Promising very concrete things in the election campaign has paid off for the government, according to both Anders Lindberg, political editor-in-chief at Aftonbladet and Alice Teodorescu Måwe, bourgeois writer and social debater who is a guest at SVT's Morgonstudion before the party leader debate in the Riksdag on Wednesday.
- If you go so hard in the election campaign, it creates expectations.
If you don't have the conditions to fulfill those promises, it will be a problem the day it is put to the test, says Teodorescu Måwe.
- If you make such promises, you almost have to blame yourself when people come and ask: "Where is my electricity subsidy?", says Anders Lindberg.
"Dancing on a Volcano"
Lindberg summarizes the government's first time in power as lousy from an opinion perspective.
- Right now we are in an intermediate position - when it comes to wallet issues, you dance a bit on a volcano - there was an inflation figure of 10 percent, people can't afford to buy food.
I would think the government will fall a few more notches before this is done.
Alice Teoudrescou Måwe emphasizes that, unlike the former, it is a government that governs on its own budget:
- It is a stable government in the sense that there is a majority for its politicians.
We must not forget that as an important factor in avoiding the string of crises we had with the red-greens.
Here it is a government that has a common ambition.