Tidö Agreement

Sweden uses a nationwide proportional representation system with a 4% threshold, so that's how the seats have been allocated.

The incumbent, incumbent government that is no more was built on the Tidö Agreement of 2022, under which the Moderates, who are center right, sitting with the European People's Party, alongside the Swedish Christian Democrat Party and the Liberals, who are in Renew.

They governed in a coalition with support from the populist right wing, far right Sweden Democrats, who stayed outside of cabinet in a sort of supply-side agreement in parliament.

The opposition to that government is not a formal coalition, but four very different parties who now are tasked with finding a way of ruling Sweden.

I really wanna start first with, with the Moderates, quote, unquote.

What are, like, what were they campaigning on? What was their legacy of their last government? Um, can we talk about Tidö Castle, because I think that's a fun word.

Y- yes.

Yes.

Hmm

... uh, and made an agreement which immediately was christened with the name of this castle.

Uh, and, uh, some people almost immediately started r- started referring to this new coalition as, uh, the Tidö coalition.

Uh, or in some cases, and, uh, I don't know how well this pun will translate, but a lot of left-wing people started referring to them as Tidölaget, which literally means the Tidö team.

It was a classic, you know, s- I think it's called supply and demand, that they, they signed an agreement, um, in 2022 after the election.

It's called the Tidö Agreement, named after a castle in Sweden, and it was, it was taboo-shattering at the time.

It was, for the first time, center-right parties, who promised they would never work with this far-right party, agreed to do just that, but in an informal way.

So the Sweden Democrats have had it quite nice for the last couple of years.

A hundred and seventy-five seats are needed for a majority.

So it looks like Tidö's time could be up, a dö Tidö indeed were the words of Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar overnight The Tidö Agreement, which brought together the moderates, liberals, and Christian democrats in coalition with support from the nationalist Sweden Democrats, took its name from Tidö Castle, where the agreement was negotiated.

The coalition has been run by Ulf Kristersson of the moderates.

Now though, it looks like he could be handing over, or handing back over I should say, to his predecessor.

The Sweden Democrats were long a pariah in Swedish politics due to their Nazi roots.

But as the largest party on the right in the 2022 election, they emerged as one of the main architects of the Tidö Agreement underpinning the government's so-called paradigm shift on immigration over the past four years.

The shift to see Sweden get much tougher on asylum immigration, work and residence permits, and citizenship, with many of the policies directly impacting a lot of readers of The Local.

With that in mind, make sure to tune in to this week's main episode of Sweden in Focus, which we expect to come out on Friday, for discussion and analysis of these interviews with the main immigration spokespeople for two of Sweden's biggest rival parties.

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I mean, under the Tidö, Tidö Agreement, Sweden's migration policy has, I think most people would agree, largely been set by the Sweden Democrats policy program.

And so how do you feel it's gone? H- h- has, has the party got what it wanted? Has, ha- h- I mean, how satisfied is the party by the last four years?