Moderates say 70 billion kronor in savings will pay for their election promises

Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson set out savings of 70 billion kronor to cover election pledges worth 68 billion: 40 billion from cutting agency bureaucracy and setting up a waste commission, 21 billion from lower structural unemployment, reduced taxes on labour and adjustments to the A-kassa unemployment insurance, and 10 billion from tackling welfare fraud. None of the funding should be obtained in a way that affects hard-working people, she said. The party also wants to shift part of the international aid budget to welfare and defence.

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