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Duokai, a.k.a. Johan
duokai
06 June 2009 @ 01:28 pm
Election special  
Yay, it's another election coming up! (Hey, bear with me, I'm Swedish. Having the opportunity to participate in elections outside September every fourth year is still a novelty for me.) Which means funny test results for the shameless election geek that I am. And yes, [info]nighteevee, I've already used my voting privilege, so don't worry. Although had I known it would be possible to actually vote in advance at my uni this last week, I wouldn't have had to walk through half the town to the library voting station the week before. Oh well.


So to sum these fun tests up, I'm left/green in Germany, green in Finland, conservative/liberal in Sweden, and whatever I feel for in Denmark. While I should apparently not vote for conservatives in Germany, and greens or left in Sweden.

Political right-left scales makes such sense, no? Or you could just say that Swedish politics are weird I suppose. Welcome to the land in the mirror-world.

(And no, I didn't vote in accordance to my #1 Swedish result.)

Germany:

http://event.faz.net/wom/euro/main_app.php
(SPD = social democrats, Die Linke = left/ex-communist, Grüne = green)

Sweden:

http://www.dn.se/fordjupning/europa2009/vad-ska-du-rosta-pa-i-eu-valet-1.869858
(Kristdemokraterna = christian democrats, Folkpartiet = liberal, centerpartiet = liberal, socialdemokraterna = social democrats (yeah, you probably figured that last one out yourself))

Finland:

http://special.hbl.fi/valmaskin/
(De Gröna = green, Vänsterförbundet = left)

And Denmark:

http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Temaer/2009/Europa/Stemmesedlen/Stemmesedlen.htm&start=testdineholdninger
(Radikale venstre = centre, socialdemokraterne = social democrats, Venstre = liberal, Det konservative folkeparti = conservative)


On a different, but actually somewhat similar topic, an excerpt of a morning conversation:
Me to my dad: "Is it some kind of holiday today since you don't get any morning newspaper?"
Dad: "Yes, it's Sweden's national day."
Me: "Oh..."

I know it is the D-day anniversary, and I know it is EU election day tomorrow. But remembering my own country's national day... Why should I do that?
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Eevee: I be political - Dagsnytt 18[info]nighteevee on June 6th, 2009 12:15 pm (UTC)
I thiiiink the SPD would be more like Labour. And I wonder how the hell you've managed to score that high with die Linke (who are Almost Real Commies) in one land, and the Christian Democrats in another.
Duokai, a.k.a. Johan[info]duokai on June 7th, 2009 10:20 am (UTC)
Unnecessary long personal analysis follows
You mean you don't like my designation of SPD as "socialist"? If so, you're probably right (especially since I for some weird reason just labeled the ex-communists "left"). I tend to be clumsy in my labeling sometimes. Most likely I was thinking in European parliament groups when I wrote that. Ought to change, maybe.

It's not the first time I get high results for die Linke ex-commies actually. Back when they had national elections I could explain away the result as being due to me harbouring such radical communist views as thinking that free speed on the Autobahn was a bad idea. As for this time I'm less sure of the reasons, but I think it might have something to do with my answers for the economy part - pressing corporations to take responsibility for their own actions instead of getting hand-outs with no or little obligations and all that. Which ironically could be interpreted as me being labeled an ex-commie sympathizer because I think the big corporations should live - and die - by their own free market rules not only when it fits them.

As for the Christian Dems, the analysis is easier. It's probably a combination of my pro-EU values (which basically disqualifies most of the centre-left side in Sweden for me) and the fact that they have been given the "correct" answers and weight on the environmental issues, which are the current fad in Swedish politics this year. While not many questions was on the issues that I don't agree with them on.

When I finally got an even funnier, heavyweight test (hey, you can actually get to see ALL the European parties there, that's my idea of spending my evening in a good way...) to work, I got more "normal" centristic results for me, by the way. Somewhere between FDP and SPD in German terms, that is.
Eevee: Yuki getting political[info]nighteevee on June 7th, 2009 10:47 am (UTC)
Re: Unnecessary long personal analysis follows
Well, you're not wrong as such since Labour theoretically is socialist. I just have the impression that they're more centre-left in most countries these days, and so found the label to be a bit odd (particularly when you slapped the far more vague "left" on the clearly socialist Linke).

The pro-EU argument explains a lot, actually. Not that my insight in Swedish politics is anything like it should be, but compared to the Norwegian parties, it does make sense.