Stella Kaufman at a conservative conference, April 2019

Stockholm (KTN) — The leaders of The New Right and the Conservative Party have agreed to form the New Conservative Coalition on Saturday as an opposing bloc to the governing Alliance of Social Democrats. Opposition Leader Nicole Chancellor and Conservative leader Stella Kaufman signed an agreement to form a coalition together ahead of the 7 July general election. The decision to do so comes after years of polling suggested that The New Right, the Conservative Party, and the Centrist Democratic Party needed to form a coalition in order to form a majority government. In 2016, The New Right was created after a split between conservative liberal Giovanni Giletti and national conservative Nicole Chancellor. At a conservative conference on Saturday, Kaufman stated that the two parties "[came] to a mutual understanding that [they] need each other in order to defeat [the Alliance of Social Democrats]".

Despite forming the new coalition, in-house polling has consistently showed that The New Right and the Conservative Party will not win enough seats to outnumber the Alliance of Social Democrats and will need the support of a third party such as the Centrist Democratic Party. While the Centrist Democratic Party is generally cooperative with the Conservative Party, its membership in Parliament have historically been hostile toward the notion of an alliance with The New Right, especially under the leadership of Victor Cutter, who resigned in March to run for President of the Valkyrian Republic. Bradley Murphy, the new leader of the Centrist Democratic Party, has so far sidestepped journalists' questions on forming a partnership with the Alliance of Social Democrats or a coalition involving The New Right.

During the conservative conference, the Leader of the Opposition said that the New Conservative Coalition "is a viable alternative to the current government and will be tolerable to other conservative opinions". These comments come after years of verbal attacks towards the other two right-wing parties. When Jonathan Victor and Victor Cutter respectively led the Conservative and Centrist Democratic Parties, Opposition Leader Nicole Chancellor was persistent in calling them "fake conservatives" and claimed that their presidencies of Qvait "led to the decline of conservative leadership" in the country. Since Kaufman's election as leader of the Conservative Party in December 2018, the opposition leader has courted her support as the two leaders may need each other after the 7 July general election.

With the right-wing parties in Parliament one step closer towards having the capability to form a government, the leadership of the Alliance of Social Democrats are now concerned that the current government could be toppled after the 7 July general election. "For years, the ASD has relied on conservative infighting to stay in government," an official from the Alliance of Social Democrats says, "but now that The New Right and the Conservative Party are rallying together, they only need the support of one more party (the Centrist Democratic Party) to go head-to-head with [the Alliance of Social Democrats]". The official stated that the Alliance of Social Democrats will now need to "work harder than ever" during the general election in order to stay in government for another three years.