Potential Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says 3 parties will cooperate with Sweden Democrats
Three center-right parties in Sweden have agreed on a minority coalition that will include the Swedish Democrats parliamentarian, giving the far-right party direct influence over government policy for the first time.
Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson said on Friday he would form a government with the Liberals and Christian Democrats after the right-wing bloc won the narrowest majority in the country’s Sept. 11 election.
Sweden’s largest right-wing party, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, would not be an official member of the coalition but agreed to help shape its policies in exchange for its presence in parliament, Kristersson said.
The government’s mandate through the electorate meant that “replacing is only necessary, replacing is also possible, and we, the 4 parties, can offer this replacement,” said the leader of the moderates and most likely the next prime minister in Stockholm.
Kristersson met with the parliament speaker on Friday and set a confirmation vote, which he is expected to win, for Monday. Only the 4 right-wing parties have a majority of only 176 seats in the 349-member parliament.
The new government’s 50-page coalition agreement proposals for tax cuts and limits on social benefits, but they also carry great weight in law and order, with plans to crack down on criminal gangs. It also aims to build more new nuclear power plants.
The Sweden Democrats’ direct role in politics marks a historic shift in Swedish politics and would have been unthinkable less than a decade ago, when no dominant had anything to do with their leader, Jimmie Åkesson.
Founded through neo-Nazis and other far-right activists, the party shed many of its most excessive elements and moved into the mainstream under Åkesson, who became leader in 2005 and oversaw its rebranding.
His good fortune echoes the progress made by other far-right parties across Europe. Although their voting actions have not necessarily been higher, particularly in recent years, they have become increasingly normalized, accepted through the electorate and classical parties.
The procedure has been reinforced by the willingness of the dominant right to cooperate with them and the inability of the left to unite opposed to them, analysts say, as well as by the largely successful efforts of the far-right parties themselves to detoxify. your image
Åkesson told reporters on Friday that he would have liked to have closet seats for his party, but said he supported the deal that Sweden’s Democrats would reshape Swedish immigration and corrupt justice policies in particular.
“For us it has been decisive that a substitution of force is also a paradigm shift in immigration and integration policy,” he said.
The new administration aims to make it harder for new immigrants to get benefits, while police will crack down on criminal gangs and sentences for gang offenses will be longer.
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It also proposes imposing a national ban on begging, opening up the option of sending prisoners to serve their sentences abroad, introducing a Crown witness programme and prevention and search areas, and the use of video surveillance.
“We will do a thorough review of the entire criminal code, with more serious consequences for violent and sexual crimes,” Kristersson said on Facebook. Sweden’s foreign aid target is 1 per cent of the gross national source of income through a constant sum.
Under the agreement, the Sweden Democrats will have the right to appoint officials to key government positions, while collaboration with the tripartite coalition will be ensured through a new “cooperation structure. “
The party’s message that most of Sweden’s problems, consistently coupled with higher levels of gang violence, are due to the country’s overly beneficial immigration policies and its inability to integrate the “new Swedes” struck a chord with many voters.
The Sweden Democrats won 20. 5% of the vote in last month’s election, surpassed by outgoing Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats, who have governed Swedish politics since the 1930s and remain the country’s largest party.
Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch said new nuclear reactors would be built after Sweden shut down six of its 12 reactors in recent years, with the Social Democratic Party opposed to nuclear power.