Greens rule out joining Sweden's conservative-liberal minority

The Telegraph ^ | 9/20/2010 | Bruno Waterfield

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Sweden's Greens have told the prime minister that they will not work with his conservative-liberal minority as the country's politicians scramble to try and keep newly elected far-Right MPs out of the government.

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and his wife Filippa. Reinfeldt appears to be heading for an
historic second term

Sweden has now become the third previously stable Western European country since June to be without a governing majority after elections marked by the rise of far-Right, anti-immigrant or separatist parties.

Frederik Reinfeldt, the current Prime Minister, has pleaded for time and help from other mainstream parties to deal with an unprecedented breakdown of the Swedish consensus model of politics.

The Greens along with all other Swedish parties have refused to co-operate with the far-Right but on Monday threw Swedish politics into further disarray by refusing to work with Mr Reinfeldt too.

"We are not going to be a support party to the Alliance," said Maria Wetterstrand, a Green leader.

Mr Reinfeldt's Alliance of four conservative and liberal parties fell three seats short of a historic second term majority in Sunday's election to take 172 seats in the 349 member Riksdag, Sweden's parliament.

A Left-Green opposition bloc, led by the Social Democrats, who got their worst result since 1914, won 157 seats leaving the parliament without a majority and the far-Right Sweden's Democrats potentially holding the country's government to ransom with 20 MPs.

"We take responsibility based on the election result that we have got. We will do this without using words such as chaos, but with the orderliness that is expected of us," said Mr Reinfeldt yesterday.

Like parties in the Netherlands, Austria and Denmark, Sweden's Democrats, which yesterday boasted of having "written political history", campaigned on anti-Islam and anti-immigrant

[a fool in paradise]

Do “conservative-liberals” eat “jumbo-shrimp”?

[bruinbirdman]

Who is defining far-right as a pejorative?

yitbos

[a fool in paradise]

International Green Party Communists.

[hinckley buzzard]

Many europeans are waking to find that what they thought was a nightmare, is real. Many others resent the intrusion and prefer to keep on dreaming sweet dreams of consensus and unity.

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Why are they afraid to have the New Democrats join the coalition?

[muawiyah]

Many Europeans are waking up to find the family busboy is actually an Islamofascist fanatic, but the guys who ride motorcycles and shave their heads are now portraying themselves as public heroes.

Somewhere in between there old Europe flushed down the drain.

I think this is where Europeans resort to traditional methods. Best hide the motorcycles and that prayer bump on the forehead!