The moderates want to buy beer and wine in stores

It is also about freedom and responsibility, argued the Moderate Youth Association chairman Benjamin Dousa from the pulpit, that M should now work to sell beer and wine with up to 20% by volume in regular stores.

In a sweater with the slogan "Crush the Monopoly" in Systembolaget's colors, Dousa said it works in Denmark and Germany.

- Does it make Danes walk around like alcoholic zombies?

No, Dousa said, claiming that the monopoly has not led to reduced alcohol consumption but to increased smuggling and private imports. He added that "the clock of freedom" should strike "from Ica to Lidl."

"This is an important matter of principle," said Matilda Ekeblad, representative from Östergötland

Oskar Weinmar, a representative from Stockholm County, was one of the few who warned to proceed too quickly with a liquidation of the alcohol monopoly.

"Alcohol is not a commodity like any other," Weinmar said.

At the 2015 General Meeting, it was decided that the party should investigate the forms of settlement and the meeting confirmed the party board's view that that line is fixed.

- Now we move forward our positions and say how it should go. This is a clear change of position, said Niklas Borg, representative from Östergötland and chairman of the committee that put forward the draft beer and wine in stores in the debate.

The AGM also agreed that the party should work to allow farm sales of locally produced alcoholic beverages.