"The budget has historically weak support"

Thursday's presentation of the economic conditions for the autumn budget has caused several economic policy spokespersons to react.

The Moderates' Elisabeth Svantesson expresses some hesitation about the announcement of a reform space of SEK 74 billion, when the National Institute of Economic Research has said about SEK 40 billion.

- It feels a bit like it is to meet the needs of the Center Party and the Left, perhaps more than Sweden's needs.

But also to include their own vacation weeks and grant increases.

- We need an expansive policy and will return to how we look exactly at our reform space, says Svantesson.

"A party in defiance"

In order for the government to get the budget through, support is required from both the Left Party and the Center Party, but a demand from C is that the budget may not be negotiated with V.

- One has to regret that the Center Party behaves like a party in defiance.

Had they been able to take responsibility, we would have sat at a negotiating table and worked to produce a budget that contains reforms that we could both have been behind.

Now we have been forced to present our reform demands in the light of the public, says V's economic policy spokesperson Ulla Andersson.

She can not yet answer whether the party will support the government's budget.

- We must see a whole.

It is very difficult to guess, a budget is quite extensive.

It can be several thousand pages.

Our starting point is that we vote on our own budget.

Presents own budget

The Sweden Democrats' economic policy spokesperson Oscar Sjöstedt believes that he is "somewhat more concerned" than the Minister of Finance Magdalena Andersson (S).

- In the EU as a whole, unemployment is falling, while in Sweden it is rising.

We have a cement crisis and an energy crisis, and both risk hitting Swedish jobs extremely hard in the period ahead, says Sjöstedt.

He assesses the government's chances of getting through its proposal as approximately 50/50 and says that the party will present its own budget.

- For the Sweden Democrats, we are no stranger to passing a budget bill, we have done that a couple of times before, says Sjöstedt.

The Moderates' Elisabeth Svantesson is also puzzled by how the Social Democrats and MPs will receive support in the Riksdag.

- Here we have a Minister of Finance who will put a budget on the Riksdag's table that we do not know if it will go through.

It has historically weak support.

And she did not give any information on how she will get it through in the Riksdag, she says.