Simple Swedish Podcast - #334 - Riksdagsvalet 2026 (the 2026 parliamentary elections)

Episode Date: August 24, 2026

Den 13 september är det val till riksdagen i Sverige, och valrörelsen är i full gång. I det här avsnittet lär du dig om hur Sveriges riksdag och val fungerar, vilka frågor som är viktiga för väljarna, och vilka de olika politiska partierna är.  Och såklart - en massa vokabulär, så att du kan följa valrörelsen på svenska! Vill du läsa artikeln på lätt svenska som jag baserade avsnittet på? Klicka här och bli medlem på Simple Swedish Center! Där finns också en massa översättningar och tvåspråkiga transkriberingar, med nya avsnitt varje vecka!

Hello there and welcome, you be to Simple Swedish podcast. So, how much do you, have you had a good summer hithills? I have had a very good summer hittles, it has been handelceric, I mean, it has it has happened

quite much. I have, to example, gift me, and I have spent a, yeah, soon, two monas in Gutterborg,

my gamela hamstad. So it is, so it is treblet. And, yeah, in this this one, I, I,

about something something that's very relevant just now and that we have val. So,

what is it, the 13th September, I think, I must be call. The, the,

13th, September, yeah. Then, in the that the val that we we will you, the political parties

that we will will, we will, and it is a very important and also interesting to follow, and

specifically for you, who learn you in the Svskia, who will learn you more of Svary so is this a very very

a very to learn more about but it can be a little to follow

a a valrurel on Svanska but I think I would help you little

by the how how the here and the system with the and the and talk about the different

the other political parties and also so-clar go in-gienom relevant vocabulair

and I come here when I when I when it was a val in Chequen for, it was probably five, six

but I engaged me and and listened to and I came to know that it was, it was very, very interesting and unvendable for my for my firstolese of

the language, for my firstlough of landet and the culture and so when I sat me in in the the valet. So I think I should help you help you. Settar you in

in the whole lot of the whole lot. To sette in in something, it means that you informer to something, that you know, that you know, that you're going to, and so. So, okay, then we're going to. So, first and How, how much is

How much? So, first and first and first and first and first and the is, the Sweden, we call it for Ricksdagen.

And in Rikstam, there 349 Rikstadsledermota. And a Rikstadsledamot is a person who sits in

in the Rikstan and and new and the russedameter, also the russedermoters, they bestemmer also staten's budget, also how much

money, uh, swarege to all different things. And then, vart fjerd-year-old, then is it a val for rickstand. And it means that all,

and is 18-year-year, go and rusted in the Rikstasvalet, or you can't russed, so all-cars-not-not-rusted, but you should rest. It is a democratic-scied-hieldyet, I think, for that our forefathers have been hard for that we have the right-heighting

to can't, so I think it is important that you actually rusted. And you're rusted on a political party. So in Sweden we're not on a person, so we're not not on a president or something, but we rusts on a party. And a party must

to get to have 4% of the russet for to come in the rickstand. It calls for 4% sparrren. So, minst 4% of the roosters must a party have for to be in the rickstand. And then same day, so the 13th September now, so, so, also, politicaler to their community and

to their region. So, you're not just the Rikstan, but you also the local and the regional

political and the political. And after the then will it, then you can build a

regering. So, Regeringen, they are the who have the the landet. So one or other, flerer

so they will build a regering. So, those who winner the valet will build a and now for time, so for the

party, next, and a majorit and that, and that and that means a coalition to be a other parties

for to get a majority in the rickstand and can build a regering so. But, sometimes, you can

even a majority even with a coalition. And then can you can get a so-called minority regering.

