Corruption

The plan identifies that criminals have found their way into the ownership structures of publicly owned enterprises and wants greater public insight to prevent fraud and effective follow-up of organised economic crime. Specific support and guidance to municipalities and regions against corruption and infiltration is a direct means for that. The plan sees crimes against public funds as a systemic problem that requires active measures, not merely existing action plans.

• criminals in welfare structuresdecisive»Privatiseringarna av välfärden öppnar upp för kriminella att sko sig på skattemedel.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Privatisations of welfare open up for criminals to profit from tax funds.”
• greater insight against fraud»Vi vill gå mot en större samhällelig insyn« (party programme ↗)“We want to move towards greater public insight”
• follow-up of organised economic crime»Det behövs en effektiv uppföljning av den organiserade« (party programme ↗)“There is a need for effective follow-up of the organised”

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 sets up prevention of corruption and improper influence as its own goal and describes how criminal networks nest themselves into the public sector. It wants to strike hard against the financing and organization of organized crime. Particular support and guidance to municipalities and regions against corruption and infiltration is thus what the plan asks for in substance.

• prevented corruptiondecisive»Förhindrande av korruption och otillbörlig påverkan.« (party programme ↗)“Prevention of corruption and improper influence.”
• strike against the economy of crime»Slå hårt mot den organiserade brottslighetens finansiering och organisation.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Strike hard against the financing and organization of organized crime.”
• combat organized crime»Kraftfullt bekämpande av organiserad kriminell verksamhet.« (party programme ↗)“Forceful combat of organized criminal activity.”
• stop welfare crime»Skattefusk, välfärdsbrottslighet och penningtvätt ska stoppas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Tax fraud, welfare crime and money laundering must be stopped.”

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 election manifesto requires strengthened inter-agency cooperation to combat organized crime's infiltration of business activities, and the party programme prioritizes welfare crime highly. The plan also sees concentration of power as corrupting and wants power to be critically scrutinized. Specific support and guidance to municipalities and regions against corruption and criminal infiltration thereby aligns with the plan's commitments.

• inter-agency cooperation against gangsdecisive»stoppa finansieringen av de kriminella gängen genom att stärka myndighetssamverkan« (2022 manifesto ↗)“stop the funding of criminal gangs by strengthening inter-agency cooperation”
• welfare crime shall be prioritized»förtroendet för våra trygghetssystem undergrävs – måste prioriteras högt.« (party programme ↗)“confidence in our security systems is undermined – must be prioritized highly.”
• combat criminal economy»Vi vill också stärka arbetet mot den kriminella ekonomin.« (party programme ↗)“We also want to strengthen the work against the criminal economy.”
• power shall be critically scrutinized»Överdriven maktkoncentration är odemokratiskt och korrumperar. Därför bör makt delas« (party programme ↗)“Excessive concentration of power is undemocratic and corrupts. Therefore power should be shared”

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 goes further than current arrangements and requires a special anti-corruption agency, tightened rules against corruption and a lobby register. It also sees infiltration as a real threat to democracy-bearing organisations. Giving municipalities and regions special support and guidance against corruption and criminal infiltration is an application of the same commitment, although the plan does not explicitly mention the municipal level.

• tightened work against corruptiondecisive»Sverige ska bli ännu mer transparent. Vi vill inrätta en antikorruptionsmyndighet, skärpa regler mot korruption och införa ett lobbyregister.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden shall become even more transparent. We want to establish an anti-corruption agency, tighten rules against corruption and introduce a lobby register.”
• resilience against infiltration»De politiska partierna är sårbara mot påverkan och infiltration.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Political parties are vulnerable to influence and infiltration.”
• openness prevents corruption»Öppenhet och transparens är grundförutsättningar för frihet, demokrati och för att förhindra korruption och övergrepp.« (party programme ↗)“Openness and transparency are basic prerequisites for freedom, democracy and for preventing corruption and abuse.”
• joint action against criminal networks»Samhället ska inte vika sig för gängen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Society shall not yield to gangs.”

The plan wants to take back power from criminals and separatists and protect public employees from harassment, including through a new crime of official harassment. Support and guidance to municipalities and regions against corruption and infiltration by criminal networks is directly in line with this and with the criminalization of municipalities' crime prevention work. The plan also states that the rule of law shall be strengthened.

