Key Decisions from the Social Democratic Party Congress

The Social Democratic Party's party congress has during five days, addressed guidelines for a new policy, a new party program and over 4,000 motions. Here is a selection of decisions made in different areas.

» Published: June 01 2025

Key Decisions from the Social Democratic Party Congress
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Healthcare, Education, and Social Welfare

Prohibit profit-making in preschool, school, and upper secondary school

Binding requirements for teacher density, class size, and student health care

Special government grants to enable schools to meet the requirements

Profit-driven operations in welfare services should be severely limited

Abolish the right to establish tax-funded welfare services in private operations

Appoint a "take back control" inquiry into privatized welfare services

The use of staffing companies in healthcare should be severely limited

Dental care should gradually receive high-cost protection similar to healthcare

Government grants to welfare services should rise in pace with cost-driving factors

Economy

Abolish the sickness benefit deduction

Increase the child allowance

Increase the grant portion of student aid

Fare-free public transportation for those under 20 years old

Make the temporarily increased housing allowance permanent

Higher tax on capital income

Option to reduce working hours after a long working life without a worse pension

Higher pensions through increased pension contributions

Loan-financed total defense fund to arm the military, transportation, and healthcare

State investment bank for strategic investments, such as AI technology

Working Hours

Shorter working hours for all are needed

Should be negotiated by unions and employers

Crime

Lower the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years for serious crimes

Special mafia law to punish gang leaders without being able to convict them for specific crimes

Limit the lives of gang criminals with travel, contact, or business bans

Social services should be able to identify young people on the path to criminality

Crime prevention measures for children should start from the age of five

Introduce risk family programs

Defense

Train 20,000 conscripts per year

Migration

Should be long-term sustainable and strict over a foreseeable period

Swedish asylum rules should be in line with the EU's minimum level

Integration

Goal (without a specific year) that no areas should be disadvantaged

Language requirements should "in principle" be demanded for citizenship

Language initiatives during working hours for language-deficient staff in healthcare and schools

At least 75 percent of school education should be in Swedish

Limit the influx to vulnerable areas for persons living on social benefits

Abolish asylum seekers' right to arrange their own accommodation, the ebo law

Newly arrived immigrants should not be placed in municipal districts with vulnerable areas

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