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The center’s leader is the first to be interviewed by Expressen’s political reporter Maggie Strömberg in “Five Days on the Future.”
Today’s topic is “Jobs and the economy,” an area that Lööf emphasized in his summer speech last Saturday when he spoke about the importance of “restarting Sweden” with, among other things, reduced taxes.
Several of the main reforms C received through the January agreement are on the labor market, but there the party has suffered several setbacks in the last year.
“Löfven knows what applies”
Among other things, the opposition halted the planned reform of the Public Employment Service. And labor law reform, another central issue for the Center Party and liberals, runs the risk of not being eliminated when Stefan Löfven rejected the big LAS investigation that was unveiled this spring.
In the interview on Expressen TV, Maggie Strömberg asks:
Has your liberal project collapsed while you were away?
– No, not at all, I would like to say. If you look at the Public Employment Service, for example, it is still completely as planned and was open with last fall that it is clear that it is better that the reform of the Public Employment Service is good than that it follows the exact schedule. If you look at LAS research, Stefan Löfven knows what applies, says Annie Lööf.
One of the first setbacks to the Downtown Party came when Annie Lööf was still in the hospital with her premature daughter. In January, the moderates joined the Left Party and thus managed to rally a parliamentary majority against another of the reforms at the heart of the Center: the so-called entry deduction.
Great relationship with M
Lööf says she was “disappointed”:
– Here we implemented an offensive tax cut to reduce the cost of doing business and got the Social Democrats to do it. Then come the moderates. and reaches an agreement with the Left Party and increases taxes on the hiring of young people and newcomers. What if the reform took effect in the midst of a fiery pandemic? What a good injection it could have been, says the C-leader.
Relations with the moderates did not improve when Ulf Kristersson in an interview in Expressen in early June stated that the “tram” with SD had ended and that, following a possible change of government, he might consider negotiating a budget with the party.
Annie Lööf has clearly stated that she does not intend to be part of a government constellation that leans toward the Swedish Democrats, and she has not changed.
“It bit my fingers”
It says about the Center’s relationship with the moderates.
– I hope that we can go back to the polls together and that we can find broad and constructive conversations in between. But I think it is sad that the moderates have now opened up to put the state finances in a xenophobic populist party.
Despite being on paternity leave, Annie Lööf has not been able to stay completely out of politics during this crown year. She has been behind the scenes and has had close contact with her replacement Anders W Jonsson.
– The fact is that as a political leader you want to be in the place when something so serious happens, it is in the situations that judge you. So when I went home to my little daughter, my fingers stung, she says.
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