With only a month left until the election, the Center Party is putting its foot down in the government issue.

The party can imagine being in government with the Social Democrats, says C leader Annie Lööf in an interview with DN.

She also believes that Magdalena Andersson (S) is the best prime ministerial candidate.

- I see that Magdalena Andersson has the necessary leadership, she says.

No budget cooperation with V

She emphasizes, however, that C presupposes "a policy anchored in the middle" and that budget cooperation with the Left Party is not relevant.

- C is a bourgeois liberal center party.

We will still not have any organized budget cooperation with V. We are open to continued cooperation across the block border.

It is based on a future prime minister being sensitive to where the political majority is, she says.

Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson says she does not want to discuss specific government alternatives, if she gets the chance to form a government.

- I will not set up different lockdowns, but I am open to different forms of cooperation in a government constellation, both a coalition government or a pure social democratic government, she tells TT.

Faces criticism from several quarters

The Left Party's party leader Nooshi Dadgostar calls Annie Lööf's demands absurd.

"She can't believe that she would sit in a government on our mandate but not cooperate with us?

No, Sweden needs a majority government, then V is included if SD is to be kept away from influence," she writes on Twitter.

Even from the bourgeois parties, where M-leader Ulf Kristersson is a candidate for prime minister, there are not unexpected critical comments.

"It is good that the Center Party has now put its foot down and clearly explained to the voters before the election that a vote for C is a vote for the red team.

Now C will negotiate property tax and business with V and the conditions of the forest and the countryside with MP," writes M's party secretary Gunnar Strömmer in a text message to SVT.

The Center Party's Youth Union (CUF) also expresses disappointment and does not stand behind its party leader.

"We are going to the election as an independent liberal party and should support the alternative that implements the most C policies.

A bourgeois liberal party must keep the door open for more government alternatives," the youth association tweets.