election night party

I’m eating apple pie with mom, Kirke and Dries, waiting for the votes to be counted.

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Later: I’m not feeling particularly happy this evening. But the food turned out great, anyway.

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Election night depression with champagne, captured by Dries:

(For those of you who aren’t updated on the results of the Swedish elections, here’s a brief summary: in the national elections, the right wing coalition lost to a potential left-green wing coalition. Great, in my opinion. However, the left-green wing coalition will probably not be able to get a majority in the parliament, which means we’ll have the very impractical situation with a minority government. Also, the Sweden-loving, immigration-skeptical, grass-root-racist party the Sweden Democrats got 13 percent, more than twice its size from the last elections. While the feminist party only got 3.1 percent, meaning it didn’t get into the parliament. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH SWEDEN?

Slightly comforting is that in Stockholm municipality, the left-green wing coalition probably won (if the social democrats can cooperate with the left and the feminists), the green party got 11.1 percent, making it the third largest party, the feminists got 7.2 percent and the Sweden Democrats only 6.7.

Still, I feel dejected.)