Follow-up of the New Powers

The plan safeguards personal integrity, wants to counteract growing surveillance and registration and requires effective and independent systems to review the professions that exercise violence. Monitoring the expanded powers within a year, including from a children's perspective and with a proportionality test, is precisely such a review. The plan thus speaks to the committee's reasons that the powers are already delimited and documented.

• protection of private lifeweak support»Alla människor har rätt till en bred privat sfär« (party programme ↗)“All people have the right to a broad private sphere”
• independent review of authoritiesdecisive»oberoende system för att granska de yrkesgrupper, till exempel polisen« (party programme ↗)“independent systems to review the professions, for example the police”
• children's best interests first»Vänsterpartiets politik ska utformas så att barnens bästa kommer i första rummet.« (party programme ↗)“Left Party policy shall be designed so that children's best interests come first.”
• institutional racism»institutionella processer som producerar olika former av rasifierad« (party programme ↗)“institutional processes that produce various forms of racialized”

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The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan imposes on society the duty to protect personal privacy and establishes the position of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and an explicit anti-racist stance. A review of the expanded control powers within a year, including from a child perspective, is a way to fulfil these commitments without restricting the tools the plan otherwise wants to give authorities. The plan does not state whether documentation requirements in themselves are sufficient.

• protection of personal privacydecisive»Det är samhällets absoluta skyldighet att skydda friheten och den personliga integriteten« (party programme ↗)“It is society's absolute duty to protect freedom and personal privacy”
• the Convention on the Rights of the Child»Alla barn ska ha rätt till en trygg uppväxt i enlighet med FN:s barnkonvention.« (party programme ↗)“All children shall have the right to a safe upbringing in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.”
• counter ethnic profiling»Socialdemokraterna är ett antirasistiskt parti« (party programme ↗)“Social Democrats are an anti-racist party”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan requires that political decisions are preceded by child impact analysis and opposes disproportionate intervention in integrity, which presupposes that new coercive powers are tested against their actual effects. The requirement for follow-up within one year, including from a child perspective, is a way to secure just that proportionality assessment. The plan speaks to the substantive matter, not to the follow-up's timeframe.

• child impact analysisdecisive»beslut bör föregås av en barnkonsekvensanalys.« (party programme ↗)“decisions should be preceded by a child impact analysis.”
• proportionality in coercive measures»alla lagar som innebär oproportionerliga ingrepp i« (party programme ↗)“all laws that entail disproportionate intervention in”
• prevent ethnic profiling»Människor diskrimineras på grund av sin etnicitet,« (party programme ↗)“People are discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity,”
• monitoring of operations»Kvaliteten ska ständigt följas upp med« (party programme ↗)“Quality shall be continuously monitored with”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan requires that all legislation is reviewed for its impact on personal integrity and that there is proportionality between the intervention and the law's purpose, which directly supports the requirement for follow-up of the expanded powers within a year. The plan also lifts children's rights and perspective as of greatest importance, which supports that the follow-up is done also from a child's perspective. The plan therefore supports the counter-proposal's requirement in substance.

• proportionality requirementdecisive»Det måste finnas en proportionalitet mellan lagstiftningens inskränkning av medborgarnas integritet och lagarnas syfte.« (party programme ↗)“There must be proportionality between the law's restriction of citizens' integrity and the laws' purpose.”
• integrity review of lawsweak support»All lagstiftning bör prövas mot dess påverkan på människors personliga integritet.« (party programme ↗)“All legislation should be reviewed for its impact on people's personal integrity.”
• child rights perspective»Av största betydelse är då barnens rättigheter och perspektiv.« (party programme ↗)“Of greatest importance are then children's rights and perspective.”
• counter discrimination»Mer måste göras mot diskriminering.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“More must be done against discrimination.”

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The plan explicitly says all new bills shall be analysed from an integrity perspective and that protection of the individual's integrity shall be strengthened, and that supervision of government exercise of power against individuals should be developed. A follow-up of the expanded powers within a year is exactly such a proportionality check. That the children's convention is Swedish law also supports the requirement for a child perspective in the follow-up.

• integrity review of legislationdecisive»Alla nya lagförslag ska analyseras ur integritetssynpunkt.« (party programme ↗)“All new bills shall be analysed from an integrity perspective.”
• strengthened integrity protection»Skyddet för den enskildes integritet ska stärkas.« (party programme ↗)“Protection of the individual's integrity shall be strengthened.”
• supervision of government power»Tillsynen över myndigheternas maktutövning mot enskilda behöver utvecklas« (party programme ↗)“Supervision of government exercise of power against individuals needs to be developed”
• child rights perspective in decisions»Genom att FN:s barnkonvention införlivats i svensk lag tydliggörs« (party programme ↗)“By the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child being incorporated into Swedish law is clarified”

The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.

The plan makes follow-up and quality control an important political task and requires great caution in handling personal data, which speaks for a follow-up of the new control powers. The child's perspective shall according to the plan always be present in migration matters, which supports that the follow-up is also done from a child's perspective.

• follow-up as political taskdecisive»Utvärdering, kostnadsuppföljning och kvalitetskontroll är därför viktiga politiska« (party programme ↗)“Evaluation, cost monitoring and quality control are therefore important political”
• care with integrity»försiktighet och respekt för den personliga integriteten« (party programme ↗)“caution and respect for personal integrity”
• the Child Convention as basis»ska ske med utgångspunkt i FN:s barnkonvention« (party programme ↗)“shall take place based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child”
• legally certain processing»åstadkomma korta handläggningstider, rättssäkerhet« (party programme ↗)“achieve short processing times, legal certainty”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan has no point on following up on immigration control's powers, but is based as a principle on the idea that completed reforms should be constantly evaluated and reassessed against research and proven experience. It also requires that personal integrity be protected, which speaks for proportionality control of new powers. Derived from these principles, support is given to the demand for follow-up within one year.

• constant evaluationdecisive»beredskap för att utvärdera, ompröva, förändra och förbättra« (party programme ↗)“preparedness to evaluate, reassess, change and improve”
• protect personal integrity»Den personliga integriteten ska värnas, såväl från intrång« (party programme ↗)“Personal integrity must be protected, both from intrusion”

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The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan demands more controls and lowered thresholds in immigration and enforcement work and establishes that few measures are too far-reaching when illegal migration and criminal environments are to be pushed back. The counter-proposal's requirement for a time-bound follow-up including from a child perspective, to ensure proportionality, is a brake that the plan does not call for. The plan does not address follow-up requirements, so the position is derived from the nearest principle.

• more controls and deportationsdecisive»Bekämpa skuggsamhället och illegal migration med fler kontroller och fler utvisningar« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Combat the shadow economy and illegal migration with more controls and more deportations”
• lower thresholds in enforcement»Trösklarna för att ta i förvar och utvisa personer samt verkställa utvisningar behöver också sänkas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The thresholds for detaining and deporting people and enforcing deportations also need to be lowered.”
• few measures too far-reaching»Sverigedemokraterna anser att få politiska åtgärder är för långtgående när det kommer till att pressa tillbaka både de kriminella gängen och den kultur som gör att de får fäste.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden Democrats believe that few political measures are too far-reaching when it comes to pushing back both criminal gangs and the culture that allows them to gain a foothold.”