Kristersson vs. Andersson – The prime ministerial debate in 10 minutes

It was a castle in the air that had been sawed apart by an entire corps of experts. Why did you vote no then?

You will surely also end up in a nursing home. What would you have chosen to remove if you had been able to choose between three things?

It's very nice when you come out to these places where people have been shot and show your support. Thank you very much. But I wonder, what happens the day after when all the cameras are gone? Who is it then who takes care of us who are forced to live on with these consequences? Magdalena Andersson, what do you say?

Thank you for being here, and I know that you have also engaged yourself in stopping gun violence, and I really want to thank you for that commitment as well. It is obvious that there is a lack of support for crime victims directly after it has happened. I know that the police are working more with having a coordinator who can help with contacts. But we have proposed that the municipalities should also be able to have support for people who have ended up in that kind of crisis situation. Because, just as you say, there are very many people you need to be in contact with in such a situation. And that the municipality should be able to come with a crisis coordinator in such a situation to support the families. It is important that the police can do their job. But we think that the municipality should do this on site. And the worst thing is that there are far too many people with your experiences in our country. Your story and the one from four years ago are the reason for the total overhaul we have made of crime fighting over the past four years. That doesn't help you right now. I understand that, it's terrible. But we have managed to dramatically reduce serious crime. I was in Eskilstuna the other day. 32 shootings four years ago. Two shootings. Gothenburg, no shooting in a whole year. That is a dramatic change. It was absolutely necessary so that no one else will experience this. The next thing I want to do is the crime victim perspective, always thinking about the crime victim, not the perpetrator. What we want to do is take these enormous assets that we are now taking from criminals, their luxury cars, their watches and all the things. That money should go straight to crime victims. That money, about a hundred million right now, that we have collected with the new legislation, should go to Swedish crime victims.

How?

By increasing the crime victim hotline's opportunities, the crime victim compensation. You shouldn't have to collect the money yourself, but the state should be the one collecting the money. And now when we take such large sums from these gang criminals, properties, cars and many other things, then there is plenty of money that should go directly to those who have been affected by serious crime. But above all, the crimes should not take place at all. And finally, we are on the right track in Sweden when it comes to crime fighting.

I have a question. What do you want to do for all of us who live in the swamp to be able to survive?

We have systems in Sweden and I think it is incredibly impressive. Your journey as a personal journey is fantastic. Then I understand that one also wants to be able to work and support oneself. But already the journey to becoming sober, and my wife who is a priest would say that being saved is a wonderful thing too. Just that is a life journey. Then we have different welfare systems to help people. If you can work, then you should primarily work. If you cannot work, then we have systems for that too, what was previously called early retirement, sickness benefit, and then we have other allowances as well. But I understand that you fundamentally want to work and could work too. And then employers have quite a lot of support to get help if you, for example, have certain limitations such as a wheelchair might entail. So I hope it goes really well.