Elections in Sweden: – The Norwegian Fear of Sweden:

Gotland / Stockholm (Dagbladet): – It’s totally silly!

This is what Ali Esbati (Vänsterpartiet) said when Dagbladet confronted him with the expression “Swedish conditions” used in the debate about Norwegian immigration – especially by FRP leaders.

Elections take place in Sweden on Sunday. In addition to the election of a new Riksdag, there are also municipal and regional elections.

In a year is likely to set one A grim record of the death toll in shootingsGang crimes, immigration, integration, and foreigners were among the top themes of the election campaign.

But even if both parties agree on the scale of the problem, not everyone agrees on the cause or the solution.

pointing to school

The Swedish conditions are not just a number that came from other countries. We have seen periods of high migration before, Esbati tells Dagbladet, without showing any connection with social development in these areas.

He believes that in this case what the expression “Swedish conditions” should include is the situation in the Swedish school and its privatization.

The development in the school district has left major problems in these areas. Not everyone who fails in school ends up in this environment, but it increases the chances exponentially, says Espati.

He also criticizes the housing policy and believes that it has had a special effect in the high-risk areas.

– The public sector retreated and was betting that the market would solve the challenges. But the market is not, and those who initially have a weak financial position are the most affected by this policy.

Noise in the toilet

– symbolic designs

Almost all parties are now heading to the polls due to increased penalties.

The Social Democratic government wants to tighten penalties, among other things, for the crimes of serious weapons, theft, extortion and drug sales. These increases in punishment have broad support in other parties.

The bourgeois opposition also wants a double punishment for crimes mainly related to gang settlements, such as murder. This is what Denmark did in the past.

For its part, the Left Party does not agree that the solution lies in tougher sanctions.

– What I think is a problem with the Swedish electoral debate is that, especially from the right, they have focused on what I think are more symbolic schemes: you have to be strict with crime and have a higher sentence. But there are no suggestions on how to prevent crime, says Espati and concludes:

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There is knowledge here, but there is a lack of political will to know how things fit together.

More police, but…

The bourgeois bloc with moderates, liberals, and Christian Democrats also collaborated with the Swedish Democrats (SD) in proposing a stricter immigration policy.

Although referred to as a “first step” by the SD, it is nonetheless considered a major victory for the traditionally critical of immigration.

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The SD has also demanded $20 billion for the judiciary through 2026, which will be used, among other things, to train thousands of new police officers, in order to join the government.

Sweden now has about 22,000 police officers, but the SD’s long-term goal is to have 350 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants.

The current government’s goal is to have about 26,200 police officers by 2024. Within ten years, the Social Democrats want to have 50,000 police officers.

But Vänsterpartiet doesn’t think this is a good enough measure to solve the gang crime problem either.

Yes, more police will be needed, but what police who are active in many of these same areas are saying they need other agencies to get on board to prevent new recruitment from happening, Espati says.

We must make sure that it is not an option for young people to end up in this situation. He concludes that after that we need social services and the school in the field.