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previously said there should be no reasons why an application by tasman metals should not succeed (as energy minister) - sounds like he is one of the good guys.....

I see damberg is in justice ministry now.

So, no major change - we will have to see what influence the other parties have to get the licence application going. Aktie not exactly collapsed on news - up 1%

who got industry?

still, culture eh? shouldn't affect us - nothing to do with licence application.....more concerned about environment

never like to rely on google translate...

hitting 0.75 over there = hotting up - about 6.5p

just said his government will ensure there are lots more jobs. Well.......

we'll find out next week - but I wouldn't obsess about the Greens - if the state miner wants kallak the state will make it sure the licence is granted.

The joker remains the Left Party, which has made clear it’s ready to veto policies it doesn’t like, though it won’t have enough clout to derail Lofven’s budget proposals.

Ulf Bjereld, a professor of social sciences at the University of Gothenburg and a member of the Social Democratic Party, says he thinks “things are going to be less dramatic going forward than many expect.” The drawn-out negotiations ultimately mean that “they’ve had time to think it through. Also, it’s not like there is another government alternative.”

Law and Order

Meanwhile, Lofven’s four-party agreement doesn’t make many concessions to voters worried about law and order, or immigration. The question is whether that’s wise, given the clear signal from the electorate that those issues are of concern for many Swedes.

Jimmie Akesson, who leads the Sweden Democrats, said the Social Democratic Party “hasn’t understood anything. They are returning to a policy that will increase immigration even more, the issue that was the absolutely most important during the previous term.”

The Sweden Democrats gained support as voters reacted to a surge in immigration in the wake of the Syrian refugee crisis, and polls also suggest that Swedes are concerned about a rise in crime, with extreme examples including a large number of street shootings and mobs setting cars on fire.

Carl Schlyter, a former member of the European parliament for the Green Party, criticized efforts to block any single group from influence if it’s won the backing of the people.

“You can’t have the exclusion of other parties as your goal, you must have a positive common project that you believe in,” he told Swedish Radio on Thursday. If the goal is “to stop right-wing extremism, then you’ve misunderstood why these populist parties are on the rise.” Schlyter is so put out by the choices his party has made that he says he’s leaving in protest.

Swedes appear to have less faith in their politicians since the election

Per capita, Sweden let in more asylum seekers than any other European Union nation in 2015. Scandinavia’s largest economy now has a chance to show it can absorb the newcomers without giving way to a populist backlash. That will be a clear challenge facing the new government, and the rest of Europe will be watching.

After the longest political standoff in its history, Sweden finally has a government.

The parliament in Stockholm voted to let Social Democrat Stefan Lofven become prime minister. He will lead a coalition that straddles both sides of the political divide, but that keeps the nationalist Sweden Democrats away from the levers of power.

“In times when right-wing extremist forces are growing in many countries, Sweden has chosen another way forward,” said Anders Ygeman, who is group leader for the Social Democratic Party.

The New Government

The coalition itself will only comprise the Social Democrats and the Green Party.
The Center Party and the Liberals, which are breaking away from their traditional partners in the center-right Alliance to join Lofven, will provide the parliamentary support the prime minister needs to stay in power.
The Left Party has agreed not to topple Lofven -- at least not for now -- after some last-minute brinkmanship earlier in the week.
This is Lofven’s second stint in office, after he was elected to a four-year term in 2014.


The development brings to an end more than four months of uncertainty in a country usually associated with high levels of political stability. Markets had responded with relative calm to the stalemate, thanks to a well functioning government apparatus behind the scenes, but a lot was resting on Lofven’s success. If he’d failed, Sweden would have faced a snap election, and a very uncertain future.

Relief

“It’s a relief that the threat of a snap election this spring has disappeared,” said Henrik von Sydow, a strategist at Carnegie who also used to be a lawmaker for the opposition Moderate Party. “That would definitely have been an additional risk for investors.”

