February 14, 2012
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More than 400,000 Swedes have already cast their vote for the 2010 elections, even though election day is more than 10 days away.
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Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.
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If I could, I would vote now, just need to know if it is possible.
My only decision is wether to vote for Center or Folkpartiet. The Center party appears to be the sanest out of a crazy bunch.
Center and Folkpartiet have strong anti-terrorist and anti-criminal views, unlike the other parties. They both are significantly more supportive of small business and new start ups.
Socialdemokratiska leadership stayed very quiet when the mayor of Malmö started his tirade against jews. Jews are the canary in the coalmine. They are forced out, then most likely we are all next, so I will not vote for social democrats. They are also a bunch of control freaks.
Vänsterpartiet, supported the Russian invasions of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland. They supported the Molotov-Ribbontrop and (Soviet Russia-Nazi Germany) and have never apologised for that. So no vote from me for people who find mass murder to be accepable.
Miljöpartiet do have some interesting policies, but they are not grounded in reality. The fact is, we need Nuclear power to keep down our oil imports and to diversify power generation.
Kristdemokraterna. To reactionary for my taste with to many religeous members.
Moderata samlingspartiet are OK, but cosy up to large business to much at the expense of small business. They have made small steps to helping small business, but need to make a lot more.
Sverigedemokraterna want to remove immigrants. I am an immigrant from Northern Ireland, so I would be removed along with everyone else from Europe and the USA, let alone anywhere else.
Piratpartiet are OK as a protest vote, but I want the schools, hospitals, etc to work well, so will not vote for them.
Yes everyone can vote early - usually the early voting pollig station is at the local library - but there may be other places
@Spyronic
SDs policies on biological gender roles and reduced rights for homosexuals seem to suggest a return to the 1950s - yet they appear not so keen to talk about these in public