According to Tommy Möller, professor of political science at Stockholm University, the Tidöavtalet – the cooperation agreement between M, KD, L and SD – contains around 40 investigations. According to his assessment, this is a record for the number of investigations announced at the same time.
Among other things, the parties want to investigate a language requirement for staff in elderly care, a national ban on begging and deportation of gang criminals.
– We have a very high level of ambition when it comes to legislative work, not least when it comes to law enforcement and serious organized crime, says Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M).
But how many investigations will have time to result in concrete policy before the next election is uncertain, and there is a risk that many of them will be dragged to the bench, says Tommy Möller. He also points out that many investigations are formulated as if they “should”, not “must”, be carried out, and that it is also about already appointed investigations where, according to the Tidö Agreement, the parties must give additional directives.
– And in some cases you may even have to change the constitution, so these are not small projects you have launched, says Möller and continues:
– Even though we have longer terms of office now than we did a few decades ago, you may not have time to turn this trend around enough in terms of crime, which allows you to go to the next election and say that you have turned it around here ominous trend.
However, the fact that parts of the government’s and SD’s policies would not have time to come to fruition does not worry the Minister of Justice.
– It is clear that during four years you will have time to set up many investigations, get concrete legislative proposals and also have time to implement a lot, says Gunnar Strömmer.