In recent years, the Christian Democrats have become tougher on issues such as criminal and refugee policy.
SVT's Agenda has met two former Christian Democrats who are disappointed with the development.
Another who has expressed concern about the increasingly tough profile and rapprochement with the Sweden Democrats is Alf Svensson.
He was the party leader of the Christian Democrats for 31 years, and resigned in 2004.
- I mean that you should be careful not to take sharp formulations when talking about refugee policy because they are fellow human beings, Svensson told SVT during this weekend's Rikssting in Norrköping.
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In the last election, KD received 6.3 percent of the vote.
In SVT / Novus' latest voter barometer, it landed at 4.1 percent, stumbling close to the parliamentary barrier.
- Of course, it is always sad when you lose party members, says party leader Ebba Busch in Agenda.
- Different people feel different at home at different times, especially if you live a long life.
Busch says he does not share the view that the party has become hard.
- The reality has changed.
But it is the same soft, warm values, and the view that politics must also have an ethical dimension and be based on ethics.
"Of course I want more support"
At the same time, many Christians have left the party.
In 2002, 40 percent of all those who went to church voted for the Christian Democrats at least once a month.
In the last election, the same figure was 23 percent.
Ebba Busch points out that the KD is not a party for Christians - but "a Christian Democratic party that belongs to the largest ideological political movement in Europe".
- The important thing is to make a difference in politics based on the values we have, says Busch.
- The approach, to be confident in our values but at the same time come up with many times difficult political solutions to the difficult and big problems we have, it has paid off.
Hear the KD leader develop his reasoning in the clip above.
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Knut and Daniel left KD when the party took a new direction: "I felt bad".
Photo: Per Leandersson / SVT