Löfven: "We are not playing any game"

In August, the Migration Committee will present its conclusions. But since the Social Democrats last week presented their bid in the negotiations, it has boiled a lot between the two government parties. S's bid differs markedly from MP's policy. And according to information, the party is now considering leaving the government if the S rounds them and negotiates with the bourgeois parties.

At the same time, M demands that S ensure that the MP in retrospect will not be able to influence any decisions made by the committee.

On Tuesday afternoon, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S) held a press conference together with Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin (MP) and Social Minister Lena Hallengren (S). They would actually present Mats Melin as chair of the Corona Commission. But afterwards, several of the questions were instead about the possible government crisis.

Prime Minister Löfven, on the other hand, did not want to comment on how the work is done in the Migration Committee. Instead, he referred to committee members.

- MP and S have been acting together in office for almost six years and cooperated long before that. We have different opinions about it, it has been stated, but we can handle this cooperation. Now a discussion is underway in the committee. I imagine there are discussions in several different constellations there, he says.

Are the Social Democrats ready to run over the Environment Party in migration policy?

- There is work going on in a committee. We are not playing any game or tactics. What is necessary for Sweden is that we get a sustainable, long-term migration policy. It must be efficient and humane. That is the focus now, says Stefan Löfven.

MP's speech tube, Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin, has previously been clear that the party does not support significant parts of the policy S has put forward in the committee. But she, too, was reluctant to talk about migration policy in detail during the press conference.

"The environmental party's starting point is, of course, that we should agree on a long-term, humane and legally secure migration policy," she says.

She continues:

- But it is just as the prime minister says, we are two parties that have worked together for six years, we have worked on several issues in the past that we have managed to find out.