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Mohamsson: “Without the Liberals, it will go completely to hell”

From Svenska Dagbladet · () Swedish

Translated from Swedish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Sweden’s Liberals reached 4.3% in the latest TV4/Novus poll, their first Novus result above the parliamentary threshold since 2022.
  • Party leader Simona Mohamsson said the increase reflected voters seeking to preserve the center-right, blue-yellow cooperation and urged them to vote for the Liberals.
  • The party remains below the threshold in other polls, and Novus said it was not statistically certain that the Liberals had actually crossed 4%.

Sweden’s Liberals have climbed above the parliamentary threshold in a new TV4/Novus poll, but party leader Simona Mohamsson is not easing off during the final week of the campaign. The party stands at 4.3 percent, its first Novus reading above the threshold since 2022.

The rise has been rapid. Three weeks earlier, the Liberals stood at 1.9 percent. They then moved to 3.3 percent and now 4.3 percent. Mohamsson believes voters are calculating how to get the greatest effect from their ballots, with some choosing the Liberals to preserve the blue-yellow cooperation.

Without the Liberals, there will be a red-green government.

· Simona MohamssonThe Liberal leader attributed the party’s polling rise to voters seeking to prevent a left-green government.

“Without the Liberals, there will be a red-green government,” she said, arguing that many voters fear that outcome. Asked whether she was encouraging Moderate and Sweden Democrat voters to support the Liberals, Mohamsson said she urged anyone who wanted the cooperation to continue to maximize the impact of their vote by choosing her party.

Novus chief executive Torbjörn Sjöström offered a similar reading. He said the Liberals had not strengthened their ownership of any particular policy issue, but that their message, that the Tidö cooperation stands or falls with the Liberals, appeared to have reached voters.

Without the Liberals, it will go completely to hell.

· Simona MohamssonThe phrase appears in the party’s campaign messaging about the consequences of failing to clear the parliamentary threshold.

The picture differs sharply among polling firms. Novus is currently the only institute placing the Liberals above the threshold, while the party received 2.8 percent in the latest SvD/Demoskop poll. Novus also issued a caveat: the increase is statistically significant, but it is not statistically certain that the Liberals are actually above 4 percent.

Mohamsson said the result had not made her relax. “This does not mean in any way that we are letting up, but we feel the tailwind. And we feel that the gap is now narrowing.” She added that she remained worried about what Sweden could look like on September 14 if the Liberals failed to enter parliament and the blue-yellow cooperation did not receive another four years.

This does not mean in any way that we are letting up, but we feel the tailwind. And we feel that the gap is now narrowing.

· Simona MohamssonMohamsson said the Liberals would continue campaigning despite their improved Novus result.
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Originally published by Svenska Dagbladet in Swedish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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