School, climate, lack of housing – but above all: crime.
On Tuesday evening, the party leaders will meet in debate and much will be about the wave of violence that is washing over Sweden.
– It is loaded from both sides, says Ann Tiberg, political commentator.
Last Saturday, roughly 20 shots were fired in Farsta centrum, in southern Stockholm. A 15-year-old boy and a 45-year-old man died as a result of the shooting, and two people were seriously injured.
Two 19-year-old men, who allegedly used a military automatic weapon, were arrested on Tuesday, suspected of double murder, two attempted murders, aggravated weapons offense and aggravated threat to an official.
The case is one of many recently and Sweden is currently hit by a wave of violence that is hard to stop.
“Clear dividing lines”
Tonight, 20.00 on TV4 and TV4 Play, the Riksdag’s party leaders come together to debate four topics, important to the country’s young people. The first – and in the eyes of many – the most urgent is precisely the escalating criminality and how it should be countered.
– It is loaded from both sides. After all, we have a government that has taken office and been elected to a large extent precisely on this issue, which has had a parliamentary year on it. The Social Democrats have stepped up and believe that the government has done too little of what it has promised, says Ann Tiberg.
– The government will possibly say that this must be allowed to take the time it requires for it to be done in a thorough manner. There are also clear dividing lines between the parties, she continues.
M nobbar crisis commission
At a press conference on Tuesday, the Social Democrats criticized the government and SD for a lack of preventive work. Magdalena Andersson (S) said, among other things, that “the summer risks becoming a recruitment party for the criminal gangs”.
Andersson has also proposed a “crisis commission” where all parties must work together to solve the violence problems – something Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer (M) does not believe in.
“A commission with all parties in the Riksdag would risk slowing down and creating new deadlocks. We have to be honest that several of the necessary measures that the government intends to take meet with opposition from several parties in the Riksdag,” he tells TT.
The party leader debate is led by Jenny Strömstedt and Ann Tiberg and is broadcast at 20:00 on TV4 and TV4 Play.