The Liberals are taking up the fight for female voters – Swedish Radio

The Liberals are taking up the fight for female voters – Swedish Radio

Liberals want to double the gender equality bonus for paternity leave. That said, the Liberal Party leader Jan Björklund when he today held its sommartal in Gothenburg.

– We want Biffa gender equality bonus. We are proposing today to double equality bonus that then paid with SEK 6,000 tax free per month in addition to the income that you get from the parental insurance, said Jan Björklund in his speech.

But the doubling of the gender equality bonus to 200 dollars a day begins not apply only from the fifth month of the father in the family is on maternity leave. From month four, the compensation is just as today hundred dollars a day.

As the Liberal Party wants to introduce a third earmarked daddy month abolished the gender equality bonus for that month. Jan Björklund said in his speech that the change will give young women a better position in the labor market.

– Our view is that such a reform would provide a significant upward impact when it comes to gender-equal use of parental leave.

Much in Jan Björklund’s speech today followed the party’s new slogan liberal feminism without socialism. It is clear that the battle for women voters is extra hard in this year’s election.

– Left Bloc economic policy is one big trap for women. Three of the four rödgrönrosa parties have no idea how money is created. They are just focused on how the money is distributed. They all seem ah same setting as Schyman, that money will be burned.

Applause for Liberal leader who also spoke for the good, even for women with wage differences, not least in the area of ​​teaching.

Foreign policy involved only limited. Regarding Gaza spoke Björklund for a peaceful two-state solution and he condemned anti-Semitism throughout Europe.

The Red-Green opposition’s lack of a comprehensive policy took Björlund up by quoting Olof Palme, who in the 1979 election campaign said it was not was no civil alternative.

– Palme was right on this point. It has taught us, that is why we have formed the alliance. If Olof Palme was right, that of course the question if I quote Palme: What is wrong with the common red-green politics, because you do not let the voters decide it in a free democratic election?

Herman Melzer
herman.melzer @ sverigesradio.se