Every year, RFSL releases its annual election report, which maps the parliamentary parties’ attitude towards LGBTQI people.
The report is divided into two parts: an examination of how the parties in the Riksdag have acted in 23 votes on LGBTQ issues in the Riksdag during the most recent term, and a survey on which reforms Riksdag candidates want to make to improve the living conditions of LGBTQ people in the future.
The report shows that the left-wing party receives the highest rating for how it has acted in the Riksdag over the past four years, while the Green Party receives the highest rating for the LGBTQ policy it wants to implement in the future.
RFSL:S has not been developed
In second last place in terms of how the parties have voted in the Riksdag are the Social Democrats.
RFSL is now directing criticism at the party and believes that the result indicates that S lacks “a common vision” and has not developed towards taking a stand for and wanting to pursue issues that deal with LGBTQ people’s equal rights and living conditions to a greater extent today than for four years ago.
SD ranks lowest
The weakest interest in improvements is among the Sweden Democrats, who rank lowest of the parties, according to RFSL.
Only in 5 of the 23 votes in the most recent term have the Sweden Democrats taken a position aimed at improving, or in some cases not worsening, the living conditions of LGBTQI people.
– SD has basically blocked every single reform that has come to the Riksdag, says RFSL’s union chairman Trifa Shakely.
The Sweden Democrats’ social policy spokesperson Linda Lindberg believes that the result may be due to the RFSL prioritizing other policy areas than the SD.
– The RFSL is an organization that perhaps falls a little more to the left. Then perhaps the policy areas that we particularly pursue when it comes to the rights of LGBT people are not taken up, she says and continues:
– There, for example, we have a great policy when it comes to mental illness.
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