The most discussed question before the meeting is what a government should look like after the election and what possible red lines should apply to the Sweden Democrats.
If the Tidö parties win the election, the SD wants ministerial posts. The L party board says no to this: The next government will continue to consist of the three bourgeois parties that are currently in government.
"The Liberals will also not allow a government with ministers from the Sweden Democrats," the party board writes in the documents.
“Lively debate”
But several members and unions have, before the party board made its decision, submitted motions for other options. Runo Johansson, chairwoman of the municipal board in Tidaholm, believes that all red lines against both SD and V should be abolished.
It is clear that there have been many scandals in which the Sweden Democrats have been involved, but they have still been a supporting party during this term of office and the Tidö collaboration has mainly worked well.
It is pedagogically difficult to explain to voters that L can collaborate on the budget with SD but not sit in government together, he continues. At the national meeting he will fight for his line.
It will certainly be a lively debate, says Johansson.
Another motion supported by around 60 individual members, including MP Martin Melin, also believes that the party board should be open to SD ministers. It is proposed that the same Melin be elected to the party board.
“No accidents”
At the same time, party board member and SD critic Jan Jönsson writes in a motion that L should not cooperate with parties that use troll factories, disinformation or that have connections to organized crime.
There are also members who want to go further.
The proposals for conduct, information obligations and a ban on begging are "not accidents" but expressions of a conscious strategy on the part of the SD that "threatens to deepen the shadow society and undermine the fundamental principles of the rule of law," the county association in Uppsala writes in a motion.
They do not want to see any extensive substantive political cooperation with the SD after the election.
Party leader Simona Mohamsson assumes that the national meeting will debate "high and low". She and others in the party leadership believe that the party board's line will win.
I have shown what is required for our mandates and I have a united party board behind me, she says.
