I wish the new PM luck. It's very difficult to change hearts and minds after years of socialism.
Not that the reporters covering the story are *permitted* to mention it, but this is yet another example of an anti-Iraq-war government being toppled.
Martin is gone from Canada. Schroeder is gone from Germany. Now the anti-Iraq-War government in Sweden is toppled.
Chirac in France is next.
You just aren't allowed to say the above in print or on the air.
Do they have anything like a national system of property recordation and naturalization of persons such as corporations?
He was born in August 1965 into a family of entrepreneurs. His father ran a training company and his mother worked in recruitment. Mr Reinfeldt has cited their experience of the difficulties of business life - "the petty aggressive attitude toward entrepreneurship" - as being one of the key factors which influenced his political activity.At the age of 26, only a year after graduating from Stockholm University with a degree in economics, he was first elected to the Riksdag. He became the head of the Moderate Party's youth wing in 1992.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5355938.stm
Good news. Thanks for posting and answering questions. Education BUMP!
Ping to the Swedish Ping List.The new PM has a tough job ahead of him. I would say that this is mainly due to the fact that Sweden is what we often call a "one-party state in people's minds" - not sure how to translate that into English.
Anyway, the for so long ruling socialist party has put its people everywhere: In the education system, in government authorities whose sole purpose is to "educate" the citizens, etc not to mention the press, whose journalists according to polls in 2000 to 70% favoured the left. Please then take note that the new PM is probably to the left of the american Democrat party.
It is a tough job but we have to change course. It will not happen overnight but if we adjust the Swedish system for two peroids of term - i.e. 8 years - it might make a significant difference. If they only stay for one term, the socialist will revert all the changes and then claim the credit for all the good effects that will show up after a few years themselves. It has happened before.
I visited your country for the first time a little over a month ago, and loved what I saw of it. My husband and I got into a conversation over dinner with an older, apparently prosperous gentleman, whose opening remark to us when he heard we were American was, "When are you going to DO something about your president?"
I indicated that something would be "done" one way or another when his term was up and not before (since we don't really want to imitate Sweden's record of recent political assassinations). We discussed tax rates, socialism, etc., and while he didn't seem too happy about it, he had a very "oh, well, what are you going to do about it" sort of attitude.
Since he had houses in the country and in France, he didn't seem like someone who was too pinched. He didn't seem to think much would change, so I wonder if that's a general sentiment there.
After that we discussed opera, it was safer. ;)
