Maria Wetterstrand is a former environmentalist spokesperson and has lived in Finland, and believes that there is a big difference between the two countries' ability to make a well-founded and well-established decision on NATO membership.
- It is about how much debate there has been in the country, how much they have investigated the issue, and perhaps partly also how much they know about Russia at a high level in society and among researchers, says Maria Wetterstrand.
According to Wetterstrand, Finland has had a long debate about NATO that Sweden has not had.
She wants the inquiries about NATO membership to be updated and for there to be a debate before the election, because she lacks democratic support for such an important decision.
- There are great risks in moving quickly in such an urgent situation as we are in now.
That you only make decisions based on the feeling of insecurity that the geopolitical situation creates in many of us right now, she says.
"We must be prepared to make a quick decision"
Former moderate leader Carl Bildt believes that the security policy debate may not have been "so impressive" in recent years, but that the issue has been sufficiently investigated.
And he believes that Sweden is getting ready to make a decision on NATO membership.
- And I think we have to be.
We are in an acute security policy situation in the outside world, in Europe.
And we have a situation where Finland is ahead of us, they do and there are historical reasons for that.
For Carl Bildt, it is obvious that Sweden must act together with Finland on this issue.
- If we end up on different paths, it becomes more dangerous for both of us, and it is not in anyone's interest.
So we must be prepared to make decisions.
We can not wait too long, says Carl Bildt.