SVT’s new poll suggests that the Left Party’s demand for cabinet seats has strong backing among its own voters, but is not an absolute limit when the government deadlock is framed as a practical choice. In the scenario put to respondents, 62% preferred an S-MP-C government supported from outside by V to either a snap election or an M-KD-L-C government backed by the Sweden Democrats.
That matters after Sweden has gone more than 60 days without a new government. The Left Party can reasonably point to another result in the poll: more than 90% of its voters preferred a four-party red-green government including V when that option was available. Eight in ten also said the party’s demand to join the government was a good one. The demand plainly has substantial support.
But the findings also make it misleading to portray participation in government as voters’ absolute red line. When respondents had to choose among a government without V, a snap election, and an SD-backed alternative, a clear majority chose for V to support S, MP and C from outside. Six in ten also considered it a good idea for V to allow such a government to take office if it secured important parts of its policy in an agreement.
That does not hand the party leadership an automatic mandate to drop its cabinet demand. A poll cannot settle which concessions a deal would require, nor whether S, MP and C could agree on its content. It does, however, weaken the claim that any settlement without V ministers would necessarily defy Left Party voters.
Indikator Opinion conducted the survey for SVT from 9 to 12 November among 1,659 red-green voters. The supplied material does not give the size of the Left Party subsample or a margin of error for that group. The result is best read as evidence about the trade-off posed in these questions, not as a forecast of the party’s eventual conduct.
Source: SVT, https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/v-valjare-hellre-regering-utan-vansterpartiet-an-extraval
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- SVT Nyheter · Source date: 2026-11-12
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