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Liberalerna's emergency meeting draws over 200,000 streams

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  • The Liberal Party's emergency national meeting broadcast was started over 200,000 times on SVT Play.
  • This number is much higher than usual for political national meetings, including the party's ordinary meeting in November 2025.
  • The broadcast had more than double the starts of a recent press conference where the party opened to government cooperation with SD.

The broadcast of the Liberal Party's emergency national meeting was started over 200,000 times on SVT Play. This is a significantly higher number than broadcasts from political national meetings usually have. The meeting on Sunday received much attention for its major technical problems, but viewers streamed into the broadcast.

By Monday morning, the broadcast had 212,167 starts in SVT's internal measurement tool. For comparison, the Liberal Party's ordinary national meeting, held at the end of November 2025, had about eleven thousand broadcast starts on SVT Play. The press conference with Simona Mohamsson (L) and Jimmie Åkesson (SD) about a week ago, when the Liberal Party opened to sitting in government with SD, reached up to barely half of yesterday's numbers.

That broadcast had 82 thousand starts.

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