Democrats (Gothenburg political party)

The Democrats (Demokraterna) is a local political party in the city of Gothenburg, represented in the city council since the 2018 elections with 14 (out of 81) seats, the largest after the Social Democrats. The party was formed as a centrist, cross-party coalition in 2017, aimed at halting construction of the West Link, a major railroad tunnel construction slated for completion in the mid-2020s but which has been extremely divisive among the population of Gothenburg. After the 2018 local elections, the Democrats held negotiations with the right-wing Alliance for Sweden parties aimed at forming a coalition, which collapsed when the Democrats refused to budge on its central question and the coalition parties refused to consider dropping the project.[1][2]