Then the debate turned to the Sweden Democrats' actions on Thursday, when the party called in two former SD members to ensure that the Tidö parties would not lose the vote on transitional rules for stricter citizenship requirements.
SD leader Jimmie Åkesson defended the action by saying that two former SD members, political mavericks, intended to vote against the party line, which, according to Åkesson, would not be in accordance with the election results.
“Complete nonsense”
Then he suggested that the Green Party had influenced the political mavericks before the vote.
"I don't think it's reasonable to go to these mavericks and buy them off. Amanda Lind must tell us what was given to these mavericks under the table," said Åkesson.
That got Green Party MP Amanda Lind fired up.
"What are you buying then?" she said.
"This is complete nonsense. Keep an eye on your own mavericks. We haven't negotiated with any mavericks. Stop making false accusations."
Otherwise, the party leaders maintained a much calmer tone and avoided interrupting each other to a much greater extent than during the SVT debate last fall.
It then went so far that Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's press secretary demanded after the debate that Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar's microphone be turned off when she was not speaking.
It was a terrible debate last time.
"It was a much, much better tone this time," Kristersson says afterwards.
Busch not happy
Åkesson became angry during the debate when Dadgostar interrupted him in the immigration debate and wanted to raise painful deportation cases.
"Wasn't I the one speaking? I've waved a lot and then it seems like you can still shout out loud," said the SD leader.
Afterwards, he thought the debate was better than last time.
"Then I think Nooshi Dadgostar fell into the old rhythms again at the end when she interrupted," Åkesson says.
Nooshi Dadgostar does not want to talk about the tone of the debate this time.
"I think we should move on now actually. I think people want to know what the differences are between the right and the left, that's what this is about," she says.
However, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (KD), Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy Ebba Busch, was not entirely satisfied with the programme hosts' performance on Sunday evening. She became upset when the debate turned to nuclear power and she was not given the floor.
"I pointed out quite strongly that I was not allowed into the nuclear power section, since I am the one appointed to lead the nuclear power program for Sweden," she says after the debate.
