The four party leaders - Kristersson from the Moderates, Ebba Busch from the Christian Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson from the Sweden Democrats and Simona Mohamsson from The Liberals, met around the kitchen table at the house to thrash out their plans.
"We of course agree that our four parties should cooperate for at least one more parliamentary term, but we also agree on the direction," Kristersson said at a press conference after the meeting. "We're now looking to the future, and we have as I said, a plan."
The plan, he said, would focus on "growth, integration, and everyday crime"
Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson, however, pointed out that the Liberal Party was still resisting a future government that includes ministers from his party.
"We are not in agreement on how we should cooperate after the next election, but we are entirely in agreement that we will cooperate on,” Åkesson said.
Mohamsson said that she saw the meeting as the first step towards "a new Tidö Agreement", repeating the situation where ministers from the Moderates, Christian Democrats and Liberals form the government, with the Sweden Democrats supporting it from the outside.
Åkesson is adamant that this is not a possible solution, and that his party will either be in opposition to such a government or part of it.
Recent opinion polls show the government parties catching up with the left-wing bloc led by the Social Democrats, which have had a lead over the government parties ever since the general election in 2026.
In the most recent poll by Demoskop for Aftonbladet, the left-wing parties had a lead of 4.1 percentage points, down from 5.7 percent in October.
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