Social Democrats group leader Annelie Karlsson: "It's a whole new order in Swedish politics"

The left-wing party leader Jonas Sjöstedt gave the government two weeks to back from the reform plans for the Employment Service.

The planned, and criticized, privatization, which means that independent actors will partly take over the task of matching job seekers to vacancies, was part of the January agreement. A demand from the Center Party.

- We have a clean agreement with C, L and MP in the agreement and there is also the Employment Service, says Annelie Karlsson (S) and continues:

- What is remarkable is that the Left Party wants to form a pact with parties that want to go even further with the Employment Service than themselves. This is a whole new order in Swedish politics.

Earlier this fall, SD targeted distrust of Justice Minister Morgan Johansson (S). This was then also supported by both M and KD, but the parties had to give way when they did not get enough votes required.

- This is an instrument that is intended to be used when a government minister has breached his responsibility or caused errors and shortcomings. Now you use the tool instead to criticize the policy first, says Annelie Karlsson.

SVT News has applied for Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S) who answers in a sms:

“It is noteworthy that the Left Party, together with the Moderates, Christian Democrats and Sweden Democrats, is prepared to topple a minister who took office almost three months ago. The government is working on the reform of the Employment Service, in this work we are open to talks. The next step for me is that the parties behind the January agreement are now discussing how we proceed based on the situation that has arisen ”.

During a joint press conference, party leaders Ulf Kristersson (M) and Ebba Busch Thor (KD) announced that it will give the government Tuesday next week before they raise a declaration of confidence.

The two points that KD and M criticize mainly are the timetable for privatization and that it is not considered that the reform can rest on the law on freedom of choice systems.