At the head of the third party after the September 11 elections, the conservative leader was elected head of government thanks to the support of the extreme right.
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In the annals of the conservative party of the moderates, we remember it as the “Battle of Lycksele”, named after this commune in northern Sweden which, in 1992, welcomed the MUF Congress (Moderaternas Ungdomsförbundet) , conservative youth. Their president since 1988, Ulf Krissels, 28, thought he was easily re -elected. Criticized for his dilettantism and his taste more pronounced for communication than for political reflection, he was beaten with three votes by Fredrick Reinfeldt, then 27 years old.
Nine years later, while Ulf Krissels had given up his mandate as a deputy, Fredrick Reinfeldt took the leadership of the Conservative party, then became Prime Minister in 2006, at the head of a “bourgeois” alliance – a coalition Composed of conservatives, Christian democrats, liberals and centrists. The Swedish right was on the rise. In 2010, the Conservative Party won 30 % of the votes in the legislative elections, the best score in its history.
It was that year that Ulf Krissels returned to business, appointed Minister of Social Security by his former opponent. At the time, no one would have imagined seeing him one day take the direction of the party – which he did in 2017, after the resignation of Anna Kinberg Batra, in office under three years. A year later, he lost the legislative elections and found himself head of the opposition.
Monday, October 17, Ulf Krissels finally broke the fate that seemed to condemn him to play the supporting roles. 58 years old, the boss of the Conservatives was elected Prime Minister with 176 votes to 173. During a brief press conference, after the vote, he said he was “honored with the confidence” of the deputies and confided that ‘It was a “big moment” for him.
This personal victory, however, can only obscure the fact that with 19.1 % of the votes in the legislative elections of September 11, Mr. KrisSSSON is the most ill -elected Prime Minister since 1978 and that he owes his majority than an alliance with the extreme right. He has already had to make important concessions to the Democrats of Sweden (SD), worth the harsh criticisms of the opposition of the center left, which accuses him of being a “puppet”.
In July 2013, Fredrick Reinfeldt had warned against the temptation of a rapprochement with the nationalist party: “They bring hatred in Swedish politics (…). They intend to use all the influence they can generate For only one thing: attacking people from other countries (…). Our message is: you will have no influence. “Among the spectators, Ulf KrisSson, in pink shirt and V -neck, applauded everything.
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