Åkesson refuses to rescue Liberals: ‘Not our responsibility’
Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson has refused to ask his voters to cast support votes for the Liberals, despite the smaller party’s struggle to stay in parliament and the threat that poses to the governing bloc.
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Åkesson told TV4 News that a stronger Liberal negotiating position is not what SD voters want. He called the Liberals his party’s “opposite” inside the Tidö cooperation and said voters should support the Sweden Democrats instead.
The refusal comes 24 days before Sweden’s election. An SVT/Verian poll published this week put the Liberals at 1.9 percent, far below the national four-percent threshold for entering parliament. If the party falls out, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s path to another government narrows sharply.
Åkesson said any organised rescue was a matter for Sweden’s bourgeois parties, pointing to the Moderates and Christian Democrats. “We are not a bourgeois party,” he said.
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