Left Party to resume coalition talks, sources say
The Left Party has agreed to return to talks with the Social Democrats, Centre Party and Greens, according to people familiar with the discussions. It is keeping its demand for cabinet seats.
Several sources told SVT on Tuesday that Centre had asked the party to return to the negotiating table. A Left Party source stressed that resuming meetings did not mean abandoning its demand to join the government.
The party had stopped attending planned meetings after Magdalena Andersson proposed a cabinet of Social Democrats, Centre and Greens on Sunday, with the Left Party cooperating from outside. Centre’s opening to Ulf Kristersson as prime minister had also changed the basis for those meetings, deputy Left Party leader Ida Gabrielsson said.
The Left Party’s press office told Dagens Nyheter that it attends every meeting to which it is invited. Centre’s party secretary Hannes Hervieu described Andersson’s proposed three-party government as interesting, with the next discussion concerning policy.
The reported return restarts contact between the four parties. Their central disagreement over who would sit in the cabinet remains unresolved.
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