The Center Party had one of the main roles during Wednesday's eventful day in Swedish politics.
The party chose to release a Social Democratic prime minister, but was not prepared to support the government's budget, which meant that the budget from M, KD and SD instead went through.
The reactions from both the Green Party and the opposition have been strong.
- We are deeply disappointed.
We perceive that their actions depend more on political play, says MP's spokesman Per Bolund.
The Christian Democrats' party leader Ebba Busch believes that the center, with today's decision, has given both parties on the fringes influence.
- They release a prime minister who has negotiated with the Left Party and a budget that we have developed with the Sweden Democrats, says Ebba Busch.
- They are difficult to understand, I must say.
If they had wanted to, they could have voted for a bourgeois government, but they did not want to, says Ulf Kristersson in Aktuellt.
"The government should have calculated"
But Martin Ådahl does not agree with the criticism of the party's election.
- The chaos is not caused by us, he says and continues:
- We voted on our budget, we have a responsibility to stand for our policy.
We opened to refrain from practice if the government chose to tilt the budget to the middle and kept the extreme parties away.
Ådahl thinks that the government should have calculated that support from the Center Party was excluded in the negotiations with the Left Party.
According to him, C still wants to see a settlement in the political center.
- They are looking for an active collaboration with V for several weeks.
Then everyone can calculate that we do not deviate from 30 years of practice and clean up after this mess that others have created, says Ådahl.