'It's incredible: We have effectively got through the Sweden Democrat migration policy'
A new documentary from Sweden's SVT broadcaster has shown the surprise and delight of the far-Right Sweden Democrats' leadership when they realised the extent of the policy the rest of the right-wing bloc were willing to concede.
The documentary, called Maktspelet (the power play), shows a meeting of the Sweden Democrat leadership on October 13th, the day before the Tidö Agreement was made public, where Gustav Gellerbrant, the party's chief negotiator details the policies that the party had managed to get into the deal.
"It's actually quite incredible," Gellerbrant tells his colleagues in the documentary. "We have effectively got through the Sweden Democrats' migration policy. This is a paradigm shift on a grand scale which is happening and we also have a budget that will soon be complete.
Party leader Jimmie Åkesson describes himself as "more than satisfied" with the deal.
The Tidö Agreement is the deal through which the far-right Sweden Democrats agreed to support a three-party government of the Moderate, Christian Democrats and Liberal Parties. It is named after Tidö Slott, the medieval mansion south of Västerås in Västmanland where the details of the deal was hammered out between the parties.
"Taken as a whole, it has exceeded all our expectations," group leader Henrik Vinge, who led negotiations alongside Gellerbrant, tells the meeting in the SVT documentary.
The party, he said, was now being taken much more seriously.
"We have done it well, we have impressed the others. That's something we're hearing from every direction. This picture there was of SD that we are inexperienced, and also irresponsible. No one says anything like that anymore."
"It's hard to remember anything else like this in modern times, such an enormous transformation in such a few years as what is going to take place," Vinge continues.
"It's unbelievable, actually," agrees Gellerbrant.
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The documentary, called Maktspelet (the power play), shows a meeting of the Sweden Democrat leadership on October 13th, the day before the Tidö Agreement was made public, where Gustav Gellerbrant, the party's chief negotiator details the policies that the party had managed to get into the deal.
"It's actually quite incredible," Gellerbrant tells his colleagues in the documentary. "We have effectively got through the Sweden Democrats' migration policy. This is a paradigm shift on a grand scale which is happening and we also have a budget that will soon be complete.
Party leader Jimmie Åkesson describes himself as "more than satisfied" with the deal.
The Tidö Agreement is the deal through which the far-right Sweden Democrats agreed to support a three-party government of the Moderate, Christian Democrats and Liberal Parties. It is named after Tidö Slott, the medieval mansion south of Västerås in Västmanland where the details of the deal was hammered out between the parties.
"Taken as a whole, it has exceeded all our expectations," group leader Henrik Vinge, who led negotiations alongside Gellerbrant, tells the meeting in the SVT documentary.
The party, he said, was now being taken much more seriously.
"We have done it well, we have impressed the others. That's something we're hearing from every direction. This picture there was of SD that we are inexperienced, and also irresponsible. No one says anything like that anymore."
"It's hard to remember anything else like this in modern times, such an enormous transformation in such a few years as what is going to take place," Vinge continues.
"It's unbelievable, actually," agrees Gellerbrant.
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