L-top’s boot against the lead: the threat of freedom is the nationalists

A tighter and clearer Liberals, so the party’s new future vision Selma – can be named after author Selma Lagerlöf – be summarized.

The vision was presented at the party’s national meeting in Karlstad over the weekend and was met by a cautious optimism. But there is also internal criticism.

Stockholm top Jan Jönsson believes that the party is on its way to a stricter integration policy with a greater focus on immigrants’ values.

– Different religious groups can have a very strong control over people’s freedom and create a huge freedom in different residential areas. But the great social threat of freedom consists greatly of right -wing forces, trumpists, and nationalists. I don’t think we see the nationalist side as a big enough problem, he says.

Jan Jönsson, who is an opposition mayor in Stockholm and sits on the party board, believes that it is partly due to the cooperation with the Sweden Democrats.

– But it should not prevent us from seeing reality as it is.

The Selma project is named after the author Selma Lagerlöf, who was active during the formation of the People’s Party.

– Now we are suddenly in a situation where the world order is thrown out the window. We have very clear political forces of course in the United States, but also in Sweden and in the EU who want to go in the opposite direction and who wants the woman to go back to the stove.

Jan Jönsson points out the Swedish Democrats as a significant driving force in the conservative and nationalist currents in Swedish politics.

-They have a very different view of LGBTQ rights, minority rights, gender equality and the rule of law than we have.

Do you mean SD wants the woman to return to the stove?

– If you look at what the debaters about SD express, some of their elected representatives and the SD-coupled channel Riks, they encourage a girl and women who may be home more with the children. And who describes for women and girls how they should be.

L leader Johan Pehrson has been self -critical to the fact that the party has not reflected sufficiently on the consequences of the Liberals’ policy. Among other things, he pointed out this weekend to the fact that « a climate policy was driven without anchoring at the kitchen tables ».

Jönsson turns that description. On the contrary, he thinks that the Liberals must raise the voice in the climate issue – which is one of the party’s ministerial portfolios.

– If I look at liberal voters in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, where we have almost all our voters, it is anchored at the kitchen tables. This is something that both children and parents talk to each other about and an important issue for politics to take responsibility for.

In DN/Ipso’s latest opinion poll, the Liberals remain under the parliamentary block. Several liberals that DN has spoken to point to vobling on the government issue in recent years as a factor.

How should you reverse the numbers?

– We have an advantage and that is that we have the school. There are many interesting steps that I perceive have support from a broad public. Then I still see that many of the parties, not least S, still speak repression when it comes to crime. Social care is one of the issues we should prioritize most. It is a profile issue that we can take, because no one else talks about it.

How would you evaluate SD collaboration?

– In terms of opinion, it has been really tough for the Liberals. Above all, our voters in the big cities are very skeptical. We have agreed to a lot in Tidö collaboration and have become a weaker voice in the values ​​of values ​​that we now need to take back.