The newspaper has reviewed the over 3,000 motions submitted by members of parliament during the autumn. Exact formulations that have previously appeared in other sources reappear in several hundred of the motions – and at least 57 members have backed motions where texts or proposals are plagiarized, according to DN.
One example is the Centre Party's sports policy spokesperson Anne-Li Sjölund, who has submitted a motion to parliament on VAT taxation of horse racing for two years in a row. The majority is copied from a text published on the website of Svensk Travsport.
Moderate Lars Püss proposes in a motion long-term financing of infrastructure, but fails to disclose that both parts of the text and the proposals are taken from the Industry Council.
Social Democratic member Isak From has written five motions containing plagiarism. In one, which deals with Ukrainian refugees' right to student aid, large parts are a copy of a debate article in Expressen written by a Ukrainian refugee.
In the regulations for motion writing to parliament, there are no provisions for source references or prohibitions against plagiarism.
