Why this year's Swedish National Day will be bittersweet
In this week's podcast: new citizenship law takes effect, a plan to end Sweden's teen deportations, toddlers who speak better Swedish than you, and Minnesota's Swedish heritage.
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In this week's podcast: new citizenship law takes effect, a plan to end Sweden's teen deportations, toddlers who speak better Swedish than you, and Minnesota's Swedish heritage.
According the party preference poll by Statistics Sweden published today, the Liberal Party doesn't make it over the four-percent threshold to stay in the Swedish parliament as it currently gets just 2,5 percent. The centre-left opposition parties also get larger support in comparison with the governing parties and the Sweden Democrats. The difference between the blocs is 12,6 percentage points. The party preference poll is published annually and shows what the election result would have been, had an election been held in May 2026.
Ahead of Sweden's next big round of collective bargaining, several employer groups in Swedish industry say the economy is developing worse than previously expected. They have cut their growth forecast for this year, from about 3 to just over 2 per cent, and say there is no space for wage increases similar to the last two rounds of collective bargaining, when union wage demands rose to just over 4 per cent. Industry employers organisations Teknikfรถretagen and Industriarbetsgivarna speak about economic uncertainty, while trade unions in the industry sector have no plans to lower their wage demands.
Almost one in five young adults (18 per cent) hesitate to start a family due to the housing shortage, according to a new survey by the Tenants' Association. Four years ago, that number was just 4 per cent. Fewer municipalities report an overall housing shortage, compared to four years ago, but it is the affordable housing that is scarce, according to the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning.
The Jรคrvaveckan political event ended over the weekend and representatives of all parties in parliament have now held their speeches. The Moderate Party representative spoke about the right to own your own flat and the Sweden Democrats spoke about freedom from violence, crime and too much meddling by the state. The leader of the Liberal Party promised a 'culture day' for school children in socio-economically vulnerable areas, to go visit a theater for example, while the Center Party leader in her speech focused on overcrowding and the housing shortage.
The lead Sweden's opposition parties have in the polls ahead of September's election is widening, according to the latest poll from Indikator Opinion done on behalf of Swedish Radio News. The opposition parties are now at 53.9% against 44.2% for the governing parties and the Sweden Democrats. The Liberals lost another 0.4 percentage points in the latest poll, falling to 2% which is far below the 4% required for representation in the Riksdag. The government needs some sort of game changer to turn things around ahead of the September 13 election, says Indikator's head of opinion Per Oleskog Tryggvason.