Updated 14:24 | Published 14:24
Criticism in the Liberals against the cooperation with the Sweden Democrats continues.
Several L politicians, with posts right up to the party board, join together in a demand for independence.
“The liberals no longer have any limits on how to support SD. There are no red lines,” they write.
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SD leaders Björn Söder’s and Richard Jomshof’s statements about Islam and LGBTQ people continue to torment parts of the Liberals. In a new appeal, 25 liberal municipal politicians from around Sweden are harshly criticizing how the party relates to SD.
“Before the election, there were many discussions about the party’s “red lines” that would be inviolable when they violated liberal basic principles. These lines would be a kind of guarantee that a collaboration with SD could be accepted in the party.” “We note that the Liberals now have no limit to how they support SD. There are no red lines.” write the L-politicians in the Liberal newspaper NU.
“L is in a deep slump”
Among the signatories are Marianne Damström Gereben in Solna, Jan Jönsson in Stockholm who also sits on the party board and Jessica Johnson in Vallentuna. L politicians from several municipalities in Scania, Halmstad, Falköping and Östersund are also represented.
“Confidence in us continues to drop. The Liberals are still in a deep slump. We don’t think it was the hopes with the Tidö agreement. We believe that the hopes were to reverse the negative trend where more party members defect and leave with sadness when they do not feel that the party lives up to its own basic values, time and time again.” they write.
The text ends with a demand for the Liberals’ national meeting to be held later this fall: That the Liberals go to the polls as an independent party in 2026.
Several critical calls
The Liberals’ party board has not yet given an answer to the demand. This weekend, the party board will have a meeting where motions for the autumn national meeting will be discussed.
None of the signatories that Aftonbladet has been in contact with wants to comment on the content.
“It concerns a motion to the national meeting, and we are now awaiting an answer from the party board first.” writes Jessica Johnson in a text message.
“This is a motion to be processed this weekend and I am mostly a co-signatory, so I am waiting to see how it will be processed,” writes Jan Jönsson in a text message.
Earlier this week, Aftonbladet wrote about another call in the Liberals. 34 local party associations and side organizations demand that SD leader Björn Söder be nominated as chairman of the Swedish OSCE delegation. Last week, several liberals went out and demanded that Richard Jomshof, chairman of the Riksdag’s justice committee, resign from his post.
Aftonbladet has sought the Liberal party secretary Gulan Avci for a comment. The party’s national meeting takes place in mid-November.