The Social Democrats have presented their draft for a new party program. It gives, among other things, criminal policy a much larger place than in the latest version from 2013, and the party advocates for a stricter instead of generous immigration policy.
Jonas Hinnfors, professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg, says that the program is certainly different compared to 2013, but that it does not differ much from the party's guidelines adopted at the congress in 2017.
This is a kind of codification of what we already knew. You don't go much further than you did in 2017.
Party leader Magdalena Andersson says that it is a renewed Social Democrats that are going to the election. But according to Hinnfors, the draft is close to the policy that the Social Democrats went to the election with both in 2018 and 2022 – where the Social Democrats changed their immigration policy after the refugee wave in 2015 and a few years later also their criminal policy. He describes the changes, however, as a shift that was "pretty radical" for the Social Democrats.
But the change has actually already been implemented. You can see it in the concrete proposals that the Social Democrats have come up with in recent years, he says.