• protection for public employeesdecisive»Socialsekreterare och andra offentliganställda ska skyddas mot förföljelse och utsatthet genom att ett nytt brott – tjänstemannaförföljelse – införs.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Social workers and other public employees shall be protected against harassment and victimization by introducing a new crime – official harassment.”
• statutory municipal crime prevention»Kommuners brottsförebyggande arbete ska lagstadgas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Municipalities' crime prevention work shall be enshrined in law.”
• take back power from criminals»Vi vill ta tillbaka makten från separatister i utsatta områden« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to take back power from separatists in disadvantaged areas”
• strengthened rule of law»Rättsstaten ska stärkas.« (party programme ↗)“The rule of law shall be strengthened.”

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 effective means against abuse of power and power concentration and that municipal legal disobedience be effectively addressed, which carries particular support to municipalities and regions against corruption and criminal infiltration. The election manifesto further wants authorities to be able to share information with each other to prevent and solve crimes. Integrity is in the plan a fundamental value that policy shall promote.

• effective means against abuse of powerdecisive»Det måste finnas effektiva medel mot maktmissbruk och maktkoncentration.« (party programme ↗)“There must be effective means against abuse of power and power concentration.”
• municipal legal disobedience shall be addressed»Så kallat lagtrots av kommuner i enskilda fall ska beivras på ett« (party programme ↗)“So-called municipal legal disobedience in individual cases shall be addressed in a”
• information-sharing against crime»Total översyn av sekretessreglerna, så att myndigheter kan dela uppgifter mellan sig för att förebygga och klara upp brott.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Total review of confidentiality rules, so that authorities can share information with each other to prevent and solve crimes.”
• independent municipal audit»och kompetent revision på statlig och kommunal nivå måste av detta skäl finnas.« (party programme ↗)“and competent audit at state and municipal level must for this reason exist.”

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 takes the criminal networks' and clans' infiltration of society very seriously and wants to map them, stop payments of tax money to extremists and tighten official responsibility. To give municipalities and regions special support and guidance against corruption and infiltration is a direct consequence of the demand that all public exercise of authority shall be governed by law and that tax money must not end up with criminals. The plan, however, does not name such support explicitly.

• map criminal networksdecisive»Ge Brå i uppdrag att kartlägga de kriminella klaner som är aktiva i Sverige idag« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Give Brå (the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention) the task to map the criminal clans active in Sweden today”
• tightened official responsibility»Skärpa tjänstemannaansvaret så att du som skattebetalare vet att med all offentlig maktutövning följer ett ansvar för de beslut som fattas« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Tighten official responsibility so that you as a taxpayer know that with all public exercise of authority comes responsibility for the decisions made”
• protect tax funds»Stoppa utbetalningar av skattemedel till extremister« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Stop payments of tax money to extremists”
• law-governed exercise of authority»All offentlig maktutövning ska vara lagstyrd och vägledas av« (party programme ↗)“All public exercise of authority shall be governed by law and guided by”

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 explicitly points out that clans, organized crime and Islamists infiltrating public bodies is a growing threat to the democratic model and wants to counteract the power of clans within the public sector. It also wants to strengthen accountability when handling of public resources fails and counteract systems that encourage corruption. The counter-proposal's demand for particular support and guidance to municipalities and regions against corruption and infiltration therefore follows from the plan.

• counteract infiltration of public bodiesdecisive»Att klaner, organiserad brottslighet och islamister infiltrerar samhällsorgan är ett växande hot mot den demokratiska modellen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“That clans, organized crime and Islamists infiltrate public bodies is a growing threat to the democratic model.”
• break the power of clans»Motverka klanernas makt, både inom det offentliga och inom civilsamhället« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Counteract the power of clans, both within the public sector and within civil society”
• accountability in administration»Sverigedemokraterna vill stärka möjligheter för ansvarsutkrävande när hanteringen av de offentliga resurserna brister.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden Democrats want to strengthen opportunities for accountability when handling of public resources falls short.”
• counteract corruption and fraud»Både fusk och sådana system som tenderar att locka till fusk och korruption ska motverkas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Both fraud and systems that tend to encourage fraud and corruption must be counteracted.”

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.