In December, the government sent a proposal for a new migration policy for consultation.
The proposals are more liberal than those produced by the Parliamentary Migration Committee and, according to Nyamko Sabuni, they therefore violate the January Agreement.
She therefore repeats her previous statement that the government must back away from the proposals, otherwise the agreement will not be honored and then the Liberals will leave the cooperation.
- Yes, if there is no agreement, there is no cooperation either, she says in SVT's interview program "30 minutes".
- Then we leave the negotiating table, she adds.
According to Sabuni, she and the Liberals are anxiously awaiting the government's migration bill, which is expected to be presented later this spring.
The other co-operation parties, the Green Party and the Center Party, have expressed themselves positively to the consultation proposals.
Never threatened with by-elections
Both Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S) and center leader Annie Lööf have said that if the Liberals left the January agreement, it would probably lead to a government crisis and perhaps even to a by-election.
However, Nyamko Sabuni says that she has never threatened by-elections, but it is the Prime Minister and the other January parties who, in fact, are the ones who do not live up to the January agreement.
- It's so cheeky, it's disrespectful !, she says and adds:
- They are the ones causing a government crisis when they break the agreement!
A divided party
The Liberals' cancer in public opinion continues and in the latest Novus survey, the party received only 2.7 percent.
Nyamko Sabuni says that the party's ambiguity in what type of government or prime minister it will support after the 2022 election has certainly affected, but that she does not intend to let the declining opinion figures influence her actions regarding the January agreement.
It should be honored.
- It is not opinion figures that make me let my party be treated like a doormat.