Åkesson's answer to Magdalena Andersson a viral success

Published 9 November 2024 at 10.04

Domestic. A video in which Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson answers S leader Magdalena Andersson about Swedish nuclear power has been widely spread on social media this week.

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The clip is actually from an Agenda debate at the beginning of May this year, but was posted by the YouTube user “sdlimpan” at the end of October.

In the clip, Magdalena Andersson asks prime minister Ulf Kristersson (M) why he lets Jimmie Åkesson “decide” that Sweden should expand nuclear power when seven out of eight parties have agreed that nuclear power should be phased out.

When it is Åkesson's turn to speak, he fits to confirm that Magdalena Andersson is right when she says that the other parties recently agreed to phase out nuclear power.

– And we have evidence from the time when these seven parties agreed, says Åkesson and continues:

– What were the consequences for energy production? What were the consequences for the transport industry, fuel prices and food prices? What consequences did it have for inflation?

Åkesson looks meaningfully at Magdalena Andersson.

– We had the world's highest diesel price in Sweden before we, together with the government, pushed it down. We actually managed to reduce it by SEK 10, just as we promised in the election campaign.

The comments on the video are divided and some emphasize that it was circumstances other than the government's energy policy that were behind most of the inflation.

Others are more positive and mention SD and the government's change in the reduction obligation for diesel, which came into force on 1 January 2024, and which led to lower diesel prices as a result of reduced taxation.