Kristersson's new goal for the Moderates

The moderates' party meeting today started in Västerås. In his opening speech, Kristersson set goals for the party and described the way there.

"Of course, it leads up to the election in 2022, to such a good election result that we can form a bourgeois government that runs real bourgeois politics," said the Moderate leader.

However, Kristersson did not mention with which other parties such a bourgeois government should be formed. He, on the other hand, stated that "The Moderates should be the obvious governing body" 2022.

- We must be prepared to lead the country through major and minor reforms for at least two terms, through the 2020s, towards the new 30s., Kristersson continued.

The M leader also pointed out goals for the party's policy development. The Moderates will "consolidate" their position as the leading law and order party and establish themselves as a party for sustainable migration policy. A third goal is to strengthen the climate policy profile. A fourth is to ensure that jobs and entrepreneurship are brought into the center of political debate.

Kristersson wants to "re-establish" the line of work from the time of the last Alliance government. The line of work was former M-leader Fredrik Reinfeldt's major project.

At the M-meeting in Västerås there is a pressure that the party must further tighten its current policy for reduced taxes and tighter contributions.

The party board met with that opinion when the general meeting was opened and presented a new proposal within the framework of the grant reform that has been pursued in recent years.

M already wants new arrivals to have to qualify for full access to the security systems. The Party Board now proposes that new arrivals should not be entitled to full support support from the start.

- As a newcomer, you often have an establishment allowance and you top it with supply support and that is what sometimes leads to quite high levels of contributions and there we say, that you should qualify for, says M's economic political spokesperson Elisabeth Svantesson.

She announces more M proposals in the future when it comes to requirements to qualify for full support.

"We are looking at Denmark, among other things, where you have to have lived in the country for at least seven out of eight years to get full support," says Svantesson.

The Moderates Youth Association, MUF, has also proposed to the AGM that livelihood support, that is to say social grants, should be more widely distributed as food vouchers. However, Svantesson does not think this would be reasonable.

Regarding tax cuts, there are motion proposals at the AGM to abolish the state income tax.

- It would not be a good idea to remove it, I do not think there is support among the Swedish people for it, it costs 60 billion, says Elisabeth Svantesson.

The party board also wants to lower the tax, but put the most money on doing so for those with normal incomes.

- We are taking big steps: we are removing the value-added tax and reducing the marginal tax rate from 20 to 17 percent, which is reasonable, half remaining is a principle that I believe the AGM shares, she says.

Party leadership states that many in the party feel a newfound freedom to sharpen their politics after the Alliance's death. The party meeting is the first in 15 years when moderates do not have to think about how the Alliance receives various proposals and decisions - it finally burst into winter.