Just over a week ago, Minister of the Interior and Justice Morgan Johansson (S) survived the no-confidence vote that was launched by the Sweden Democrats in early June.
The reason was criticism of Morgan Johansson’s handling of gang crime and the increased number of shootings in Sweden. Soon the party was backed by both M as KD and L.
Bengt Westerberg’s critique
The timing of the no-confidence motion has been criticized because Sweden is currently in the middle of an application for NATO membership. Arousing distrust also meant that the political savage Amineh Kakabaveh, who is a red curtain for Turkey, got the spotlight directed at him.
Among those who were most upset was Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, who called the increase “unworthy”. Now Bengt Westerberg, former party leader for the People’s Party, is also taking the critical votes. He has previously said that he will not vote for his old party and sees the no-confidence motion against Morgan Johansson as a sign of the increasingly harsh debate climate.
– The harsh climate is sometimes expressed in things that I react strongly to, such as this threat of a no-confidence motion against Morgan Johansson, I think that was going too far. It would have been easier if the Moderates and other parties had directly said when the Sweden Democrats took the initiative that this is not the time for this type of initiative, he says to Politikbyrån.
Bengt Westerberg is thus critical of his old party, which according to the new party leader Johan Pehrson was completely in agreement to stand behind a no-confidence motion against Morgan Johansson.
Adelsohn: “Andersson took in something violent”
At the same time, Ulf Adelsohn, former party leader for the Moderates, thinks that it was Magdalena Andersson who overreacted when she threatened that the entire government would resign.
– The new Prime Minister, I think she took in something violent. There she reacted very harshly and irreconcilably in her comments and then the answers also became irreconcilable, of course. But I think it calms down, he says Politikbyrån.