"Our country needs a total stop to all asylum and relative immigration, including quota refugees.
Sweden needs a total stop, for all immigration that constitutes a social, cultural or economic burden and a moratorium on the reception of quota refugees. "
This is what Jimmie Åkesson wrote last week, in a tweet that was part of a longer Facebook post.
A statement that met with criticism from the right and left.
"Derogatory descriptions"
The intended coalition parties, the Moderates and the Christian Democrats, have both distanced themselves from his formulations.
The Liberals, who are currently facing the question of whether to leave the January cooperation and support a government with Ulf Kristersson (M), have also condemned the statement.
"Angry outbursts against immigrants on twitter are unworthy of a party leader for a parliamentary party," Nyamko Sabuni wrote on Facebook.
- What I reacted to, and what I also think that several leaders reacted to, is how Jimmie Åkesson squares his policy through generalizing, derogatory descriptions of his fellow human beings, says Sabuni in Agenda.
Jimmie Åkesson answers that it is because of the policies that previous governments and current ones have pursued that we struggle with problems such as honor culture, Islamism, child marriage and polygamy in Sweden.
- I point to completely obvious problems.
That asylum immigration has been a burden for decades, economically, socially and culturally, says Åkesson.
Do not want to isolate parties
Nyamko Sabuni answers that the Liberals defend the right to asylum and the right of people to come here, and says that the Sweden Democrats are the same party today as they were in 2010 when they entered the Riksdag.
- There are many parties that think differently from what we think, then there are very few party leaders, to say maybe only one, who express themselves unworthily about their fellow human beings.
When it comes to the question of whether the Liberals can possibly form the basis of a government for a government that becomes dependent on SD, Sabuni answers that she does not believe in the isolation of parties.
- We will not draw an iron curtain against a party in the Riksdag, but we will go into a fierce confrontation where we think differently, and where we think alike, we will do something together.
- We will make sure to focus on politics and solve societal problems.
Åkesson believes that it is not his view of humanity that is unworthy, but immigration policy.
- What we need is a net minus, we can not continue as we have done.
We need to make sure that there are more people who should not be here who leave the country than who come here.