It was when the party leaders of Sweden's two largest parties in opinion polls debated the question of how open Sweden should be to receiving asylum seekers that Åkesson lashed out at Andersson.
Because even though Andersson believes that Sweden should be "a little less open" than today, based on the question, that does not match how the Left Party ("a little more open") and the Green Party ("a lot more open") see things, according to Åkesson.
It is not credible when the Social Democrats say that, regardless of what Magdalena Andersson says here, she does not have her partner parties with her on these issues. Magdalena Andersson cannot promise anything until she gathers a team and jointly decides on a direction, says Åkesson, who thinks that Sweden should be "much less open."
Magdalena Andersson goes back to 2016 and points to the shift in migration policy that Sweden implemented when the Social Democrats and the Green Party were in government.
"There is very broad support in the Swedish parliament for us to have a strict migration policy for people coming to Sweden. And it was we Social Democrats, when the Green Party was also in government, who implemented the major migration shift," says Magdalena Andersson.
