Very interesting election result from Sweden where on Sunday, the right wing populists of Sverigedemokraterne lost 3 percentage points reducing their seats in parliament from 73 to 62.
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@hrafnagud personally, I hope the US midterms will be a major victory for the opposition, changing the global outlook for democracy, also influencing German politics.
@randahl Let“s hope the best!
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@diekenbrock Nah. If anything they’ve escalated after more mainstream parties started mimicking then. Going from stopping people at the border to sending ”back” those who are already here (including kids who grew up here).
The real risk here is the center-left doing to little in the upcoming four years, and then having the resurge in 2030 (or earlier in case of a government crisis leading to a snap election).
@jordgubben
Ok, thank you
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@randahl in the Netherlands cities are typically more left wing, more green, (Berlin and Paris are also more progressive for sure), but am I correct seeing the opposite (M is the 'moderate' party that wanted to work with the extreme right, right?) in Stockholm? Malmö area is even SD territory?
@murb I think Sweden is a different because it is a huge geography.
Denmark is a small country, and refugees are distributed evenly among regions.
Sweden is a vast country and southern Sweden has many more immigrants than remote regions. I suppose this paves the way for SD's narratives about everything being an immigration problem. While this narrative is less effective in regions with little immigration.
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What is interesting is that SD are loosing ground everywhere, on national level (Riksdagen/parliament), regional level and on the municipal level. Everywhere I have checked in the country they are loosing voters. I would like to see them loose more, and that we would have a larger red-green victory. However, their narrative that they are always gaining and are "true" representatives of the people is broken.
@jorny as it will break for AfD too, eventually.
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Very interesting election result from Sweden where on Sunday, the right wing populists of Sverigedemokraterne lost 3 percentage points reducing their seats in parliament from 73 to 62.
Four years ago, SD grew large enough to become a support party for the right wing government.
It is the same story all over Europe: Every time right wing populists grow large enough to become influential, people realize they cannot deliver.
Loud is not better.
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/politik/valet-2026-sverige-rostar-se-grafiken/
@randahl
Bullshit.
Sweden is an outlier at best. Ask Hungary, Poland, Denmark, the US, France, Spain, ....Hoping, that right-wing extremists will lose by winning is just coping.
It's not like the SD just perished, they've been relatively stable, compared to the conservative parties all over Europe.
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Very interesting election result from Sweden where on Sunday, the right wing populists of Sverigedemokraterne lost 3 percentage points reducing their seats in parliament from 73 to 62.
Four years ago, SD grew large enough to become a support party for the right wing government.
It is the same story all over Europe: Every time right wing populists grow large enough to become influential, people realize they cannot deliver.
Loud is not better.
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/politik/valet-2026-sverige-rostar-se-grafiken/
20th century Germany would like to differ...
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@randahl in the Netherlands cities are typically more left wing, more green, (Berlin and Paris are also more progressive for sure), but am I correct seeing the opposite (M is the 'moderate' party that wanted to work with the extreme right, right?) in Stockholm? Malmö area is even SD territory?
@murb @randahl The M party wants to form the "Tidö" union with SD, L and KD on the national level. But in Stockholm at the municipality level no party wants to cooperate with SD. SD seems to have got 18% nationwide but only 8% of the votes in Stockholm. Stockholm is also more left and more green than the country as a whole.
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Very interesting election result from Sweden where on Sunday, the right wing populists of Sverigedemokraterne lost 3 percentage points reducing their seats in parliament from 73 to 62.
Four years ago, SD grew large enough to become a support party for the right wing government.
It is the same story all over Europe: Every time right wing populists grow large enough to become influential, people realize they cannot deliver.
Loud is not better.
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/politik/valet-2026-sverige-rostar-se-grafiken/
@randahl The entire EU and its member-state governments are corrupt. Voting has become an undemocratic farce, with results driven by censorship, propaganda, and lies. Only someone brainwashed would fail to mention it.
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Very interesting election result from Sweden where on Sunday, the right wing populists of Sverigedemokraterne lost 3 percentage points reducing their seats in parliament from 73 to 62.
Four years ago, SD grew large enough to become a support party for the right wing government.
It is the same story all over Europe: Every time right wing populists grow large enough to become influential, people realize they cannot deliver.
Loud is not better.
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/politik/valet-2026-sverige-rostar-se-grafiken/
@randahl the left party is gaining many of those percentage points.
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@murb @randahl The M party wants to form the "Tidö" union with SD, L and KD on the national level. But in Stockholm at the municipality level no party wants to cooperate with SD. SD seems to have got 18% nationwide but only 8% of the votes in Stockholm. Stockholm is also more left and more green than the country as a whole.
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@randahl
Bullshit.
Sweden is an outlier at best. Ask Hungary, Poland, Denmark, the US, France, Spain, ....Hoping, that right-wing extremists will lose by winning is just coping.
It's not like the SD just perished, they've been relatively stable, compared to the conservative parties all over Europe.
@s10n do you mean the Hungary which just defeated Orbán? Or the Poland which defeated PiS? Or Denmark which is on its third centrist government lead by the Social Democrats to keep DF without influence?
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@s10n do you mean the Hungary which just defeated Orbán? Or the Poland which defeated PiS? Or Denmark which is on its third centrist government lead by the Social Democrats to keep DF without influence?
@randahl
So Orban was in charge for just one election cycle? As was PiS? And Denmark isn't already implementing far-right anti-immigrant policies?
Wtf are you talking about?"It is the same story all over Europe: Every time right wing populists grow large enough to become influential, people realize they cannot deliver." my ass.
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@FrancoisPrague that is amusing. Can I ask who said that?
@randahl or we could go with Aussie right wing politician, ex-PM Tony Abbot:
"There are core, and non-core promises."
Went down like a lead balloon carrying an elephant.
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@s10n do you mean the Hungary which just defeated Orbán? Or the Poland which defeated PiS? Or Denmark which is on its third centrist government lead by the Social Democrats to keep DF without influence?
@ s10n @ mastodon. social
#Toodles and #WhackaTroll
Disininformation account.
Even right wing voters tire of wildfires, flash floods, enormous clean up costs, droughts, water shortages, heat domes. Even they can't continue ignoring their homes when they burn down.
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