Thursday's party sympathy survey from SCB shows that M and SD are backing the most among the parliamentary parties and that the opposition's lead has grown to nearly 13 percentage points. This with just over a year to go until the parliamentary election. The Moderate Party leader says he is not, however, worried.
We are the strongest Swedish government we have had in ten years. But tough times usually lead to the sitting government losing ground while it is easy to sit in opposition, says Ulf Kristersson to TT.
”Does not want to return”
He believes that there is strong support for the government's policy – and for the government to "continue to get order on the problems".
The Swedish people do not want to turn back to the policy that has created the problems we have.
On Thursday, the Constitutional Committee (KU) also criticized the Prime Minister and the other party leaders in the government, who have been accused of ministerial rule by the Green Party, which has filed a complaint. This after a debate article where the Tidö parties highlighted that measures should be taken to prevent more Swedish citizenships from being issued – already before a new law that will tighten the requirements for citizenship comes into force.
Kristersson brushes off the criticism. He does not agree that the parties went too far in their formulation.
The article clearly shows that we are extremely concerned that dangerous people should not become Swedish citizens. We did it in a completely correct way, he says.
”Does not belong”
The Constitutional Committee's chairman Ida Karkiainen (S) reacts to the Prime Minister's statement. In a written comment to TT, she says that the Constitutional Committee unanimously found that the government representatives' actions in the case "contravene fundamental principles of how our country should be governed".
”It's about something as central as the demarcation between politics and administration – where ministerial rule does not belong,” she continues.
Karkiainen further writes that "we expect the Prime Minister to take this criticism seriously".
