Today, the Parliamentary Migration Committee meets for one of its last meetings, but already yesterday it was clear that negotiations on a new migration policy have broken down, mainly because the Social Democrats and Moderates do not manage to agree, as the political contradictions are too great. Instead, they now accuse each other of carrying the main responsibility for the collapse.
According to the Moderates, the Social Democrats really want a tighter migration policy, but have not dared to go against the government colleague Miljöpartiet's desire for a more liberal policy.
"It has become very clear that the Social Democrats have chosen power instead of politics," says the Moderates' migration policy spokesperson, Maria Malmer Stenergard, in SVT's Morning Study.
According to Malmer Stenergard, the Social Democrats said before the election that they wanted immigration down to a European level, but once it got to the crunch, it turned out that was not the case.
- We wanted to compromise, but were met by the cold hand. The Social Democrats elected the Environmental Party, she says.
However, Migration Minister Morgan Johansson is of a different view. According to him, it is the Moderates who sat across and did not want to compromise.
- Surely it is not really surprising that the Moderates left the negotiations? After all, they have left most of the negotiations in recent years, he says.
Johansson says that the Moderates have constantly thrown in new questions and new demands in the negotiations and refused to compromise on many of the issues.
- So does a negotiating partner if you don't really want to come to an agreement.