Boel Godner (S) welcomes Moderate EBO message: "May succeed"

This week, the Moderates announced their position in EBO, the Act on Own Housing.

- Since EBO is both a migration and integration issue, we take the requirement with us into the work of the migration inquiry to see if there is parliamentary support for such a decision in Swedish policy, says Ulf Kristersson to SVT.

According to Ulf Kristersson, there is strong support among the municipalities.

- My impression is that the time is ripe, and I hear exactly the same from many municipal councils around Sweden, regardless of party color.

One of these is Södertälje's municipal council chairman Boel Godner (S) who has long had the same attitude on the issue.

- I think that's great. It is fantastic that the two major parties, the Social Democrats and the Moderates, now want to abolish the EBO Act. It can achieve success, she tells SVT News Södertälje.

After all, you have been fighting for a long time internally in the Social Democrats. How is the situation in the party regarding the issue now?

- We are many who demand that it be completely abolished. Now there will be a small change in the EBO Act after the turn of the year, we will see what it leads to. It can be a bit on the road. We are many municipalities that have fought for it to be completely abolished and that the Moderates support that proposal, like the Social Democrats, is good and can give success.

What would such a decision mean for Södertälje?

- Above all, it would mean a lot to the asylum seekers who today think that you end up in a good living in a nice Sweden, but instead end up in an illegal black contract in one of Sweden's vulnerable areas in a precarious situation where you are also rarely indebted to live there instead of staying at the Migration Board's collective residences.