The S leader does not want to answer who she would want in the government if the red-greens win the election.
A few days after the interview, the Center Party announced that she was their “most likely” candidate for prime minister. The Left Party and the Green Party also have her as a candidate, provided they get a place in the government. But the Center Party does not intend to support a government that includes V.
"If I am allowed to probe, to try to get a majority behind me, or at least not to have a majority against me as a candidate for prime minister, I will be prepared to cooperate with parties in different ways," says Andersson, who only rules out cooperation with the Sweden Democrats.
Losing the lead
SCB's party sympathy survey would - with around 100 days left until the parliamentary election - give S, V and MP a majority of their own if there were an election now. The question for S is: how will the party avoid losing its lead on election day on September 13?
"We will fight every single day," says Andersson.
She speaks of "enormous pressure" in the party and many who want to join in knocking on doors. It doesn't help the government, according to her, that the government and the Sweden Democrats have largely done what they promised the voters.
"At the same time, Jimmie Åkesson ran for election on the promise of abolishing the unfair waiting period. He was supposed to be the guarantor of welfare," says Andersson, whose party has now abolished the waiting period in health insurance as one of its most important and most expensive election promises.
Long list of promises
In her May Day speech, the S leader said that she would not promise everything to everyone. Despite this, the list of S promises is already long: abolishing the waiting period, increasing child and student grants, a reform of primary schools, index-linked municipal grants and restoring high-cost protection for medicines.
At the same time, it is not increased taxes that will pay for the promises. The S leadership does not believe that it is possible to bring in so many billions that way.
V wants to raise taxes by 60 - 70 billion.
"That's up to them," says Andersson, who answers "center-left" when asked if S sees itself as a left-wing party.
Speed up
S wants to introduce a contingency tax and a bank tax. But it is with good growth and economic policies that the party will accelerate investment and construction and encourage household consumption.
"Several of the proposals are intended to stimulate, to ensure that ordinary households have a little more margin," says Andersson, who in the spring criticized the government for serving up cheap pork for borrowed money.
If S is allowed to form a government, several politically difficult decisions await almost immediately: abolishing or extending the temporary reductions in the gasoline tax, halving the price of monthly public transport passes and halving VAT on food.
What an S government does depends entirely on the economic situation at the time, according to Andersson.
