Published 24 April 2023 at 17.03
Domestic. After the rounds around the EU's immigration pact, the Social Democrats are now demanding that the government clarify its line on the immigration issue.
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The Tidö parties have promised a “paradigm shift” in migration policy, but the alleged reduction in immigration appears increasingly distant.
In the EU Parliament, the moderate Tomas Tobé produced a proposal for an immigration pact which means that the EU Commission will be able to force member states to accept asylum seekers. Tobé's proposal was voted through in parliament last week.
However, the Sweden Democrats are strongly critical of the immigration pact, and SD leader Mattias Karlsson has hinted that the Tidö collaboration could be jeopardized if the proposal is adopted in its current form.
Anders Ygeman (S) now wants Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) to explain what the government's line on the matter really is, so that it becomes clear whether this line has support in the Riksdag.
– We will find out out whether what appears to have been the government's line so far has support or if it is what SD claims in the media, Ygeman told TT.
S has previously accused SD of bluffing about reduced immigration. The background is that just before the election last fall, SD suddenly dropped its previous demand to introduce labor market testing for so-called labor immigration, which would have reduced Third World immigration clearly. Instead, SD has adapted to the bourgeois parties' liberal view of this type of immigration.