With the Swedish election just days away, the podcast this week features conversations The Local's Richard Orange had recently with two of the people in with a strong chance of becoming Sweden’s next migration minister: Ida Karkiainen of the Social Democrats and Ludvig Aspling of the Sweden Democrats.
First up: Ida Karkiainen. She is immigration spokesperson for the Social Democrats, and with her party hotly tipped to lead Sweden’s next government we wanted to find out what direction Sweden is likely to take on immigration under their leadership.
The Social Democrats have been broadly on board with many of the changes to migration law ushered in by the current government but they have also been critical of a number of issues, such at how the government has handled the teen deportation scandal and its failure to allow transitional rules for citizenship applicants.
Tune in for the full interview.
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