on Friday and Saturday and collected the Moderates in Karlstad in order to keep Sverigemöte. The focus is on local politics and the upcoming EU-elections, but it will also be the first opportunity for conservatives from across the country to discuss the oppositionsrollen after the failure to form a government earlier in the year.
For M does the new role mean to the party now, time to reshape policy and new thinking. The conservatives went back up by three percentage points in the parliamentary elections, and it was in the first place in the big cities as voters abandoned the party. It is a above role for a party which for a long time had its strongest ushered a major period of just in the big cities.
– The most obvious reason is the overall trend of gentrification. Then, the Swedish political landscape has undergone enormous changes in a short time. Therefore, our recommendation to the party is clear: now is the time to focus on the basic moderate frihetsbudskapet, ” says Mats Green, the mp who led the work with M:s eftervalsanalys.
pieces a scathing vidräkning of how the Conservatives handled the time after the election loss in 2014. The wreck of the decemberöverenskommelsen caused severe identity crisis within the M and led to that it became difficult to convince the electorate that M really wanted to take over power, is a conclusion.
But also the management of migration policy are singled out as a reason to väljartappet. For even if the M la on their own migration policy were the voters confused as to whether the party would make an impact for the new direction since the other ruling coalition parties had agreed partly went in a different direction.
the Conservatives lost voters, primarily for the three parties in the parliamentary elections: The sweden democrats, the Christian democrats and the Centre party, shows valanalysen. The greatest was the loss to SD. Valanalysen notes that M must put our foot down on how one should relate to the SD because the voters demand it. ”The party must simply choose a position that is clear to the voters and that it bottoms in”, enter the analytical group without giving any advice on which path the party should choose.
if you Look geographically, it is clear that there is among the inhabitants of the major conurbations that the Conservatives lost the most. Compared with 2014 dropped support for the M in storstadskommunerna by 5.6 percentage points. The corresponding pin, in the rural municipalities was 2.4 percentage points.
about the development in Sweden is beginning to resemble that of many other western countries, with the more progressive urban and conservative rural areas. The results of the election in 2018 in this direction.
Mats Green mean that it is something that the Conservatives must relate to because the party’s strongest ushered a major period still exist in the big cities. He sees the increased gentrification in the big cities as an important explanation for the fact that M has more difficult to attract the voters.
Mats Green. Photo: Björn Lindahl/Aftonbladet/TT
– the big Cities and the capitals of the vote, significantly less right than what they did in the 1980s. The development we see in Germany, France, the Uk, and we have seen both in Norway and Finland, ” says Mats Green
It is less clear what you are voting on the basis of your level of education and what you are working with.
– in the Past it was clearer to academics voted right, and the workers voted left. Today voting in a radical academics left and a conservative worker vote right.
the Conservatives should now start to embrace their sakpolitiska position to the right of the middle in american politics. It is, inter alia, to strengthen the party’s military idéarv and develop moderate frihetsbudskapet. M should also be greater extent, ignore what the other parties think and, instead, to stand more clearly for their own ideas. Mats Green think it will attract voters, no matter where in the country they live.
” I don’t buy the image of that if we become strong in the rural areas so we will be correspondingly weak in the big cities. It’s all about back to basics and the moderate frihetsbudskapet, ” says Mats Green.
