It won't be easy, but I'm convinced we will solve it, says Simona Mohamsson.
The Liberal Party's national meeting decided on Friday that after the next election they want to continue with M, KD and L in a bourgeois government, which cooperates with SD in the Riksdag. They will not support a government that includes SD.
But SD leader Jimmie Åkesson is clear: the alternative of a new Tidö Agreement – it does not exist. SD demands ministerial posts, otherwise the party will go into opposition.
Who has to back off?
- I think it is reasonable that the party that is currently ten times smaller than our party is backing down on it, he says.
- Then a lot can happen in an election campaign, of course, 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 parties that are small will 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 speech to the national assembly on Saturday, Mohamsson made it clear that Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson is the Liberals' 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 politics and that we will continue with very liberal politics if we get four more years," Mohamsson said 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.
