M will end up in conflict with the C of migration policy – Swedish Dagbladet

Migration Board , decided in September 2013, Sweden became the first European country to give permanent residence to refugees from Syria. Until then, many received three-year residence permit.

The background was that the situation in Syria had deteriorated considerably. “There is a generalized and indiscriminate violence that is durable over time. The conflict does not seem to end, and therefore we implement this change, “said Migration Board’s Director General Anders Danielsson.

When the Conservatives now has presented new proposals so want to say three of the four Alliance parties – M, FP and KD – tear up the Migration Board’s decision.

It was a decision of the authorities when these parties were in government, is regarded thus now a key political issue avallianspartierna who wants to reform its immigration policy.

The Christian Democrats have openly recognized that a change could reduce the number of asylum seekers coming to Sweden. “A more even distribution can reduce Sweden’s costs and facilitate the establishment of those who come here,” wrote former KD leader Goran Hagglund at DN Debate in December.

Moderate leader Anna Kinberg Batra said on Friday that the Moderates purpose is not to reduce the influx of refugees.

It is in any case a radical change from the line, Fredrik Reinfeldt – then still partiledare- formulated this in an interview with the Danish newspaper Politiken December:

“So reason we are not in Sweden. We think rather that by early and clearly provide permanent residence – and where Sweden is alone in the EU – sends a signal that now you’ll start a new life in this country. Thus, we believe that as new in the country basically be set on staying. People feel safe if they receive such a letter. It gives them the opportunity to learn Swedish. There is more work to get into this society. “

There’s nothing Anna Kinberg Batra rhetoric or tone implying that she wants to emphasize the Sweden Democrats’ voters right way, with the new M course.

But of course, the bourgeois parties affected by SD’s great electoral success, as they are now reforming its immigration policy.

For the Moderate means a Some of the proposals – such as the supply requirements for family reunification – a return to a political normal mode, and a spacer ring to Fredrik Reinfeldt’s liberal immigration policy.

But it also means that the Conservatives and the other increases the distance to the Centre Party leader Annie Lööf, who considers openness to the outside world as an almost sacred issue.

So it is thus three against the Centre, when the Alliance parties should try to agree before the next election.