« In ten years Ebba Busch has changed Swedish politics »

« I’m as surprised as everyone else, » an unhappy Penilla Gunther told SVT.

It was high summer and election campaign 2018, and KD’s then energy policy spokesperson tried to understand his party leader’s new play.

Ebba Busch had just opened for new Swedish nuclear power in a live broadcast debate. Contrary to what was agreed on in the energy agreement, where KD was still part of the Moderates, the Center and the S-MP government.

The whole thing is typically Ebba Busch, in several ways.

The KD leader as now Celebrating ten years at the top has the habit of testing first and asking the party later, severe throws you have to get used to. Sometimes it gets good, sometimes bad. Sometimes the Bible Belt is more upset than otherwise. During the evening for the party leadership debate in 2018, many in the party heard from the energy policy spokesperson confused, what is going on?

The beginning of a new political block, Gunther could have responded.

One year later, in 2019, Ebba Busch opened to collaborate with the Swedish Democrats, contrary to their previous commitments. No SD cooperation even in the long run, as it was called in the election campaign the year before. Not even in 20 years, which she clarified in interviews.

Now she released the « anxiety of the other parties », as her own strategists put it. And it was perfectly okay to eat meatballs with Jimmie Åkesson and talk politics, although SD was a party founded by Nazis.

Ebba Busch’s confidence figures shot up and a new conservative block began to take shape

Ebba Busch’s confidence figures shot up and a new conservative block began to take shape.

The nuclear issue would Become the kit in the new political project and the 2022 election campaign. On our side, we agree, as the prime ministerial candidate Ulf Kristersson (M) said. But it was Ebba Busch who had led them there.

By being first out with both new nuclear power and SD collaboration, Busch has succeeded with the art piece to give the Christian Democrats, whose core selector base does not reach the parliamentary block, six ministerial posts.

The party’s nicer free cemans sees themselves as the winner with KD’s new slogan Care – Everyday – Values. But in ten years, Busch’s rhetoric and focus on hard issues have changed the party and moved it right. Backed by a strong KDU Falang who knows how to take a seat in municipalities and nomination committees.

Yet it is not The Christian Democrats who have changed most during Ebba Busch’s party leadership. The entire political playing field has been reversed, and has become a place where several parties find it difficult to find homes.

Certainly she has had the help of the Swedish Democrats and Jimmie Åkesson. But the royal maker in Swedish politics is spelled Ebba Busch.

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