Land of Confussion

Well, the election is over now, but no one seems to know how the political landscape looks like. At least we had fun counting the votes during Sunday night. No problems what so ever with those I worked with. A really good group (even if I was the only one voting for the Alliance). A very low average age and completely unexperienced when it come to counting the votes, but no problems occurred. Still pretty beat after working from 6 am Sunday morning till 2 am Monday morning. Never again shall I complain that the voting process goes so slow.

Who won then? The Alliance become the biggest block to win with 49,3 %, but didn't achieve a majority of the seats. But they got a higher percentage of votes together with a higher voter turnout than last election. All this attributed to Moderaterna (M)as they were the only one that went forward when the others to different degrees fell back (Folkpartiet (Fp)managed best with only a loss of 0,4 % so they will at the moment gain the vice-prime minister post). The biggest loser is the Social Democrats (S) that dangles at 30,9 % and with just 0,9 % above the second biggest party (M). This could change with the re-counting of all votes that are supposed to finish tomorrow. In my own opinion (and others that feel the current parliament with the Swedish Democrats (SD) are unworthy a democracy even though the prefer the left) hopes that the Alliance will gain a majority and with it securing a stable government (a bonus would be if M overtake S as the biggest party, although they haven't had this low support since 1911 meaning this would just be adding insult to injury).

The result, as you probably guessed could have been much better (come on, at least 10 % for the liberals would have been nice or that they could have been 3d largest party instead of 4th... again). SD was also not such a nice surprise although it may not have been so unexpected when they were on everyones lips at the end. The only light I can see is that they actually have to argue against them and all their politics. Sad thing is I think they are here to stay, but there is one way to get rid of them. If the ruling government are able to keep the economic revival that are predicted until next election without touching them, they can pretty much argue that everything they said was a lie and argue that the system we have now is working. This pretty much means that they need to lower unemployment, stop the riots around the larger cities and diminish crime (you know, what everyone says). Hope to God the recount gives them a majority so that they don't have to trust the damned Green party.