Åkesson: L must back down on the government issue

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Åkesson: L must back down on the government issue
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SD will not accept being excluded by L from a possible new Tidö government. The L leader states that it will be up to Ulf Kristersson to resolve the conflict if a government is to be formed after the election.

It is up to the prime ministerial candidates to get a proposal through that has a majority in the Riksdag, says Simona Mohamsson.

It won't be easy, but I'm confident we'll figure it out.

The Liberal Party's national meeting decided on Friday that after the next election they want to continue together with the M and KD in a bourgeois government, which cooperates with the SD in the Riksdag. They will not support a government that includes the SD.

But SD leader Jimmie Åkesson is clear: SD demands ministerial posts, otherwise the party will go into opposition.

"I think it is reasonable that the party that is currently ten times smaller than our party is backing down," he says.

Then, of course, a lot can happen in an election campaign, but if we have the same parliamentary conditions as now, it is reasonable that we, as the largest party in the base, also be part of the government, and that the smaller parties can buy it.

Not backing up?

Mohamsson gives no signals that L would back down if the situation becomes so deadlocked that an extra election is approaching.

These are our demands for our mandates, she says.

In her national conference speech on Saturday, Mohamsson made it clear that Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is the Liberal Party's candidate for prime minister. She also praised the Tidö collaboration and thanked Kristersson for "leading the most liberal government since Ola Ullsten."

She also thanked Åkesson for the government's ability to reform the unemployment fund and hopes that SD and L will include nationalization of the school in a possible new Tidö Agreement after the election.

Is liberal politics

I would say that the Tidö Agreement is liberal policy and we will continue with very liberal policy if we get four more years, says Mohamsson at a press conference after his speech.

The Liberal leader is asked why she cannot sit in the same government as Åkesson.

I think it is best for Sweden if the Tidö cooperation continues as it is today, says Mohamsson.

It is important to have a bourgeois government and a bourgeois prime minister. Åkesson is not a bourgeois party.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) made a quick visit to the L:s national meeting on Saturday.

It is a privilege to be prime minister in a team that likes to work together, he said.

Kristersson did not go into the conflict between L and SD.

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