The Liberals have agreed with the government on the defense budget for the coming period, but they do not agree on the content of the coming period's defense bill.
- It is not a January agreement issue, but I mean that the government has broken the agreement we had, says Nyamko Sabuni in an interview with SVT's political commentator Mats Knutson after Prime Minister Stefan Löfven read out the government declaration in the Riksdag.
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She believes that the defense issue was therefore not resolved in a good way and continues:
- I regret that Sweden does not have a defense policy that is anchored in the Riksdag.
At the beginning of the summer, the defense negotiations broke down after Minister of Defense Peter Hultqvist (S) did not want to promise increased defense funding after 2025. The Moderates, Christian Democrats and Liberals have previously said in a debate article in Dagens Nyheter that they are prepared to run over the government in parliament. defense financing.
In the interview, Sabuni also gets questions about the January agreement, which she believes is becoming less and less important.
- What we are doing right now is simply negotiating budgets.
There is nothing in the January agreement that meets the situation we are in with the pandemic.