The Social Democrats want to introduce new investment support to kick-start housing construction in the country. The party also wants to introduce state construction credits.
SwedenFormer Prime Minister and Social Democratic Party leader Stefan Löfven will campaign for the party on a bus tour in northern Sweden.
Swedish politicsSD party leader Jimmie Åkesson launches a harsh attack on former Social Democratic ministers in his Almedalen speech. "You have let security be lost," he says, and promises to do everything in his power to stop what he describes as a forced mixing of the population.
Swedish politicsThe red-green parties - S, V and MP - would have their own majority if there were an election today, according to Statistics Sweden's major party sympathy survey. The Liberals would be forced out of parliament.
Swedish politicsThe Social Democrats want an external review of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) and his government over the impeachment. All cards must be on the table, party secretary Tobias Baudin tells TT.
Swedish politicsThe Social Democrats' party secretary Tobias Baudin, commenting on the re-election of Liberal Party leader Simona Mohamsson, said that the likelihood of SD leader Jimmie Åkesson becoming prime minister "has increased significantly." Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) welcomed the news and wrote in a debate article that it "could facilitate the formation of my next government."
Swedish politicsThe government wants every individual member of an LO union to be able to opt out of part of their membership fee being used as a contribution to the Social Democrats. S believes that the government should have more important things to do than to interfere in the financing of opposition parties.
Swedish politicsThe Prime Minister and Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson should, given the world situation and recent events involving Iran, have more important things to do now than spend days on a bus tour before the election, the Social Democrats believe.
Swedish politicsShould the church be allowed to comment on the conflict between Israel and Palestine? Sweden's two largest parties in the Riksdag have vastly different opinions on the matter. There is no point in the Swedish church commenting on that type of polarizing issue, says the Sweden Democrats' party leader Jimmie Åkesson (SD).
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