There are 95 days left until the election and the temperature is rising in the election campaign. In the Riksdag's last party leadership debate before the summer recess, Ulf Kristersson attacks the opposition, which is currently leading significantly in the polls.
The election this fall will be a choice of direction, he says.
Either stay the course, continue to get Sweden in order, and build a country where effort always pays off and where crime always gets punished. Or change direction as the red-green parties want and raise benefits, increase asylum immigration, increase foreign aid and let hard-working families pay, says Kristersson.
He warns of "higher taxes for those who work and higher contributions for those who do not work."
Kristersson also points out that deadly gang violence has been halved during the mandate period and that asylum immigration is the lowest in 40 years - and compares this to what it was like in 2022, when they took over from the red-greens.
Sweden became more dangerous. It was serious crime and extremely deadly gang violence that made Sweden known abroad.
He also claims that the red-greens "raised or introduced 46 different taxes in eight years."
My question to the Swedish people is therefore this: Can you really afford a red-green government?
