No, exactly. It says something on your chest card. The chest card, if you look back at it.
Okay, thank you very much.
Bye bye. Wait here.
Thank you, teacher.
How I thought.
That didn't really go down for it. Bye.
I think that I go behind here when it wants to take a new one.
But we'll finish it.
Thank you very much. Bye bye. I think 85530.
Where should you be somewhere? Eh, yes, you can't vote there.
No, where do you live in Strängnäs? Yes. And then you should probably... No, you must. Yes, actually you should do it, but you can't be at the advance voting station 50 meters further ahead and leave.
Yes, then it counts on Wednesday. But that's fine. That's fine. Otherwise you'll have to go. Yes, because then it counts tonight if you're at one place.
But can we save this one? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Leave. Yes, but how good. Look at the voting card, what it says. If there's a school or... Yes. Yes, but that was it. But I thought you could go here.
Per Olov Svensson.
Thank you very much.
They have it here in this list here, and then they will find the right vote.
You can't vote again. Four years.
Hello.
Matä.
That's great. Back to the closing. Oh well. Oh well. Here.
Thanks, thanks. Bye.
Little kin.
Thank you very much.
Have you received help for the first...
Yes, exactly, or you can fold it in maybe. Okay.
Thank you very much.
Nice to see you.
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Check on it, then it will just be wrong, filled with the iron. Exactly. Hey, run 10.
Yes, perfect. You wait, you go in behind the voting booth here, just a moment, you will...
to... is it closer to it. I think there is...
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Shall we take the protocols? Thank you very much. Anna.
I just want to say that the media is on its way now. If there is anyone who really doesn't want to, you can hide in the group. They will broadcast here, TV4 and... Yes, exactly.
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Oh well. Do you have a colleague over there? Great. She starts there then, or you start here. No, you start there. You start here.
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Oh, the interest in the election in Strängnäs has never been like this.
Börje.
Bye bye. I am.
Yes. Yes, you just have to vote. Yes, right. Can't vote for Jakob. Yes, or [laughter] take your cards.
Thank you for that. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
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Oh well, hello everyone, welcome to Strängnäs. As I said before, the election in Strängnäs has never attracted as much attention as today. Now there are seven days, seven hours left to vote, so that honesty always pays off and crime always gets punished. If you feel unsure, you can vote now. If you voted wrong, you can vote again. So it's a really nice election campaign, I think. A fun election campaign, an exciting election campaign, important policy issues in the center, and quite obviously we have gained momentum these last few weeks. So it's a very, very exciting evening to follow, I think. Nice to be in Strängnäs and vote.
Good. Then we'll move a little bit away so we're not in the way of people who are going to vote.
We'll stand here. Then we'll take them one at a time. We'll start with TV4, which is two minutes.
Starting with Strängnäs Tidning. This one should have hope. We'll start with Strängnäs Tidning. They are ready. No.
Okay, we can just one minute. Okay. Prime minister.
Yes, but now we'll take these first. Prime minister.
The campaign is over. How do you feel?
I feel great. I'm very hopeful. We had a great campaign, an enthusiastic campaign, extremely important topics on the table, and I think we are in a good position to be able to win this election.
How do you feel about the comeback you made in the polls just a few weeks ago? You were far away, now the polls are very tight. Well, it's not that complicated. I have told colleagues of yours all the time that polls are polls, you know, and it's actually the election result that really counts.
And all those who think, you know, if you think you are winning because of good polls, you are not winning. If you think you are losing because of bad polls, you are losing. So I was quite convinced that eventually the two real alternatives would be kind of compared and contested, and I think we have won on that comparison.
Thank you. Thank you. Now we have a live interview with TV4 over here, and I'll ask you to move back just a little bit. Thank you.
So I have with me Ulf Kristersson, who just cast his vote. I can guess where he cast his vote.
Yes, we have voting secrecy here in Sweden. We do have that. Kristersson, now your fate is in the hands of 8 million Swedes' votes. Do you feel that you have done the very most you can to take care of this?
Yes, I feel that. I feel that on my own behalf and above all on the party's behalf, we have had a fantastic, fine election campaign. Both fun, as an election should be, intensive, many meetings, many door knocks. Yes, but very nice, I think. I think we got the policy issues in the center in the end and the government alternatives in the center in the end. So I feel that we really have done everything we can for that.
And what is the mood going to be like?
Yes, well, the mood is good. It has been that way now for several weeks. I think you have felt that too. We have momentum on our side. But now we have to wait for the result. After all, there are still seven hours of campaigning left in some places around the country, so nothing is decided, everything is decided.
This could be your last day as prime minister. You may have to lead a transition government if you should lose. But is there anything you feel you haven't ticked off that you must do now in these last seven hours as prime minister of Sweden?
Yes, but that's not how you should think about it. You don't take any victories in advance, nor any defeats in advance. My work is that you are prime minister around the clock, all the time. That also includes my election campaign.
It may be difficult after the election to see who is the winner today, given how the advance voting has looked. But if you get to continue as prime minister, how easy will it be for you to form a government, so to speak?
No, but if the blue-and-yellow team wins, it will be easy in that sense. We know what we want. We agree on the direction, and then it is always difficult to negotiate an entire government program. You have to negotiate an entirely new government. That is not uncomplicated. It is perhaps harder than you think, because you don't usually see much of it. We'll do it in peace and quiet, and then we'll come out with a joint result, and that will be the case this time too. It's a bit different if the other side had some kind of mathematical majority to push through the Centre and the Left's tax policy. I wouldn't recommend that.
We thank the prime minister. Strängnäs.
Thanks. Then we'll take Strängnäs Tidning.
Of course. Ready.
You actually had the chance to just have first Strängnäs Tidning. Anna. Yes.
