Simona Mohamsson’s liberals will set foot about the Swedish Democrats – but the party remains deeply divided.
Two clear lines are now facing each other, says sources for Expressen.
On Friday, L’s fate process begins at a meeting that is expected to create hot feelings, and can land in “a KD solution”.
When the party board gathered at the end of the week to prepare all texts for the national meeting in November, it can be messy. This means a number of liberals that Expressen has spoken to.
– This is a very difficult question with many strong feelings involved, says one of them.
The party board should agree on which line to recommend, in practice a yes or a no to SD ministers. The reason for the decision is SD’s requirements for ministerial posts after 2026, if the right parties win the election next year.
The hope internally in the Liberals is to be able to land in a result already during Friday, but you have set aside time for more gatherings if that ambition fails.
The leaders of the four time parties.
Photo: Fredrik Sandberg / TT News Agency
Can become a KD solution
Expressen has spoken to a number of profiles within the Liberals before the meeting. It is clear that the issue is still difficult and that not even people high up in the party certainly dare to say what the solution will be.
At present, there are two lines that resist each other, but one that is considered more likely to win.
One track is about determining the same decision as 2023, thus retaining the party’s red lines against government participation for outer parties – in this case SD. This view is run, among other things, by the party’s strong district in Stockholm, but is also said to have support in Uppsala and some parts of Skåne and Western Sweden. Among those who openly say no to SD are Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari.
The second track, which is what most people think will win at the national meeting, is about ironing previous red lines, in much the same way KD did in January this year. Among the advocates of this view, Labor Minister Johan Britz and his representative Mats Persson are said to be, but also MP Martin Melin and EU parliamentarian Karin Karlsbro are also mentioned.
Kristersson’s responsibility
When KD stroked its red lines, it was interpreted as an opening for SD ministers. But this is a view that liberals do not want to be known.
-Not at all, there is no support for it, says an L representative.
Instead, the advocates of scrapped red lines believe that it is about giving party leader Simona Mohamsson a more open negotiating mandate. This means that an increased focus should also be placed on communication that it will continue to be an M, KD, L-government you want to see.
At the same time, the solution is sentenced to a place outside the government for L. The experience of the time with the January agreement and the time agreement has indicated that it is only in the government the party can have full transparency and access to the department’s resources. To release a government where SD, M and KD but not L are included is also not seen as a good solution, as it is believed that it would be a very conservative government without liberal influence.
However, people behind the two tracks agree on one thing – that it cannot be the liberals’ responsibility to solve the mandate mathematics. It is instead a puzzle for those who want to form government to solve, ie Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M), they say.
Simona Mohamsson has so far not said what solution she wants to see. However, she has repeated that “L is part of the bourgeois team”.
