The two candidates for the prestigous post was
- Per Westerberg candidate for the Alliance
- Kent Härstedt candidate for the Leftist Green movement
Mr Bodstroem was overseas and could not participate in the election, Ms Hoj Larsen was not present, a Leftist Green politician voted for the oppositions candidate Per Westerberg.
Earlier in the process the government's third biggest party the Environmentalist Party announced that they would cooperate with the Alliance on Immigration and emigration issues. The intial reaction to the Prime Minister's propsal was denied because the Moderate Party supported the cration of 10 new nuclear power plants, this went against the Environmentalist Party's conviction. Who unlike the Moderate Party previously favoured the idea of shutting down the nuclear power plants.
This outcome ensured that the Sweden Democratic Party wouldn't gain the finale verdict. Strategy or not?
The decision has finally been made the Sweden Democratic Party is finally offered the ordinary seats in all of the advisory commitees... And the monthly salary for a Swedish politician has been raised from 1000 to 56.000... Imagine that...
What would happen to the Swedish royal family in the future if the Sweden Democratic Party got what they wanted? Fact is that the royal family of the house Bernadotte is decendants from French Jean Baptiste Bernadotte and also or more importantly the current Queen; Sylvia Sommerlath is a German and Brazilian but she has royal blood... Maybe I'm just not getting it, maybe there is a difference between ordinary immigrants and famous royal immigrants... Does the Swedish royal household represent the Swedish people or not?
This Tuesday the 5th of October the new Swedish government was announced and although I could write a list of all the new and old ministers I will not do that. Not this time, maybe later. Instead I think there was a few other interesting things that happened... Like for instance the dresscode for the announcement of the new government used to be suit and tie but this time especially one party leader decided not to go along with that...
It was the Sweden Democratic Party leader Mr Åkesson who had decided he and his wife would dress up in national costume from their region Blekinge. As an answer to Mr Åkesson's choice of costume another Swedish politician decided to dress up in a national custome from their country of origin but with a Swedish flag.
In the General Church the Swedish Arch Bishop was supposed to deliver her mandatory speach and this time the topic was inspired from the big demonstrations at Sergels torg and also the message that you can't separate, judge and condemn people based solely on their different ethnicities. Apparently this speech did not get approved by the Sweden Democrats who spontaniously decided to march out of the church because they felt attacked or something... The next day the Party leader of the Sweden Democratic Party apologized to the King but by then the harm had already been done...
The King also held a mandatory speach to officially open the government and this year marks the 200th celebration of the Bernadotte family since it is exactly 200 years since Jean Baptiste became King of Sweden and of course this summer's big wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and her Prince...
I personally might not like the fact that Sweden Democrats was elected in the government but it was something that about 10 % of the population wanted. Our country is a democracy and we have a democratic election...
Oh, I just realized how terribly long this post has become...
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