In this year’s first party leader debate, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven urges the parties in the Riksdag to invest in welfare with four proposals:
– Refrain from municipal tax cuts that mean that necessary investments are not made, full focus on welfare in budgets at all levels, ensure that the municipalities use the money set aside for elderly care for just that, refrain from privatizations of elderly care during the crisis, says Stefan Löfven.
The Prime Minister also comments on the storming of the Capitol in the United States.
– We are not immune to polarization either, says Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.
– An actual election result could also be undermined here in our dear country. There are forces that want to break the trust that people have in each other and in Sweden, Stefan Löfven continues.
The moderate leader Ulf Kristersson begins his speech by criticizing the government’s handling of the corona pandemic.
– It is inconceivable that no one in the government knew that the head of the country’s crisis preparedness authority left the country in the middle of the crisis. In other countries, it would have consequences for more than the manager on a trip, says Ulf Kristersson.
Jimmie Åkesson, The Sweden Democrats’ party leader, asks in his speech how Swedish elderly care can be so neglected, despite Sweden’s high taxes.
– The answer is politics, the answer is incomprehensible priorities, the answer is lack of grounding in reality. Swedish governments have for decades stood and watched when many of our most fragile have ended up in an abyss of hopelessness and despair, says Jimmie Åkesson.
Annie Lööf, The leader of the Center Party, talks about the dark situation with the pandemic but that a dawn is coming soon.
– Now is the time for all of us to take responsibility, not least ministers, directors general and members of parliament, to take the lead and act in a way that reduces the spread of infection in society, says Annie Lööf.
She says the government should have acted faster in several areas during the pandemic.
– Let the new year be a fresh start for a more active leadership, do not place the responsibility elsewhere, says Annie Lööf.
The Left Party Leader Nooshi Dadgostar also talks about the problems in elderly care in her first speech, which she believes is the result of a neoliberal policy.
– In words, the government said that the elderly who were to be protected but in action were done far from enough, says Nooshi Dadgostar.
Source: ICELAND NEWS