I guess my next question is what are these coalitions claiming to do about it, exactly. Also, generally, what is the position of the party that is currently in power? Other than the fact that I assume they have failed to respond to this, I mean.
That is is a great question. Especially since there doesn't seem to be a firm plan what to do if this improvised new coalition would take power.
Plus we must acknowledge that the election victory of such a coalition isn't certain (especially since some people may jump "off the ship" in that case) . The things is also that the currently ruling center right isn't as much of a miss as it seems from the story thus far. If we consider how many crisis this party solved or went through and the country still exists then the record isn't really that bad. Not to mention 4 years of fighting the de-nazification in the 90s, the process that looked pretty much as it looks today 2023. However the fact is that we can actually use some imported new workers, the only question is will the importing stop at one level. Because if it does then the whole thing will not blow up. The fear is that corruption or something will keep the doors open. While other economic numbers like debt level are in positive, so it isn't that the system is out of any control. The system is simply new to mass immigration and that is what is creating certain tensions that can be exploited by opposition.
Also our current ruling coalition involves about a dozen political parties, center right is just by far the largest. However I previously presented the coallition as a single party just to keep it simple, since most foreigners get confused when they see 10+ parties ruling together. Therefore it is kinda questionable who is exactly to blame for all the screw ups. While the center right has a task to keep this coalition working since that keeps pro western orientation of the country. So this ruling coalition is basically a giant having a seat majority by being friends with a dozen dwarfs. In a typical western multi-party democracy parties are going on elections individually. While here they can glue themselves and go on elections basically as one party. But they can unglue before the next elections. Therefore in general the political system is good for supporting large number of parties in the parliament. So it can be hard to guess what exactly will happen. US has trouble guessing that even with just 2 parties, so when you have 20+ of them in the parliament it can be quite hard to guess the future.
In other words the center right is often under extra attacks simply for being the most pro western party out of all relevant ones. This party is simply our main link towards EU, US and NATO and people who hate those hate the party. So all judgments here aren't fully objective. After all EU in consultation with our ruling coalition has decided that over the next few years it will give us one our entire central budget worth of money. Just to help with keeping this pro western coalition going due to strong pressure. For example if you write something nice about USA on my local forums the odds are that some people will think you are a troll (or an idiot). So the same goes for the party that sees USA as close friend. This is exactly why I said that you can't rule out geopolitics in this mess. After all the ruing coalition is currently ousting Russian banks out of our strategic corporations. What was made possible due to sanctions against Russia, since that melt away most of their influence. So if the anti-western coalition doesn't win the east is more or less ousted from these parts. This is kinda why some are trying to make this unnatural coalition described few posts back. Since this is perhaps their only hope and it will probably be tight in 2024. However through multi-party system we are currently making new parties that could support the pro-western coalition. Since such parties can attract new voters or disappointed voters, while still giving them the place in the ruling coalition. In general the ruling center right coalition is implementing: the green new deal, it gives you socialized healthcare (even for immigrants), free college, dislike for anti-vax stuff, you get a month of paid leave every year, there are various other welfare programs, gun ban, there are some anti eviction laws, they legalized gay marriage ... fairly progressive agenda by US standards. But here even that can be called "neoliberal". Once you try genuine Communism everything else looks kinda neoliberal next to that. This sounds like a joke but it is true.
I mean I tried to keep things simple but the fact is that my local political system is quite complicated by the standards of most countries. So going into details can be confusing. While keeping things simple doesn't really show the full picture.
