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Dilemma in the Swedish political scene as Premier Reinfeldt continues to remain strong despite his party weakening while the Social Democrats leader power remains a nightmare

Sunday, 06 January 2013
The challenge for the Swedish opposition party, the Social Democrat is how they can weaken the current incumbent Premier, Fredrik Reinfeldt, though not much is being done for their own leader, Stefan Löfven to improve his standing with the Swedish voters.
Poll and poll shows that Fredrik Reinfeldt is increasing his lead in the popularity contest with is rival, the leader of the Social Democrats, Stefan Löfven even though voters support for the parties are the opposite.

Two out of three Swedes believe that Fredrik Reinfeldt, leader of the Moderate party, (M) is more skilled to run the country than his opposite number, Stefan Löfven. This means that though the pubic may not be happy with the Conservative Moderate party and its coalition, they are also not happy with the leader of the opposition to lead the country if an election was held today.


Fredrik Reinfeldt Swedish Premier	Stefan Löfven leader of the Social Democrats

This comes from the latest opinion poll conducted by polling organisation, Skop where it interviewed people to test how the Swedish people perceive the leading Prime ministerial candidates.

Thus, Reinfeldt has even pulled away from his rival and increases his lead to 2.8 percentage points - that is over half, 57.6 percent of the voters leaning towards him. The voters contend that it would have been nicer and more fun to seat at a party if they were sitting at the same table with Fredrik Reinfeldt, compared to 42.4 percent who would have preferred to sit with Stefan Löfven. Though there, Reinfeldt, pulled away by 3.0 percentage points.

The greatest support for Stefan Löfven comes mostly from the Social Democrats and Left Party. There was also a large support for Stefan Löfven from the members of the worker Union, LO but the overrall support there has fallen more from 55 to 45 percent according to Skop.

Fredrik Reinfeldt has been a worrying figure within the Swedish political scene creating disorder within the Social democratic leadership - knocking down all the Social Democrat leaders starting with the victory of his party over Goran Pearsson some 7 years ago. Then he has crushed Mona Sahlin and ended her career, which saw the emergence of one Håkan Juholt. The Social democrats could not breathe with Juholt being crushed by the party's internal squabbles and Juholt's own personal indulgences. He too was knocked off and the Social Democrats were left confused and with no body looking as a leader to stand up for the most feared Reinfeldt and a Swedish voting public that was beginning to shift from the core Social Democrats principles of higher taxes and more welfare.

Then, only 13 percent believed in Juholt over Reinfeldt. Shortly thereafter, in late January, 2012 Juholt resign and Löfven hopped in.

Stefan Löfven's popularity started rising straight shortly as he took over office in February / March last year 2012 and his popularity hit something more 50.3 percent over his rival, by April 2012 he started dropping and stood at 42 per cent and since then he has not caught up again.

Such a situation has also been seen in the UK where David Cameron though not really doing well economically and politically, still lead the leadership table over Labour's leader Ed Milliband.
By Scancomark.com Team

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