Well, the system is similar as in the there as been sort of two major blocks of party (the social democrats(red) and the moderates(blue)) with them having minor partys join their coalitions in order to have power, the party that openly and strongly was against immigration was officially excluded from any coalition until now.

Regarding making it a direct query for the people, only 6 query's has been done directly to the people and these are not legally binding, see the handling of changing to right side traffic (was voted against and ignored) or the great query of how to handle nuclear power in which the options were, yes cease further expansion immediately and dismantle power plants as the demand of power allows, yes cease further expansion immediately and dismantle power plants as the demand of power allows and all power plants of importance should be owned by the state , yes any power plant that is not currently in active use should be scrapped and the rest within 10 years.

This combined with usually social cost of merely asking for limits in regards to immigration could be argue have coerced people quite a bit. On the other hand you could argue that not enough demonstrations were performed to counter this.