The party congress is to decide on a new party program, new party political guidelines, and over 4,000 motions.
The party executive committee proposes, among other things, to abolish the deduction for sick leave in the sickness insurance, increase the child allowance, and make it possible to reduce working hours at the end of working life without the pension being worsened.
Profits in preschool and school should be prohibited, government grants to municipalities should increase automatically, and society should "take back control" of welfare by significantly reducing profit-driven activities.
These are proposals that are expected to receive strong support. It is unusual for the party executive committee to be overridden on essential issues at a party congress.
It's common for the party executive committee to lose something. It remains to be seen, says Andersson.
Taxes and Welfare
As usual, there are many motions to increase taxes, for example, on wealth, inheritance, gifts, and properties. The party executive committee says a clear no to this. Instead, they want to see a "fair" tax reform, but only provides information about increased tax on capital income.
Economic policy is always a hot debate, says Andersson.
Many want to debate how much should be invested in defense, infrastructure, and welfare – and how. The party executive committee proposes, among other things, a defense fund and an investment bank.
It's not enough, but the basic proposal is not bad, says SSU's chairman Lisa Nåbo.
It's something that recurs in several issues – that the delegates are fairly satisfied, but want to go further. For example, there are many motions that want to ban profits in the entire welfare sector, not just in schools.
It's clear that a very large part of the party is tired of our common funds flowing away and thinks it's now the right time to take action. You don't have to be left-wing radical to think that what we pay taxes for should go to the common good, says Nåbo.
Crime and Migration
The party executive committee proposes tougher measures against criminals, for example, through travel bans, contact bans, and business bans. But there are voices that think the party sounds too much like the Tidö parties.
For example, Skåne, the largest party district, believes that S competes with the government to be the toughest and thinks that more focus should be placed on how to prevent young people from becoming criminals.
