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the one thing we do know is that the Greens will NOT have as much influence over events as before. Whoever is in power will not be beholden to them and the Business orientated right wing parties will have more influence. Our application along with four others is lying on a desk waiting for a decision. Could easily be February.

doesn't affect us by the way - only new applications

me again - nice to see a 226k buy on this side. Maybe this will be our year after all....

currently up 34% - I don't think it's gonna last.....

so few shares in aktie - a couple of grands worth of buys will take us to 15p - lol....

better than n'owt.
Cash calls of approximately US$2.88 million pursuant to the EoD and net of US$0.17 million in subsequent cash
call receipts in July 2018, remain outstanding.

when's that due then?

part 2!

Current opinion polling and the drain on party finances of running another campaign may yet force further compromise on tax rates, immigration, and business regulation. But it will be a hard pill for parties to swallow and it’s one they’ve so far resisted.

An election would have to be held on a Sunday within three months of the fourth vote if it fails, and April 21st, 2019 has therefore been pencilled in as the last possible date by which to organise and hold the poll.

This would create the undesired scenario of elections to the Swedish and European Parliaments happening in quick succession. European elections are set for May 23rd to 26th across the 27 post-Brexit EU member states.

Swedes are increasingly frustrated with the inaction caused by the leadership vacuum. Swedish budgets normally run to 3000 pages.

Last month’s reached just 28, only the basics to keep the country ticking over. Swedes would have liked a new government for Christmas, but by the time they get one, over seven months of policy-making may have been lost.
I particularly like the compromises on business regulation and the lack of electoral funds for a new election...

Over three months since its general election, Sweden is still unable to form a new government - so what are their options?
So far, two candidates to lead the country have been rejected by parliament - which had never even happened once in Sweden until this autumn - leaving the country in the middle of a delicate process.
What’s changed?

Elections in September left the populist hard-right Sweden Democrats - pariahs amongst the traditional parties - in third place with 62 MPs out of 349. Their ascent and the 2015 European migration crisis have led the larger parties to get tougher on immigration. The two traditional blocs came up virtually tied, but neither one can hope to govern without brokering deals beyond the usual alliances.

The centre-left Social Democrats, though maintaining a 101-year streak as largest party, slumped to 28.3 per cent of the vote, their lowest mandate since the party’s infancy in 1908. With eight parties represented in the proportional parliament, the party political system may be balkanising.

The Constitution provides that after four failed votes on the composition of a new government, a snap election would be automatic. Centre-right Moderates Leader Ulf Kristersson and caretaker Social Democratic prime minister Stefan Löfven have both had proposals rejected by MPs.
Who is in charge of the process?

Andreas Norlén, the speaker, is tasked with proposing prime minister candidates and moving the process along.

A maximum of two further formal government proposals can be put before parliament before a snap election would automatically be called.

No one currently has the power to call an extra election without going through this procedure. The speaker announced on Wednesday he would give parties an extended negotiating period until January 14th, 2019 to break the deadlock.

The final two votes, if both need, are provisionally scheduled for January 16th and 23rd. The pressure by the last vote to avoid a snap election is believed to give that proposal the highest chance of passing.
Who will lead negotiations now?

The Speaker said on Wednesday he sees Mr Kristersson and caretaker prime minister Löfven as the only viable prime ministerial candidates, and put pressure on them both to come up with a fresh solution between the different parties.

Based on what they come up with by the mid-January deadline, Norlén intends to propose one of them as prime minister for the penultimate possible parliamentary vote two days later.
Will there be fresh elections?

Michael Sundström, Senior Political Science Lecturer at Lund University, doubts the process will get that far. “For the upcoming two votes, people will sharpen up at that point. No one wants another election except the Sweden Democrats. We would end up with the same situation as now; it may even be harder next time.”

I've about the same as you and have written them off mentally - The thing that keeps me being positive is that at least Zsa Zsa will lose a hell of a lot more and will be fighting for every last penny - he knew all along that he owed this money and was vulnerable- he must have more of a plan than what we've seen so far.

This is the only bit I care about

The Social Democrats' coalition partner, the Green Party, fared no better, with a drop of 0.4 percentage points since the election, putting them exactly at the threshold needed to get any seats in parliament (4 percent

should put them in a stronger position re arbitration/negotiations...at least we ain't going bust!

part 2;

As it has grown, the SD has expelled its most openly racist members, and its more virulent youth wing has split away. But it remains a magnet for those who dislike Muslims, railing against polygamy and crimes committed by immigrants.

On November 14th Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the Moderate party, the largest in the centre-right Alliance, failed to form a government. Parliament rejected his attempt, after his own allies deserted him when it became clear that the SD would vote to allow hin to form a minority government—not, it appeared, as part of any explicit deal he had reached with them. “This is the most serious crisis I’ve been involved in all the years I’ve been in politics,” Mr Kristersson said. If after four formal votes there is still no government, a fresh election will have to be held.

It is unclear what the Sweden Democrats are after. Mostly, they just want mainstream politicians to sit down with them. Some pundits even argue that a share of power might force them to become more responsible, as has happened in Norway. Others, though, predict that they would play the centre-right and centre-left off against each other, threatening to support the other side’s budget if their demands for ever-more-draconian migration curbs are not met.

Support for the SD has grown “on the back of unsolved problems the big parties have not addressed”, says Mr Kristersson. Getting migrants into work will be “difficult but not rocket science”, he says; it will require a mix of better education and new types of jobs for the unskilled.

