Speaker’s surprise move could advance government talks

Giving Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist an exploratory mandate now was an unexpected move by the Speaker of Parliament, SVT political commentator Elisabeth Marmorstein writes.

The decision reflects how deadlocked the situation is and how firmly the Centre Party is sticking to its red line against ministers from the Left Party. Testing the party’s preferred centrist solution seriously may be what is needed to get the process moving forward, Marmorstein says.

SVT says the conclusions in the analysis are the journalist’s own.