Two weeks ago, Busch became angry after Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) promised SD influence over migration and integration in a possible Tidö government after the election.
She emphasized that M and SD cannot settle on ministerial posts on their own and she has said in interviews that it will be "costly" if there are government negotiations with all four Tidö parties.
The more the others negotiate away before election day, the better negotiating position KD will be in after the election, Busch tells TT.
If M is to be able to fulfill his promise to SD, KD wants to be paid to agree to it.
Requires freedom from quotas
An important KD demand in any government negotiations this fall will be to completely abolish paternity leave within parental insurance.
"We want completely free parental insurance. Away with all quotas," Busch told the media at the KD Days in Jönköping.
In addition, she wants to extend parental insurance by 30 days.
According to her, this will be one of KD's most important election promises. Busch expects to get it through in any government negotiations if the Tidö parties win the election.
Busch points out that KD has all its negotiating capital left, while the Liberals (L) and the Moderates (M) have already made promises to SD on their own. In addition, SD is aligned with KD when it comes to parental insurance.
“Totally off”
For L, however, paternity leave is an important equality issue.
In a written comment to the newspaper ETC, Minister for Equality Nina Larsson (L) calls Busch's proposal "completely off".
"The father's months have strong support among the public," Larsson tells TT.
She thinks that KD's policy on this point is wrong.
But they have every right to push their proposals.
The KD leader counters that the main inequality today is not about women wanting to stay at home for a few more months with their small children, but about poor wage development in female-dominated professions.
TT: Aren't you creating a bad atmosphere in Tidö now?
"It's more important to have integrity and backbone than a good atmosphere," says Busch.
However, she emphasizes that, in her opinion, the greater threat to women who want to be at home more with their young children is if the red-greens win the election. More paternity leave months would become a "quota trap" that would hit working women's finances hard, warns Busch.
