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As stated in the topic, what is the biggest issue in your country?
This is the serious version of this other topic in the less serious forum.

For my country, Sweden the issue is the very complicated parliamentary situation that we're in.
We have the following 8 parties in our parliament. The letters in parenhesis are the acronyms for the parties, and I'll be using them for my text.

• Vänsterpartiet (V), The Left Party
• Miljöpartiet (MP), The Green Party
• Socialdemokraterna (S), The Social Democrats
• Moderaterna (M), The Moderate Party
• Folkpartiet (FP), Liberal People's Party
• Centerpartiet (C), Centre Party
• Kristdemokraterna (KD), Christian Democrats
• Sverigedemokraterna (SD), Sweden Democrats

The parties are commonly grouped in the following ways:

• The Red-Greens, S, MP, V
• The Alliance, FP, C, KD, M
• The Sweden Democrats, SD

The issue here is that neither bloc got a majority, and that neither bloc wants to co-operate with SD becasue of their extremist politics.
S got the most votes this year, and got to form the government. The thing is that the leader of S chose to form it with MP, and to leave V outside it to try and co-operate with the more left-leaning parties of the Alliance. This gives the government a meagre 138 out of 349 spots in the parliament.

Sometime this week, the parliament will vote about if they approve of the new government. The government has to not get a majority AGAINST them, without needing a single vote for them. If the Alliance and the Sweden Democrats vote against the new government, the whole process will have to be redone from the beginning. If this happens three times, the election will be redone from the beginning.

V has said that they will abstain from voting, so as to not hinder the new government from ruling Sweden in an effective way. This is however still not enough to secure that a vote of confidence passes without issues.

I am confused as to why there are two identical threads in different subforums..

I am confused as to why there are two identical threads in different subforums..

One's for serious news, one's for less serious ones. Look in both threads, and you can see the different things I've posted in there.

Hmm. Curious.

Wow. How many times has the Swedish Parliament had to re-do this process?

If I had to pick an issue, it would be the spread of the Enterovirus throughout most of the country and the escalation of symptoms associated with that virus. It's suspected that it's a contributing factor to the paralysis of several children, though we don't currently know why yet, and the virus has claimed its first casualty, a ten-year-old in Rhode Island.

We also had our first diagnosed case of Ebola in the country from someone that traveled here from Liberia, but I think the Enterovirus issue is bigger at the moment because of the unknown nature of this virus.

I agree, the Enterovirus is probably a bigger threat than Ebola to the US at the moment. The Ebola patient is in double-secret lockdown/isolation/quarantine, and so is everybody he's had contact with. I suppose it might be possible for a small outbreak, but I doubt we'll see anything serious.

Wow. How many times has the Swedish Parliament had to re-do this process?

The approval of the government went off without a hitch since nobody but SD voted against it. The opposition abstained to vote to not plunge Sweden into parliamentary chaos.
The next big hurdle for the government is to get their budget passed, which will be a much bigger issue since a couple of the oppostion parties has their own budgets to bring forward. The government will propbably have to abdicate if they don't even get to rule the budget.

Ah, budgets. Good luck with that. Our government shut itself down for a couple months last year over budget debates...

Ah, budgets. Good luck with that. Our government shut itself down for a couple months last year over budget debates...

Hehe. I hope that they won't shut down, like you guys did

The outrageous media bias towards UKIP is one of the biggest issues in the UK right now. As well as the politics of fear that Nigel Farage deals in.