And everyone else will get an interview. So just stay calm. Hello there. Hi.
Yes. How does it feel to cast your vote here in Strängnäs?
Yes, but it's always a solemn occasion, I think, to vote. I always vote on Sunday. And it's extra fun to do it at home in Strängnäs, of course.
And which issue do you think will be pointed out as the most important in this election campaign in hindsight?
You can't know. But I would say, there are reasons why I have said that this is a choice we make between two completely different views on fundamental legal issues. If I had to pick two, I would still say that the mortgage tax and the mass deduction are, I think, clear examples of the very large differences between the blue-and-yellow side and the red-green side.
And which election promise do you feel most confident about being able to implement if you get the chance to govern for four more years?
I think all the election promises we have put forward are very realistic. We don't promise things that we don't feel very sure we can implement. 93% of our promises from the last election have been implemented or started. So we take such things seriously. We can compromise, we can negotiate, we can prioritize. That's usually what makes it possible to deliver.
And if the election result is weaker than you hope, what responsibility do you take personally? Will you step down as party leader?
I don't plan for losses. I plan for victory.
Thanks. Thanks. Shall we take you here?
Yes. Kristersson has become tighter in the polls, and you know that the Sweden Democrats are in government. Do you have 12 ministers?
I have said throughout the election that government negotiations about exact priorities, exact government declarations, and exact ministerial posts and departments — those come afterwards. We have a saying in Sweden that you shouldn't sell the skin before the bear is shot, and I intend to apply that. It was the same in Norway too. There was a discussion in Norway a year ago during the election campaign between Frp and Høyre about who would take the prime minister post.
How important has it been for you to have that post?
It's quite obvious, because everyone knows that you can only become prime minister if you can bring parties and voters together for joint action, a joint majority, joint action. And I have shown over the year that I can do that. I have understood that all parties would actually like to form their own government. But on my side, I am the one who can bring the party together for joint action.
We were at the election campaign finale with Jimmy Åkesson in Kungsängen yesterday. It's a different political culture we see in that party. Are you ready to form a government with them?
All eight parties in Sweden — quite simply, there are different party cultures in all parties. We can agree on eight budgets together. The previous government lost three of eight budgets. It's completely different. We have proven our ability.
Thank you very much.
Yes, so today it will be decided whether you get to be prime minister for four more years. How does it feel? Are you nervous?
I'm not the nervous type, really, but it's a bit tense, of course. It's an important day, a solemn day. Today it is the Swedish people who decide Sweden's political future. So, but I feel confident and have good hopes for tonight's result.
So if the Tidö parties win this, what do you see ahead of you? What will be the hardest questions when you sit down and try to put together this new Tidö government?
I don't think there is any single issue that is hard. Negotiations are always hard. I usually say that we are eight parties in the Swedish parliament and no one is even close to a majority on their own. It is only we who have the ability to compromise, but in a definite common direction. And that, I think, you have proven over the last four years. Because it will be... then it's harder sometimes, perhaps, to understand that it's not exactly the same thing. You discuss properly, and then we will also...
How does it look with Plan B then, if you should lose and the Moderates make a bad election, what do you draw conclusions from?
No, in an election campaign you work to win. I am completely... the people's vote.
But it will be like a vote of confidence in you in a way, this election. The prime minister is always... it's not... it's not...
It looks even in the polls, and you have recovered in the polls. What do you think this recovery is actually due to? How would you explain it?
I'm not so surprised. I said already in '61 that when the alternatives are really set against each other, when all these pretend alternatives that some have hoped for — alone Social Democrats who lose every time they go up, they kind of disappear, and they have disappeared. There are two important sides against a weighted... and then politics is tested. Formis. Social Democrats, Left.
And we have won a lot.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Reers.
How hopeful are you for tonight?
Yeah, I'm hopeful. I think we have a great campaign. Actually, all these six, seven weeks, but not least the last weeks, has been fantastic. I think we have made an enormous job together. I think there is a genuine enthusiasm for us being able to continue our important work.
And looking ahead, if you win or lose, it will be tight anyway, which means it will be difficult to have a majority in parliament.
How do you see it?
If we win, my team wins, it will not be that complicated. We have been doing these negotiations for four years. Consecuations.
As always, do manner, no, at all. If we win, very proper negotiation for the next government program and for the next budget and for the next cabinet.
If the four parties on the other side, in some kind of technical sense, win, they will need to be able to combine socialist economic...
Have you seen any interference in the election so far?
As we have not, and I'm quite sure that our civil servants and agencies working with that would be very alert if they had seen any signs of that. So I think we have had a fair and just election.
Thank you very much.
Quick question for Reuters: Could we say you feel confident today after voting?
Confident? I mean, I'm very... I'm hopeful. I have a good feeling. We've had a good campaign, but obviously no one can be confident because, you know, in some hours' time we will have a more or less final result, perhaps later this evening or perhaps in a few days' time. So it depends on how narrow... I have a very good sense of... very hopeful, and I have a good feeling.
Do you have a vision on the negotiations that would come afterwards?
Vision? You know, we are so well prepared. We have been negotiating for four years. We have prepared and confirmed eight consecutive budgets. So we know what we are doing. So I think people also rely on that. They know they will have an experienced cabinet with experienced ministers, parties that are well prepared for negotiations. But in that, I'm very confident.
And how difficult will it be for you, do you think?
I mean, you know, we have eight parties in the Swedish parliament, and no party is even close to having a majority of their own. So the precondition for getting things done is actually the ability to compromise, to have a clear vision but be pragmatic in the steps you take. And I think we have shown that for the last four years. And if we get the people's votes, we will continue to do that for the coming years as well. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
And you have 1342 with us driving there. No, but we can drive now. Drive now. Okay, we're recording. Coming. Drive.
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