It has been a little over three weeks since the Swedish people went to the polls and now government negotiations are underway for the upcoming mandate period.
Voters are not satisfied with the election campaign that is now over, shows a survey carried out by the opinion polling institute Ipsos on behalf of Dagens Nyheter.
Four out of ten describe the election campaign as bad or very bad, the survey shows.
This is a doubling compared to after the 2006 election, while the percentage who think the election campaign was good or very good has halved during the same period.
Voters don't like smears
Ipsos has also asked the respondents to assess how factual they think the election campaign has been - and there the answers point in the same direction.
40 percent of respondents summarize the election campaign as irrelevant or very irrelevant.
The survey is an indication that the voters dislike smearing and fighting, says Niklas Källebring, opinion analyst at Ipsos.
However, the survey does not provide an answer as to why one is dissatisfied.
- What we see in our surveys is a very unfortunate development.
All parties must think about what responsibilities they have and what they can do to give voters better election campaigns, he tells the newspaper.
The survey also shows that those who voted for M, KD.
L and SD are somewhat more positive about the election campaign compared to those who did not vote for a change of power.
Geographically speaking, residents in smaller towns and rural areas are also somewhat more positively disposed to the election campaign compared to those who live in larger cities, the survey shows.