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The political situation in Sweden has been interesting for quite some time, ever since the election back in October 2014.
The election process in Sweden is different from most countries, instead of one party with the most votes winning we have several parties who together group up in a block. So the right block consists of four parties while the left block consists of two. The winning block then forms the government.

In 2014 neither block was able to reach a majority, because neither side wanted to include the Sweden Democrats in their block since that would mean that they would have to support their politic opinions, which are generally all about immigration in Sweden.

These were the results in the election in 2014

Rightwing: M, C, FP, KD

Left Wing: S,  MP

The government itself was elected to be representatives of the left wing but they cannot take any decisions themselves  without the consent of the parliament.
Now that the election was over the parliament have vote for a budget plan to go through. SD then shot down the budget proposal of the left wing and announced that they wouldn't support any budget plan that led to an increase in immigration.

For a while it seemed like there was to be a re-election but in December 2014 the right and left wing came to an agreement which we refer to as the December Agreement (DÖ for short). What this agreement meant was that if there were to be no majority in an election the wing with the most support would win while the other wing simply supports their decisions. So they did this for the sole reason of making sure SD had nothing to say in the parliament. This agreement was to last until 2022.

It was fairly obvious from the start that it wouldn't. Mainly because that would mean that SD which has gotten a lot more support since 2014 were to be the biggest party in the next election I doubt any other parties would simply let them get all their ideas through the parliament.

In October 2015 it fell apart when KD decided that they wanted none of it. Right now there seems to be no plans of another election.

2 weeks after DÖ was abolished the very same parties formed another agreement regarding the immigration issues Sweden was now facing. Although this agreement didn't mention anything that would lead to less immigration. It was once again an agreement made only for the purpose of making sure SD had absolutely no say in the questions regarding immigration. Sweden has now started placing patrols on the border that try their best not to let any terrorists in, but at the moment we're doing nothing to slow down the flood of refugees coming into the country. I personally find it very silly how the politicians have been completly ignoring the immigration questions for years out of fear of being called racists. Now that we have a crisis on our hands they're discussing it but not really countering it in any way.

Now we're sitting here taking in more refugees than most countries in Europe and spending as much money on these immigrants than the UN does helping 6 million refugees worldwide. And it's only going to get worse from here. We are already starting to run out of places where the refugees can sleep with a roof over the head and it sure doesn't help that we have people burning down asylum housings to show their disapproval.

According to recent political surveys the Sweden Democrats have risen to about 20% which sends pretty clear signals about what the inhabitants of Sweden thinks about how the refugee crisis is handled in Sweden.

I personally think that Sweden will sooner or later collapse in debt if this goes on. Those who are against this often bring up how Sweden has done similar things during World War II. But this comparison is vastly different due to certain factors.

The first one is that back during WWII the labor was needed. Wars are generally profitable. Sweden made a big profit selling iron,lumber and weapons to various countries involved. The help of the refugees and former prisoners from concentration camps really helped boost Sweden's economy. Today we really don't have the jobs or the economy to support so many people.

Secondly, during World War II the refugees didn't stay very long. During the earlier part of WWII Sweden had a pretty strict policy about how many refugees were allowed to stay, only taking in about 500 jews. In the latter half and after the war we took in many more, so many that museums and schools were transformed into temporary shelters. Many of them emigrated only a couple of years later to America or Israel. The situation today is looking worse, the war in Syria could easily last 20 years and if Sweden is still standing by then the crisis will have already blown over and I would be proven wrong.

So yeah, looking back at this text I've realised how much bigger it ended up than I initially intended. I just felt like I needed to give some basic information on how we ended up in this mess.

I personally agree with some of the points the Sweden Democrats bring up but wouldn't at the moment vote for them due to a lot of their higher ranked officials saying some very inappropriate things. Immigration aside I'm still laid on the right side of the political scale.

TL;DR
Sweden is in deep shit, we're drowning in kebabs, pls send help.

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