Three years ago, we started a major change work in our party. In the spring, we had a congress and then we could present a long range of new political proposals. Our party has changed and become a more powerful team than three years ago, says party leader Magdalena Andersson at a press conference.
She says that the development is going in the wrong direction with the bourgeois government's policy, where, among other things, unemployment is increasing, gang violence continues and growth is low.
We have developed policies to reverse this development. Where we increase security, where prosperity grows and where community increases, says Andersson.
New spokespersons
The Social Democrats' party board has therefore appointed two new spokespersons. One is Lawen Redar, until now cultural policy spokesperson for the party, who becomes the new integration policy spokesperson.
Here, Sweden needs to make extensive efforts to lift the vulnerable areas. Because if we don't do that, we will never get to grips with gang crime, says Magdalena Andersson after the press conference.
Redar takes over the responsibility for integration issues after Anders Ygeman, who instead takes a place in the Riksdag's Education Committee where he becomes vice chairman.
He will take care of school issues and he is incredibly engaged in that, to now chase the government around why they don't see to it that they stop the profits in school so that our tax money can go to textbooks and teachers instead, says Andersson.
Another change is that the party appoints Anna-Caren Sätherberg as rural policy spokesperson.
I think we can get better at lifting those issues, says the S leader.
The committees are being rearranged
The S are also making several rearrangements in the Riksdag's committees regarding the posts they call group leaders.
Björn Wiechel becomes group leader in the Culture Committee, Joakim Järrebring takes a place in the Civil Committee, Ida Karkiainen becomes group leader in the Social Insurance Committee, Åsa Westlund becomes group leader in the Environment and Agriculture Committee and Jennie Nilsson becomes group leader in the Constitutional Committee, where she will also be chairman.
