Posted on 09/11/2022 1:45:49 PM PDT by FarCenter
22:22 ‘I’ve never been so nervous’
Matilda Ekeblad, chair of the MUF, the Moderates’ youth party, has told The Local’s Richard Orange that she is feeling extremely tense as the results are so far staying stubbornly close to the exit poll result.
“I am really on edge. I still think we’ll take it home, but I’ve never been so nervous,” she said.
Asked if she thinks Ulf Kristersson should resign if he loses the election, she laughed nervously.
“I think we’ll see when we get a result. I think he’s going to be Prime Minister.”
Pushed on whether it had been a mistake to accept the support and begin political cooperation with the far-right Sweden Democrats, she said it had been necessary.
“Obviously, we don’t think it’s a lot of fun. We would have felt a lot better to have a pure centre-right government like the Alliance was,” she said about the centre-right coalition that governed Sweden between 2006 and 2014.
22:00 How does the next government get picked?
Sweden uses a form of proportional representation called the modified Sainte-Laguë method (jämkade uddatalsmetoden) to allocate seats.
In short: the parties’ total number of votes per constituency are divided by 1.2 in the first round of counting and the first seat gets allocated to whichever party has the highest quotient. In the next round they’re divided by 3, then 5, then 7 and so on. Only parties that have won more than four percent of the vote nationwide (or at least 12 percent of the vote in a specific constituency, although this is unlikely to happen) get counted.
They keep going like this until 310 so-called fixed seats have been allocated. Thirty-nine levelling seats remain and are then allocated to ensure that the parties are proportionally represented.
Once we know how many seats the parties get in parliament, the work to form the next government begins. The incumbent government doesn’t automatically get ousted, so first the prime minister either resigns or says that they want to remain in power – then, parliament votes on whether or not to accept the prime minister’s government. If more than half of the MPs vote no, the prime minister and government must resign, otherwise things remain as they are.
When the prime minister resigns, the speaker of parliament will initiate talks with the party leaders to figure out who is best positioned to form a new government. Sweden usually has a minority government (sometimes made up of a coalition of several parties, sometimes only one party) that enjoys the support of enough other parties in parliament to make up a majority.
For example, Magdalena Andersson is currently in charge of a Social Democrat government which only has 100 out of 349 seats in parliament, but with the support of the Greens and to some extent the Centre, Left, and one left-leaning independent MP who tends to side with the government, she has a slim majority in parliament. Yes, it’s been an interesting four years.
Then, parliament votes on the speaker’s proposal. If yes, Sweden has a new government. If no, the speaker resumes talks with the parties. This process took 129 days after the 2018 election, a record for Sweden (the previous record was 25 days after the 1979 election).
Do you have to be some kind of Mathematician to figure out who wins their elections?
Diversity Voting ? LOL
I just read an article about Willie Brown’s former mistress crying and lamenting the fact that the MAGAs are ruining our election credibility and she wants America to be the election “role model” for the world. When you think about it, it sounds like we already are.
chair of the MUF, the Moderates’ youth party, has told The Local’s Richard Orange
So Muffy, young and moderate, is yelling at some local dude?
I don't get it.
Is this some new Chinese kind of post?
They keep going like this until 310 so-called fixed seats have been allocated. Thirty-nine levelling seats remain and are then allocated to ensure that the parties are proportionally represented.
Then a mouse is lowered in front of a cat on a treadmill which turns a bingo cage to pick the remaining 24 members. The 25th selection is the most moderate of the leftover candidates who will occupy the parliamentary "free space".
It apparently takes a week, even though they likely have some pretty strong desktop PCs.
There can’t be more than ten million votes for 349 seats amongst ~29 districts.
The process sounds way more complicated than counting though.
She is damn uppity. I'll tell her what ruins election credibility: fake "broken water pipes", poll watchers kicked out of the building, and then seeing the lowlife dishonest Negress running the same stack of ballots through the counting machine over, and over, and over again. How 'bout that credibility.
Credibility ceases when counting is "called off for the night", and magically in the morning the tally has changed in favor of the Democrats, as if by a magic overnight miracle.
The 2020 Presidential election was stolen by fraud. It was made worse by complicit RINOs like Georgia's Raffensperger turning a blind eye to the fraud.
No fair. Unless their calculations include hyperbolic cosines and some transcendental functions, I say no deal.
Jimmie Akesson needs to win today or next election.
I thought Abba picked the 25th selection. That's the name of the game.
proportional representation voting: each qualifying party gets seats in the national assembly in proportion to their vote (in Sweden you need 4 percent to qualify)
After the actual counting (well, right as of now, they’ve counted 94% of the vote), the four right of center parties together got 50.5 percent of the vote; and, the center and three left of center parties 49.5 percent
Assuming the four right of center parties can work things out, the Swedish Democrats will be a part of the incoming government. They’re priorities are (1) tightening up immigration, (2) enforcing the law, and (3) not being stupid about climate change. I am confident that each of these priorities will be addressed by the in-coming government.
For those of you who like the “winner takes all” rule, the Social Democrats would be re-elected under that rule.
Has Scoldilocks given her opinion since she is now 19 and able to vote in Swedish elections?
“Has Scoldilocks given her opinion since she is now 19 and able to vote in Swedish elections?”
here goes nothing: “How dare you!”
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