But for that a minority's regina, so, so it's a support from other for to be able to steer, this is a little complicitate, but, to example, after the valet 22,

then we actually a minority regering. So we had parties, moderators, the Christemocrats, and liberalser. They builded a They had they had A majority But they found

They made From the Svarydemocrats For these Four paris'emortyern They They wrote a Aval So they came

Overreense How they Stier Landet And they came overreens on, okay, the you siter not in the government, but

they did not a slacks oftal for that the Swedgerdemocrats would stodial the minority regerings with moderators,

Christemocrats and Liberals. And the this here the here the government together with the

Svigemocratser they callas for Tidewepartierna. Tidepartier they, often on the and the parties, and then,

and then, the parties that not siter in the regeringen, those who not steer in landet, they call us

for opposition and after the vote 2022, so have we Social Democrats the Centipartier,

the Central Partiet, the, the, the, the left-the-the-the-the-the-the-the-court-the-cissION. Okay. Then, after-valet, then,

then, will the Rikstam-San also bestemma, who-as-ministers. So, it is, also, the Rikstan, who-S-M-Pestor, who-s-stats-minister, and not and the

and the so the guys who we who are we are valiary but we rusted you on parties so we

are not on people and and yes the stat's minister that is the person

with highst ansvour for to lead the landet also we have

you not president in the Sweden, but the has most might is but it is the rickstand who

who should be and oftenest is the party-leder for the first-st-regers-party and after the vote 2020 then was Ulf Christerson

the, Statsminister and Ulf Christerson is you, which is the party-law, which the biggest, which the biggest so it is, just now,

the landets states-minister, if you listen on this before 13th September 2016, so I don't know who who will be

the minister then. We'll see. Okay. So, And what are the the most now in the while-26? Now, now,

you know, how the rickstand function are, but in this valrurelsen, which questions are the biggest? And an val-rurelorelough,

it is, the time, now, inan the valet, when party-leaderns, and the vultingers' they're about, they're debaterers,

and there are there's reclame out of the state. Yeah, so this is the valrurlulsen, so we are in valrurlarsen

just now. So, which questions are important? So, I'm going through a little list here

with the important questions in for the finalet 2026. So we have,

for example, so, so, sovored, soxvore, also, if you have to go to the shucuset, if you'll be sick or scadadad, how fungering the sickvord. And a problem that we have is that it is very long cures in the wolden. It's longed cures. It's longed queues. It means that it takes long time to

to have help when you're sick and it's not there's not with personnel we need more personnel, more as people who

people who job are in the world. So how we can't we can't be? This is a problem that partiled the party-ledarer

debatererer we then we then we, then we, how we people are better result at the

proven so, for better kuntcap's level and get more and so in school

and then have we then we then migration so migration has been a stort

emmene the the the years, to how how strict we have? Will we

welcome more or fewer more more can't the craven be? Which

what? Crav we have for that people should for upbeholdshton for that people

for people should for people should be able to that, uh, tillstand to uphehulled to say in Sweden, so that you have a place in Sweden, you have

to have a place in Sweden, then it is upbeholds tillstown. Yeah, so this is a strong question. We have brottslihet, right, uh,

type of criminality. what what we do for we have for we have much problem in the with criminal

gang? Should we have stricter straff to example also straff to example

fengelsestraff um we should we set up 14 14-oereringing also we can't

olden for or should we or we have more polisers so there there are many different

things that politicians debaterer when it comes to brotsliet and so we

so we so we so we have been much much dearer to live in

Sweden so prices has stigit, prices has gone up, it has been so, yeah, people have rhod with more than before, so how we can we for better people's economy, should we husha skaters, can we sinka scatter,

which investings are, so the state is so, yeah, the economy is so-clart a lot, inflation, so on. Then we, the climate, so we have stricter climate-mol,

should we have stricter climate-mol than EU, to example? Should we have more or more, or more, charncraft, so, nuclear power.

