By Tuesday, the government must change its plans to privatize the Public Employment Service, otherwise the Left Party will request a vote of no confidence in Labor Minister Eva Nordmark (S). The Moderates, the Christian Democrats and the Swedish Democrats have also joined the threat.

The Left Party's demand is that privatization should not be based on the Act on Freedom of Choice (LOV), that you should give time to investigate the reform, give more money to the Employment Service, that the business should exist throughout the country and that you should secure support for people with disabilities.

The first two requirements are also requirements set by the Moderates and Christian Democrats.

It seems that the government and the cooperation parties are primarily prepared to fulfill M's and KD's requirements. Is it enough to eliminate the threat of disbelief?

- No, we would like to tell you what to do in the other areas as well. There they have moved slightly next door. But there's a bit left.

If the government changes on the points that M and KD have demanded. Is it then you or M and KD that gained influence?

- We are the ones who started this whole thing and demanded that something be done about the chaos in the Employment Service. We cannot look at when unemployed people are doing poorly as they do today. So without us, this would not have happened at all. The government has already agreed to some minor concessions.

"S has painted itself into a corner"

The Left Party has invited Stefan Löfven to negotiate with the Left Party on how the Employment Service should be changed. But the government does not want to talk to V. In the January agreement it was explicitly stated that "The Left Party will not have influence over the political direction in the coming term".

- I would say it's immature. We have a minority government that has to negotiate with other parties. We and S have made a large number of state budgets, lots of reforms, and then all of a sudden we can't talk to each other. How could they agree?

But are they prepared to talk to other parties?

- What if they don't want to? They must be able to talk to us too. The Social Democrats have painted themselves into a corner. We have much more in common with them on this issue. They don't really want any privatization. We both want to invest in labor market education so that people can actually get a good and real job.

Agenda has sought representatives from the Center Party, the Social Democrats and the Moderates, but all have declined to participate in the program.

See the entire interview with Jonas Sjöstedt in SVT's Agenda