It’s likely to go down in Swedish history books as a near escape. The Sept. 9 election was inconclusive, and the two biggest parties -- the Social Democrats and the Moderates -- both refused to concede defeat. As the establishment blocs struggled to deal with the new reality, the Sweden Democrats -- with their neo-Nazi roots and euro-skeptic policies -- appeared to emerge as the ultimate kingmakers. The party, which inside parliament has a near pariah-status, had secured almost a fifth of the popular vote.

Political Gridlock

Swedish election failed to produce a clear winner

Among the more established parties, there was a tacit agreement to keep the Sweden Democrats out of any coalition. But the jury is still out as to whether the nationalists can be excluded from influence in the long run.

For now, Lofven needs to ensure he satisfies the centrists without alienating the left. The Center Party and the Liberals want to cut income taxes. The Social Democrats have tended to be ideologically opposed to such a step but have now struck a compromise. The joker remains the Left Party, which has made clear it’s ready to veto policies it doesn’t like, though it won’t have eno

I don't want Greenies anywhere near our application.

But, the difference this time is they can't get away with doing nothing on applications anymore - the Soc dems know that they can be brought down at anytime if they fail to consider the Libs and Annie's views on business. Hopefully kurt has been haranguing Annie about our application...

On paper, the government Mr Lofven is likely to lead looks much the same as the one the former welder and union leader has been running since 2014 — it will be a minority coalition with the Green party.But due to the rise of the nationalist Sweden Democrats — who came third in September’s elections with 17.5 per cent — there is an entirely new underpinning to the government. No longer is it sufficient to rely on the bloc politics of old in which the larger of the centre-left or centre-right has governed.Mr Lofven struck a deal not just with the centre-left Greens but also the centre-right Centre and Liberal parties. “We now have the possibility to draw a line under four months of political uncertainty in Sweden and put in place a strong government which is not dependent on the Sweden Democrats,” he told reporters on Wednesday.But there still is uncertainty, not least due to the unusual nature of the cross-party agreement. The 73-point plan — dubbed the January agreement by Swedish media — contains provisions to exclude a far-left party from influence. The party kicked up a fuss this week, threatening to torpedo Mr Lofven’s re-election unless it was given some compromises. The ex-Communists finally acquiesced on Wednesday, but it is not clear what, if anything, they gained

nice one - 0.725 sek reached over there
remeber - Kurt said we had to wait for a new gov't before a decision - well, he was right and now they have one.

they seem to be using standard paragraphs for each well....

sneaking up over there - hopefully the new gov't will start the ball rolling again, whatever it's make up....

Yes, I know it wasn't exactly rolling before.....

current one;
https://www.government.se/government-of-sweden/ministry-of-the-environment/karolina-skog/

there's 22 - and Greens in charge of environment

so, next big question - who heads the ministries? should find out next week. If we can avoid the Greens on the environment (not sure Annie would be keen to see that happen as this would make a nonsense of her mining strategy). A non-greenie in charge would have a massive effect on the SP.

as long as they make a decision - we can appeal a no to the courts who will consider the facts and law -not politics and sentiment.

and...
its outsider status. Many voters are upset at the lengths to which the other parties go to isolate the Sweden Democrats, and this deal across the political spectrum will likely re-enforce that sentiment. Moreover, the deal between the Social Democrats and the other parties does little to address the tide of crime and violence that has been on the rise in Sweden over the past few years, in significant part a result of the large-scale immigration. For example, according to Sweden’s public service channel Sveriges Television, 58 percent of those convicted of rape in Sweden between 2012 and 2017 were born abroad, and an investigation by Sweden’s largest daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, has shown that overall, individuals from other countries are over-represented in crime statistics. The badly needed funding increases for police and law enforcement will not be forthcoming, and some estimates hold that tens of thousands (or more) additional immigrants from the Middle East and Africa will come to Sweden as a result of some of the political proposals in the deal. The biggest winner, aside from the Social Democrats, may well be the Sweden Democrats. That is, as long as it passes. By the end of this week, we should know.