He is right. Refugees are typically less educated than Swedes, and just starting to learn Swedish. Many are not worth hiring at prevailing wages, which unions can enforce with intimidating tactics such as organising workers at an errant firm’s suppliers to shut down deliveries. All this makes it hard for unskilled workers to price themselves into a job. Such problems can hardly be tackled without a government.

TO UNDERSTAND Swedish politics, consider the trash in Stockholm. Busy Stockholmers who want their clutter lugged to distant recycling centres can download an app that connects them to casual workers who will do it cheaply and straight away. Tiptapp, the “Uber for trash”, is popular not only among time-poor professionals but also among the legions of refugees who cannot find jobs. Tens of thousands have offered their services.

Stockholm has responded by banning Tiptapp, though the ban is not being enforced while Tiptapp appeals. The city argues that rubbish collection is a government monopoly—which perhaps explains why the official contractors are so unhelpful. When Johan Norberg, a local columnist, tried to get a Tiptapp-like service from one, he was told it would cost roughly 20 times as much, take up to five days and only happen during office hours, when he is not at home.

Between 2013 and 2017 Sweden let in 353,000 refugees, equivalent to 3.5% of its population. It has failed woefully to integrate them. Red tape makes it hard for them to find jobs. After five years in the country only 40% of male refugees and 20% of female ones are working. For native-born Swedes of either sex, the figure is nearly 80%. Combined with large handouts, this means that refugees tend to drain the public purse. And this avoidable policy error has helped to poison Swedish politics.

The Sweden Democrats (SD), an anti-immigrant party, warns that newcomers will bankrupt Sweden’s welfare state. The SD won 17.5% of the vote in a general election in September, up from 13% in 2014 and 0.4% 20 years ago. The traditional centre-right and centre-left alliances each have roughly 40%. So a party with neo-Nazi roots holds the balance of power.

This creates a dilemma. The government has already made it much harder for new asylum-seekers to enter Sweden. But the mainstream parties hesitate to embrace the SD itself. To do a deal with the nationalists would lend them respectability. But if the mainstream parties form a grand coalition to exclude the SD, it would become the only serious opposition, and protest voters would have nowhere else to go. Either way, the SD stands to gain.

How worrying is that? As it has grown, the SD has expelled its most openly racist members, and its mo

hardly a surprise.....

didn't say they should - just that they would.....

Ft;
Crucial to any possible coalition are two smaller centre-right parties, Centre and the Liberals. They refused to back Mr Kristersson’s first attempt to form a government as it would rely on the votes of the Sweden Democrats. They then opened the door to Mr Lofven if he agreed to a series of demands — many of which were at odds with the main trade union backers of the Social Democrats — but they both voted against him on Friday after accusing him of not being ready enough to compromise.
Some observers think that Annie Loof, Centre party leader, is in a good position to try to become prime minister, even though she failed when given an informal mandate to sound out the possibility of forming a government. “We have negotiated both for a centre-right government and a centrist government. We are still flexible,” Ms Loof said, adding that one or both of the Moderates or Social Democrats had to change tack and “take responsibility”.Sweden is only the latest European country to deal with the difficulties of forming a viable coalition due to political fragmentation. Latvia is also struggling to find a new government as it seeks to exclude the biggest party due to its links to Russia and ethnic Russians. Sweden still has some way to go before beating Belgium, which went almost 600 days without an elected government in 2010-11.

Swedish lawmakers on Friday rejected proposals for caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Lofven form a center-left government, more than three months after elections that left the country in political limbo.

The Riksdagen voted 200-116 to reject a minority coalition of Lofven's Social Democrats — Sweden's largest party — and the left-leaning Greens.

Friday's vote was the second of a possible four before Speaker Andreas Norlen must call new elections.

He said he would announce next week what the next step will be, adding that informal talks with the party leaders would be held in the coming days.

"I can see the parties in Riksdagen moving Sweden closer to a new election and I will do everything I can to prevent it. But should the parties choose a new vote to have a new government, I will not stand in the way," Norlen said in a statement.

All attempts so far at forming a government have been without the populist, nationalist Sweden Democrats, which have roots in a neo-Nazi movement. Neither the center-left or the center-right bloc in the parliament will cooperate with the party that made great strides in the Sept. 9 election.

The vote produced a hung parliament with the blocs securing about 40 percent of the vote each, leaving neither with a majority and paving the way for months of uncertainty and complex coalition talks.

There was no immediate comment from Lofven who was in Brussels for a European Union summit.

On Thursday, the center-right bloc had its budget proposal for 2019 approved in Parliament — a first blow to Lofven who had presented a transitional and politically neutral budget. In Sweden caretaker governments are not meant to make partisan decisions.

Last month, lawmakers rejected a proposed minority coalition led by the second-largest party, the first time in Swedish history that a proposal for a new prime minister had been defeated.

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Ultimately it's all about power - you can have as many earnest convictions in politics as you like but unless you're in power there's nothing you can achieve. Most politicians would do a deal with the devil if it got them into Government.
The Right will do a sop to the Sweden democrats (cut back on immigration etc) then they can go ahead with all the other policies they've been desperate to introduce for so long. Otherwise they get stuck with the Left in power and the Right will wonder why the hell they bother and what a chance they missed.

Social Democrats must be p*ssed off they couldn't organise a coalition now. And the Right are seeing the benefits of working with Sweden democrats - another election?
The country must hold fresh elections if parliament fails four times to vote for a government.

The Sweden Democrats, who want to turn away asylum seekers and hold a vote on EU membership, won 17.5 percent of the vote in September and could increase that at a snap election, polls show. The Greens and Liberals could drop below the 4 percent threshold for seats in parliament.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/swedish-political-crisis-deepens-as-opposition-get-its-budget-passed-11026308

Wooosh....