In 2023, the government appointed a committee to investigate the transparency of party financing. The task was to review the rules for anonymous donations and how parties report them, as well as whether requirements for consent from individual members should be introduced when it comes to financial support to parties from organizations on the labor market.
The committee has so far assessed that such consent requirements "could be strongly questioned from a constitutional perspective", according to a draft that Svenska Dagbladet has taken part of, but now – a month before the deadline – the government is coming with new directives.
I have been informed that the government intends to make a decision on additional directives for our investigation next week, confirms investigator Mats Melin for TV4 News.
If I understand it correctly, they want us to further examine how such regulation should look like on the Swedish market, says the investigator further.
Today, only the Social Democrats receive financial support from an organization on the labor market. S receives millions of kronor annually from, among others, LO.
The proposal that individual members could stop LO's financing has sparked irritation within S. Even LO has been critical and believes that this type of question is already regulated by the organization's statutes.
