Too much focus on tougher demands and harsher penalties. This is what Daniel Suhonen, CEO of the think tank Katalys, thinks about the content of the proposal for a new party program.
We already have a government with three bourgeois parties and the Sweden Democrats who are implementing such a very tough policy. Then the question is whether S has an alternative there, he says.
Daniel Suhonen thinks that the party program "demobilizes the own red-green base" and asks himself who on the red-green side will "get excited about this".
You can set as many demands as you want and raise penalties as much as you want. But society must also take responsibility. You can't leave people to their own devices, he says.
Demands economic policy
Suhonen misses formulations about what economic policy the party wants to pursue.
I see, for example, unemployment as a very big social problem right now. What should you do about it? Should people make themselves employable? Demand lower wages? Or should society get the wheels in motion and equip people for the jobs that are coming? The individual has very small opportunities to influence, he says.
The Moderate Party's chairwoman Annika Strandhäll is, on the other hand, more positively inclined.
This is Magdalena Andersson's first really important domestic political program and the Social Democrats' fifth party program in history. This is her opportunity to put her mark on the party ahead of the 2030s.
What I see as absolutely most important is that she leads the party closer to ordinary people again, she says.
Lifts working-class women
Strandhäll is particularly positive about the program lifting women in working-class professions.
It is primarily they who have gotten worse conditions. The party program points this out. It's about nurse assistants, preschool teachers, and nurses who every day build this country with hard work, she says.
Now an internal process within The Moderate Party's women's organization is waiting, where they will give their opinions on the proposal, which can be adopted at the Social Democrats' congress in May next year.
The Moderate Party's women's organization was, for example, against Swedish NATO membership, an issue that the party has swung on since the previous party program from 2013.
We will take an extra close look at where the party takes a stand on issues of defense, military build-up, nuclear weapons, and nuclear power, says Strandhäll.
