Reinfeldt junior: M-voters switch to S – due to SD cooperation

Fredrik Reinfeldt’s 32-year-old son Gustaf Reinfeldt has taken over as opposition councilor and group leader for the Moderate Party in Sundbyberg. He is concerned about the “harsh climate” in today’s politics and testifies to how his acquaintances have stopped voting for the Moderates after the cooperation with the Sweden Democrats.

In an interview with Expressen on Tuesday, Gustaf Reinfeldt reveals that he and his wife have taken the uncomfortable step of selling their home in Täby and now rent an apartment in Sundbyberg. This is to ensure that a new generation of Reinfeldts continues to work within the Moderates.

If Gustaf Reinfeldt gains the voters’ trust next year, he does not want to form a government similar to the Tidö cooperation at the national level, but rather wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and exclude the Sweden Democrats from influence.

This is because he believes that the Sweden Democrats are not a bourgeois party, and cooperation can only be considered between the so-called Alliance parties M, KD, L, and C. Gustaf Reinfeldt already knows the winning recipe for taking power and avoiding SD’s influence.

– I believe that the work ethic and liberal reforms are best implemented with as much moderate influence as possible and with partners who are bourgeois. That is, within the Alliance, he tells Expressen.

Friends no longer vote for M

In the interview, the M-top in Sundbyberg states that many of his friends outside of politics voted for the Moderates ten years ago. But since then, the so-called right-wing voters have abandoned the party and switched to the Social Democrats.

Here too, Gustaf Reinfeldt has a solution to win back right-wing voters from the left.

– To win back the voters, Reinfeldt believes that M must paint a bright vision for the future and focus more on education, welfare, combating segregation, and getting more people into work.

Gustaf Reinfeldt, Fredrik Reinfeldt, and Joe Biden. Facsimile Instagram

Criticized for Fredrik Reinfeldt’s politics

In the interview, Gustaf Reinfeldt expresses his concern about the harsh debate climate in Sweden and how he is often criticized for his father, the former Moderate Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt’s, politics – especially in connection with the infamous “open your hearts” speech from 2014.

He describes the political conversation climate as “sad” and highlights, among other things, Sweden Democrat’s Member of Parliament Jessica Stegrud’s comment after the terrorist attack against Swedes in Brussels, where she believed that Fredrik Reinfeldt should have been forced to sit in the football arena without police protection.

She believed this because he had been involved in laying the foundation for the current migration policy.

The former Prime Minister’s son calls the statement “a grotesque reaction” and sees it as “an example of the exacerbated climate” in Swedish politics.

– I don’t want us to have it like that in Swedish politics, he says.