Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist has said that she has invited the three so-called 'red-green' parties to the meeting in an effort to break the deadlock regarding the formation of a government in Sweden after a close election result.
According to Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, all three parties have accepted the invitation.
The meeting is intended to provide the parties with a shared assessment of the situation in Sweden; external actors, such as expert government agencies, will also participate.
Thand Ringqvist elaborates on this reasoning in an opinion piece in Svenska Dagbladet, in which she makes the argument that parties in other countries establish a shared situational awareness before they begin negotiating policy and allocating government positions.
"The parties will hear the same presentations and likely draw different conclusions from them—not only regarding what needs to be done but also regarding how the situation should be described," the article states.
"The Centre Party and the Left Party hold fundamentally different views on entrepreneurship, tax levels, and the market economy, and this will likely be reflected in how we describe reality," writes Thand Ringqvist.
"But that, too, is a result," she continues.
The opinion piece also notes that the Centre Party's "position that the Left Party should not be part of the government remains unchanged."