left Party (similar to the Norwegian Social Democrats) is advancing 0.8 percentage points to 10.5 percent.
The poll was taken while Sweden was going through a government crisis where Löfven resigned as a result of a no-confidence vote promoted by the Sweden Democrats and supported by the Moderates and Christian Democrats, as well as the Left Party.
When the Moderates’ Ulf Kristersson had to give up gaining a majority for a bourgeois government, the task went back to Löfven, who in turn formed a government with the Green Party, with support from the Center Party and the Left Party.
The poll shows that the parties that are critical of Löfven, progressed or remained stable, while the two who supported him, dropped significantly. In the opinion of many, this provides an early indication of the trend towards the next parliamentary elections in Sweden, in the autumn of 2022.
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