"The wind farm is the government's way of showing decisiveness"

On Tuesday, the government announced that two companies, OX2 and Vattenfall, have each been granted permission to build a wind farm along the Swedish west coast.

The announcement was criticized by the Sweden Democrats, who believe that they should have asked the party for permission before a decision was made.

"The Tidö Agreement is being departed from by not involving us," said Tobias Andersson (SD), chairman of the Committee on Enterprise and Innovation.

The reaction was highly expected, according to Elisabeth Marmorstein.

"The Sweden Democrats are the Riksdag's most wind power-sceptic party, and they have no intention of abandoning that position," she says.

"Not the issue that the government is cracking off"

Andreas Johansson Heinö, political scientist at the think tank Timbro, believes that Tobias Andersson's statement is very much about reminding the party of internal opinion.

"I don't think anyone in the government is sleepless about feeling irritated by today's announcement. This is not the issue that the government could crack on, he says during tonight's Aktuellt.

Hear more from Elisabeth Marmorstein on the subject in the clip above.