The Sweden Democrats are backing away from one of the party’s clearest election promises last fall – to lower the fuel price by ten kroner.
The party’s most important measure for this is to completely abolish the reduction obligation, but there is an ongoing discussion with the other Tidö parties about where the level should be.
The Tidö parties have only reduced the tax by 41 öre a liter on diesel, and 14 on petrol, which arouses both disappointment and frustration.
– It is easy to keep promising before an election, but then it is a completely different thing to implement it in practice, says car owner Monica Zetterman.
Today, SD instead believes that the diesel price can be reduced by approximately SEK 5, where a large part of the party’s solution is to abolish the reduction obligation.
SD will soon agree with the government on how much the mixing of biofuels should be reduced from today’s 30 percent in diesel.
The deal is to go down to the EU’s minimum level, but the question of where it is is creating more and more conflict between the Tidö parties.
In the player above: Martin Kinnunen, climate and environmental policy spokesperson for SD, responds to the criticism.