Kristersson and Andersson clash bitterly over sentencing discount days before election
In the final major televised debate in Gävle on Wednesday, two days before Sunday's September 13 election, the tone hardened between Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and the Social Democrats' Magdalena Andersson over "mängdrabatten," the discount that reduces sentences for multiple offences. Andersson called a letter Kristersson sent her ahead of the debate "unworthy of a Swedish prime minister" and said he had "chosen political conflict instead of taking the side of crime victims," after he circulated a photo of her voting against the government's August proposal to abolish the discount entirely; the Social Democrats instead want it scrapped for sexual and serious violent offences by 2027, a plan Kristersson has dismissed as unrealistic and unfunded.