When Stefan Löfven was thanked in the Riksdag, Jimmie Åkesson put on a sausage party in the Riksdag - the resigning S-leader received an extremely spicy sausage as a farewell gift.

According to Jimmie Åkesson, who rarely has anything nice to say about Stefan Löfven, the sausage would not be seen as a disguised threat or desire for misfortune.

Now the SD leader (who described Löfven as "the worst prime minister of all time") gives his antagonist more than a semi-friendly pass.

- I understand that he is a person who, despite this lack of grounding in reality, still has an address that is popular.

He has an accessible personality that I think many ordinary people, as far as one can talk about such, can identify with.

He is perceived as a nice man and so am I, says Jimmie Åkesson in Politikbyrån and continues:

- Had Stefan Löfven and I had the opportunity to socialize under other conditions, in a completely different time in a completely different world, we would probably have gotten along quite well, I think.

The advantage compared to Reinfeldt

Jimmie Åkesson also believes that Stefan Löfven has a clear advantage compared to his predecessor Fredrik Reinfeldt (M).

- Unlike the previous Prime Minister we had, Stefan Löfven has been such a Prime Minister who has nevertheless called in person.

Reinfeldt never did, but he always sent a secretary of state when there were urgent matters and the party leaders had to be involved, but Stefan Löfven has actually made contact personally from the first moment.

Mari Forssblad, political reporter at SVT, reacts with surprise to Jimmie Åkesson's information about the telephone conversations with Stefan Löfven.

- One immediately thinks "why does Jimmie Åkesson want to tell this?".

It sounds like they have had something on the side that we do not know.

Is it true?

It was interesting, she says in Politikbyrån.

"Kidnapped by the party"

Jimmie Åkesson still wants to clarify that he, after all, believes that Stefan Löfven has not been a "great prime minister" and that he "unsurprisingly" would have liked to have seen someone else in the post.

- But basically I still think that Stefan Löfven is a decent man who wants well and who wants to be on the side of the workers and all this.

At the same time, somewhere he may not have chosen to become party chairman and prime minister.

- He probably saw it as a duty rather and has in some sense also been kidnapped by the party.

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This is how Stefan Löfven is described by the tops.

Photo: SVT