The Sweden Democrats demand to be part of the government if the bourgeois parties win the next election, but it is not entirely popular with all the Tidö parties.
I have all respect for all parties wanting to form a government. But I have proven that we can get a government base together and that we are stable, said Kristersson in the Aktuellt debate between the two prime minister candidates.
But if the SD becomes the largest Tidö party, the party leader Jimmie Åkesson wants to become prime minister, he has said. Andersson emphasized this.
If the opposition parties win, it is I who get the question. But if the Tidö parties win, it is a question of whether it is Ulf Kristersson or Jimmie Åkesson who gets the task of forming a government, she said.
"Everyone on my side knows"
At the same time, the Left Party has demanded a place in the government in a potential S-government, which does not go down well with the majority of Center Party voters according to SVT's figures.
Andersson left that door open.
If the opposition parties become the largest, it can also create new opportunities for cooperation with different parties that now cooperate in the Tidö government, she said.
Kristersson countered:
All parties on my side know that it is I and The Moderate Party who have the conditions to gather a majority. You can ask the other parties too.
You will never get a functioning majority together.
The party leaders also debated the war in Gaza and households' economy, where Andersson meant that the government is acting in panic in its autumn budget after having "completely failed with the economy for three years".
The government inherited an inflation of ten percent and an economy that was in "free fall", said Kristersson.
Pointed to Russia
An initial question concerned the drones that, among other things, disrupted the airport Kastrup in Copenhagen on Monday.
We cannot rule out that it is Russia. But we do not know, so one should not point out anyone yet, said Kristersson and continued:
But if you put together what has happened in Poland, Romania, Estonia, and now also Denmark and Norway, then it is a series of events that we take very seriously.
