The Moderates and the Social Democrats both promise to stop borrowing next term
Ulf Kristersson and Mikael Damberg both say that permanent spending reforms next term will have to be funded, after a term in which the government has been criticised for borrowing unusually heavily. If the Social Democrats take power this autumn, Damberg promises that borrowed money is finished. The National Institute of Economic Research puts the total room for reform at around 94 billion kronor for the whole of the next term, which is less than the just over 100 billion that the autumn budget, the spring budget and the extra amending budget together spent on reforms in the past year alone, among them a temporary fuel tax cut, cheaper public transport and rearmament. Damberg says he no longer recognises the Moderates and argues that the party borrowed for reforms while cutting taxes sharply.