Education or tax cuts to break long-term unemployment

The evening's first topic in the party leader debate was jobs and began with a duel between Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and the Moderates' party leader Ulf Kristersson.

Sweden has an unemployment rate of 8.5 percent and a record high long-term unemployment.

Nearly half of the 392,000 long-term unemployed who are registered with the Swedish Public Employment Service have been unemployed for more than a year.

Ulf Kristersson believes that the most important thing to break long-term unemployment is that it should pay to work instead of living on benefits, that more people learn the Swedish language and that more children and no one sees their changes go to work.

- This is an integration problem, many people have come to Sweden but have not entered the labor market, says Kristersson.

Prime Minister Stefan Löfven highlights labor market measures in the form of extra services and training to address the problem and at the same time criticizes Kristersson for focusing instead on employment tax deductions.

- Education education education is what matters.

In northern Sweden, there is a huge demand for labor.

They do not talk about employment tax deductions or that the unemployment insurance fund should be reduced, says Löfven.

- You talk about some education, this is an integration problem, says Kristersson.

I think you are underestimating what is happening in a country where more and more people are living on fewer and fewer people's work.

It tears Sweden apart, that is

- A little education, I'm talking about a lot of education, Löfven answers.

Jimmie Åkesson: "Do you call me a Nazi ?!"

The debate about jobs and unemployment insurance came to an end when SD leader Jimmie Åkesson got angry over the MP spokesperson per Bolund's language use.

- I just have to: Per Bolund, who's brown here?

Do you call me a Nazi?

I'm really upset.

Stop throwing that color at me, Jimmie Åkesson said after Per Bolund called Jimmie Åkesson's party blue-brown.

Per Bolund replied that blue-brown is an established concept for conservative parties that cooperate with right-wing populist parties.

- I have never called Jimmie Åkesson a Nazi, says Per Bolund (MP).

Only after several exchanges of views could the debate continue again.

What reduces emissions here and now?

When the climate issue was debated, several party leaders raised the high electricity prices and nuclear power.

- It is expensive with electricity today.

The Swedish people have long been prepared to help with the transition.

But they face the dirty and expensive electricity, says the Liberals' Nyamko Sabuni.

- I can agree that we have a problem with getting electricity to those who want to switch, we have increased the ceilings in expanding the electricity network.

The climate crisis is not in 10-20 years, it is here and now, these dreams of nuclear power do not help companies today.

what we want is to expand renewable electricity, says MP's Per Bolund.

When the party leaders were then asked which concrete proposal would reduce emissions next year, the Center Party's Annie Lööf raised the party's budget as a "green offensive".

- We have a strengthening of the electric car bonus, a truck premium and spend more money on climate change.

A minus for emissions is a plus for the climate and therefore broad investments must be made.

Several parties want to limit for independent schools

The issue of school profits has emerged as one of the most important political issues.

Several parties want to tighten the rules for independent schools, among other things by changing the queuing system and preventing school companies from taking out profits.

The Left Party wants to tighten the rules for independent schools and the party leader Nooshi Dadgsoatar is critical of what she calls the teachers "a world-unique market experiment".

- Foreign venture capitalist companies control and set up in Swedish schools, it is offered to venture capitalist companies and it has created a chaotic school that we can not control, says Dadgostar.

SD's Jimmie Åkesson believes that there is a problem with over-establishment and schools that reduce quality in order to make a profit.

But he believes that the real problem lies elsewhere.

- The big problem in Swedish schools is the flume that left-liberals have allowed to characterize the school for decades.

Teachers and staff have been forced to capitulate to disorder and violence, says Jimmie Åkesson.

When the other parties were allowed into the debate, several raised the issue of queuing time.

- We want to lower the thresholds for all parents to choose a school for their children.

Two or three years of queuing time for children may be enough, not from newborn age, says Liberal Nyamko Sabuni.

Löfven criticizes the opposition's gang proposal: "Second on the ball"

Gang crime and the large number of shootings were another hot topic of debate.

Prior to the debate, the Moderates, Christian Democrats, Sweden Democrats and Liberals had formulated 20 proposals to stop gang violence in a debate article on DN Debatt.

M-leader Ulf Kristersson describes the situation as "modern-day domestic terrorism".

Some of the proposals concern anonymous witnesses and the deportation of foreign nationals who have come to Sweden to participate in crime, even if they have not yet committed a crime.

- You have to be rock hard against the gangs and that is why we have about a thousand more in jail and prison.

Some of the proposals today have already been on the table.

Being second on the ball is not impressive, says Löfven.

Kristersson protests:

- This is larval.

You have said no to several of these proposals as recently as this week after the bombing in Gothenburg.