"The power play has only just begun for SD"

SVT's documentary Maktspelet describes via the Almedalen and an intense election campaign the road leading up to election day for above all the Sweden Democrats and the Left Party.

Before the election, both parties were singled out as decisive cogs in Magdalena Andersson's and Ulf Kristersson's various government constructions.

And so it was.

Without the Sweden Democrats' successes, Ulf Kristersson would not have been able to call himself prime minister today.

SD's joy appears

The documentary Maktspelet shows the Sweden Democrats' joy over the negotiated Tidö Agreement a few weeks after the election.

At an internal meeting, SD's party leadership states with satisfaction that they have got their entire migration policy through.

A paradigm shift, one says.

Most analyzes of the Tidö Agreement also point to the settlement as a great success for SD.

Not least when it comes to the agreement on migration policy.

Here, it is clear that the SD has gained influence for its demands.

That SD had such a large influence on the Tidö agreement is quite natural.

SD's electoral success made the change of government possible and SD also became the largest party in the government constellation.

Without ministerial posts, the party could also demand compensation for further substantive political influence.

Won the first round

The Sweden Democrats thus have every reason to be satisfied with the successes in the Tidö Agreement.

But writings in an agreement do not win new elections.

It is the implementation of the policy and how the voters perceive this that is decisive.

SD may have won the first round, but there are more to come.

And for the Sweden Democrats, it is not only about showing results in migration policy, even if that is the party's most important issue.

It is also about criminal policy, another core issue, and of course petrol and diesel prices, where the party has long promised sharp reductions.

This autumn's debate surrounding the government's proposal for lower taxes for petrol and diesel shows how important it is to deliver on one's election promises.

And how easy it is that an issue that was previously an asset can become a burden in the eyes of the voters.

Dissatisfaction in own ranks worst for SD

The fact that the political opponents are critical may not matter so much.

It belongs to the political game.

Worse for SD is the dissatisfaction in its own ranks, not least in the countryside, that the price reduction in the budget was only a fraction of what was talked about in the election campaign.

In the area of ​​migration policy, the Tidö Agreement contains a number of far-reaching proposals for tightening.

Before these can be carried out, in most cases investigations, ministerial processing, referrals and in several cases also legal council review await.

Could be a dispute over several points

All these parts of the process contain opportunities to influence, change and delay a final product.

And expect that there are several points in the Tidö Agreement that other parties in the government cooperation would like to try to stop.

It can be about interpreters in care, conduct review for residence permits and a national ban on begging to take a few examples.

So the Sweden Democrats should be just as happy at the end of the term as when you satisfactorily sum up the Tidö agreement in SVT's documentary, there are still several political battles to be won.

The power play is not over.

It has only just begun.

Watch the entire documentary "Maktspelet" on SVT Play.