So, they are a strong question also. They're talking much about chern craften. So, we build out then, so, should we have

more chern craft, or should we have a minor chern craft, and so. And every party has, so-clart,

their own own o'cicts, their own prioritings, their own ideology and so but so but about partier there so

which are parties then in Sweden and what are the different the other parties so just

now have we 8 parties in the rickstagon and it is oftenst same parties so And so,

they came in 2010 and since then it has been same parties in the rickstand. Okay, so, so, as said, in

the valet 2022, then did the new a new regering, a minority regering

with moderators, Christdemocrats and liberalser. So, they're not, they're not, they're notherners, they're nother. So these four parties, they call us for tidepartier for, as said. For that they've a little deal on how the regeringen should function after the the we, so we, so-Social-

the centre-partied, and the-Miloparty-Party- and Milo-Party-Party- in opposition. Okay, so little short about every party. And we begin

with Social-Democratser or Sussarna, as they also callas. And they are often the sturdest partied, and it is also of the

so they have long, like, like 130 years or something. They started it in the end of 1800thal so it's a

gammalt party and they have had a strong inverkan on inw over 1900thal

and they are stark associated with with the arbutterreraeralsenings and workerings. So, the workers' movement, factfereingers, workers' union, so, so, so, yeah, Social Democrats,

they got 30% in the ballot 2020, and they're talking often about wellfairden, also, and so on the they say often that they will setsa

more money and they will often high the for people who who are more

so they'll often have high and rickar people and people so.

And that they are little more to the Sussar the Sussarra is a lefter party, but they are not Jetervenster. So they're like, can you say, centre-ventser, can you say. And then have we, Swedenemocrats. And they became the next, sturdestest, part, in the valet, they got 21% of the rest of the.

and these SD they have the most the most restrictive migration politics they're very anti invandering

generally and they are often brotsliet to invandering so they're often about

all negative effects that are from invandering and so and they they've got more

in the last last because they are of the partier that's the government even if they not are directly in

the regerringen so then have we then we do moderators they got 19 percent and

oftenest are they're the next-st-ststern-stern-the-svary, and they are more on-hugher. And, yeah, and it that they want to sinka the, they want to have, they'll have lower-scatter.

So, right-v-v-v-vester, handler very much about scatter. So, are you higher, okay, you will have low-scatter, are you-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-vests? Yeah, then, then,

you have high and a very a very strong a very strong simplifying or what you say and they

they will also have more cherncraft they'll also have a harder for

brottslinger and so so yeah it was moderators then we then we then

we then we they got five percent the the they're, they're they're quite

politically, they they're a little more conservative when it comes to social social problems. But they're also they'll also have more cherncraft,

less shatter, and so. Then we, then we then, we then we're, the center party, and this party is traditionally much about land-being,

also, the that's not we have, we have, we have, like, the center partied is

always stort on land-bidden, for them they come from bond-ferenings and so,

it's also an gammalt party. But they, you know, on the nameet, that they

are quite much in midden when it comes to, to example, economy and migration and so. So, centerpartite, they are

maybe little, little, more to higher, but generally quite midden,

so. They got 7% in the valet 22. Then we then have we then,

then we, the partiet, and it is the partiet that's longst on

the left. So, they who are a little more extreme, and they're, that's the name, the Vestepartyet. And they will so-clart hush the they want higher-scatter, and they will

take-bort all winters in welfare, to example. And, yeah, it is a a classic, that's a so. they've got

six percent in the last year then we then have we the the and it

we hear we on the nameet that that that that the environment

is very very important for them and they are in new cherncraft

they are emote they in most in allmanness are they're relatively long-left-left-the-the-law-the-cester. I think it is the most left-left-partite. And then, they got 5% in the last year-state.

And a other party, who also took 5%, it is, then, liberals. And liberals, they are also quite much in the middle, but also a higher for that they want more than they're for charncraft they're also

very much for international international samearbeten as EU and NATO they are positive to evron they want that Sweden

in for the Euroon they think it is important and school and education and so on. But they have a strong risk to not come with in the Rikstan for that they can't not can't not carer four percent sparran.

For in opinion's-undercingsings have they only two percent. What would I mean to say? But that was well that was well that it will, also I hope that it will better for you to follow the Swedish valet after this. And you can see whole article if you are a member of Simple Swedish Center.

And yeah, I'll leave a little link to that and to little other things also, of resources and so, for to follow the valet and valerleraeralsen and so. Hopas you, think this this is anvendable, so we'll soon again. Have it so good.