The question of the Liberals' relationship with the Sweden Democrats and which government they want to see after the 2022 parliamentary election has long divided the party and the issues have for some time been discussed internally.
- This is a fundamental issue, this is one of the core values in the Liberal Party, says Member of Parliament Tina Acketoft to Ekot.
- You can not wash it off as easily as you do in a party council, she continues.
Last week, the party board announced that after the 2022 election, they will see a bourgeois government, in which they themselves are included, and that they will therefore leave the January agreement next year.
The party board also announced that it excludes a government that includes the Sweden Democrats, but that it will hold talks with all parliamentary parties.
The issue will be decided at the Liberal Party Council on March 28.
"We are going to the polls to form a government with the Center Party, the Christian Democrats and the Moderates, but we will talk to all parties and build majorities where there are," party leader Nyamko Sabuni told SVT.
Requires an extra national meeting
However, the announcement has provoked an intense internal debate in which many liberals now believe that the issue is so central that it must be decided at the party's highest body, the national assembly, in which 178 representatives from all over the country participate.
- Very many members have reacted very strongly to this historic decision and believe that a decision must be made in a wise order and that is to have a national meeting, says Member of Parliament Nina Lundström.
If at least one third of the party's county federation demands a national meeting, the party must hold one within two months.
The issue is currently being discussed in several unions, Ekot states.