Alliance: Short summer holidays for newly arrived children – Swedish Dagbladet

the Alliance held a press conference in Almedalen on Tuesday. Photo: Yvonne Åsell

The Alliance’s overall party secretary Tomas Tobé (M), Michael Arthursson (C), Maria Arnholm (L) and Acko Ankarberg Johansson (KD) had called a press conference on Tuesday morning to present a review of government policy.

– in Sweden we have a historically weak government that does not see the social problems that we face, said Tomas Tobé.

he pointed first on public finances that he means neglect.

– According to the government’s latest forecast is about spending increases of 77 billion to 2020, said Tobé and pointed to the calculations show that health insurance will that cost twice as much in 2020 compared to 2014.

Furthermore talked party secretaries on “a failed jobbmål”. The Centre Party’s Michael Arthursson highlighted the government’s ambition to Sweden in 2020 to get the EU’s lowest unemployment.

The Alliance argued that government policy not created any jobs and mean that the contrary will have negative trend in employment.

– they have the government in two years and there is no suggestion that says they will approach the target. NIER’s forecast shows that the gaps on the contrary, will widen, said Michael Arthursson.

The Alliance also argued that the government impairs the “common people economy” and points out that 1.3 million Swedes had raised income taxes.

– One of three midwives and four out of ten police officers have less money in their pockets, said liberals Maria Arnholm on Tuesday.

Acko Ankarberg Johansson (KD) said it is all about “hearty betrayal” and talk further about business conditions during the red-green government.

– It had been possible to reverse a trend of betting on companies, the Prime Minister said that it will improve conditions for business, she said, said that the government does not.

the Alliance also presented new proposals for better integration in school.

the first is to increase the salary of teachers in the so-called exclusion areas. Among other things, wants to invest at least 600 career teaching positions.

The alliance would also introduce an active choice of school for all. This means that all parents would have to choose a school for their children.

school holidays wants to halve for newly arrived children, on the grounds that a long summer holiday lets newcomers risk getting hard to maintain knowledge of the Swedish language.

Lena Micko believe that the proposal is the most important in the school area.

– Summer vacation is too long. Recreation center closes and you have eight to ten weeks when you do not have a chance to do anything, she said.

Lena Micko want principals to determine how long a child should have shortened summer vacation, but she thinks it can about the first year when you come to Sweden.

the Alliance will present the common school proposals in a bill in the fall.