Ulf Kristersson (M) recently warned of Russian infiltration in Swedish administration. When it was revealed that leading figures within SD have Russian connections, the Prime Minister chose to attack the Social Democrats, before he realized the seriousness. The SD's coordinator in the Government Office is said to have good insight into highly confidential matters, not least Sweden's commitment to Ukraine. How many shortcomings will we have to accept before Kristersson's days are numbered?
Gunnar Hellman, Upplands Väsby
Ali Alabdallah wrote brilliantly in DN about citizenship and acceptance. I have never understood where this comes from that all foreign-born people who moved here want to become Swedes. I have lived in Sweden for 50 years and neither I nor the Finns I have met here have ever wanted to become Swedes. Lots of people in the world live in countries they were not born in. The Swedes who moved to Spain, do they want to become Spaniards? Hardly think so. They are Swedes living in Spain. And Ali, I think you should continue to be a Syrian living in Sweden. And as you wrote, you don't have to ask to be accepted. You should be.
Marja Häkämies, Stockholm
One in four voters can apparently consider changing blocks, which equates to ideological residency. As a 68 generation, you think that it cannot be true. Then you see interviews with mainly young people for whom the choice seems to be between Ica or Coop - where do I get the most for the money? So yes, the parties' extra price campaigns with everything from low gas prices to cheaper steak seem to be well entrenched in the least informed strata of the electorate.
Lars Wengrud, Bromma
Do the politicians think that we voters are stupid and believe all the promises they make in the election campaign? Or is it the politicians who are stupid?
Mikael Albinson
Feeling great anxiety before the election. Who and what should you vote for? According to all statistics, the Social Democrats are leading so far. Okay, so what? Please Mrs. Magdalena Andersson, don't fall into the same trap as the party did last time and ally yourself with the Green Party! Remember what an opportunity for good action you got when they stormed out! As a resident of a municipality where the MP had great influence, I say: no thank you! They don't seem to have the understanding that our country is 250 miles long and that we have left the farming community and move where we need to, for example for work - but still want to keep the opportunity to easily meet, visit relatives and friends. Public transport is actually not everywhere in our country. If you need someone or a few to get a government together, look beyond the block borders! What a win if cross-bloc cooperation came about and without SD influence!
Elisabet Wiklund, Älvsjö
I reflect on how the Social Democrats sit back and rely on old merits. Seen and heard little in the debate, are unclear in their answers regarding government formation. Feels like the party I've always voted for is stuffy and arrogant. You got my vote this time too. Now as the least bad, not as the best option.
Helena Persson
The base of our society is the home. Build more rental properties at reasonable prices and introduce a temporary, but substantial, bank tax!
Gunilla Skoglund
Which politician is telling the truth? In all the hearings and debates, all the politicians accuse each other of not telling the truth. Who is telling the truth then? And so are we going to vote for all the politicians who don't tell the truth? What should the young people who vote for the first time think?
Eva Johansson
No, the Liberals are no longer a liberal party, even though they were behind some liberal reforms in the school field. A liberal party would have left the Tidö collaboration as soon as it became clear what influence SD would have. Many party members did this, but not party leader Simona Mohamsson. The hug with Jimmie Åkesson (SD) should instead have been a goodbye from Tidö. The People's Party/Liberals, which for many years received my vote, no longer exists at the national level, but hopefully with other cooperation partners when it comes to the municipalities.
Birgit Harling, former teacher
A maximum of 20 students in the class and a maximum of ten right-wing extremists in the government. For your freedom.
The Liberals.
Hakon Malmborg, Bromma
Answer to Sivert Aronsson: The Liberals are diminished because of the approach and hug with the Sweden Democrats, who do not like the liberal values and politics. Therein lies the explanation for the decline of the Liberals, and rightly so.
Elsvig Eriksson, Upplands Väsby
Speaking of Max Hjelm, if the Liberals are the guarantor of mass deportations of immigrants, is the Center Party the guarantor of continued slave labor in Sweden? And who will take care of all the low-educated people who came to Sweden in about 30 years when they need help as pensioners? Our thinkers have poor perspective, it seems to me.
Bengt Ekholm
I hope we don't get a government supported by extreme parties. By extreme parties, I mean parties that partly want to pursue policies that are not based on how it looks in reality. The extreme parties I mean are the Sweden Democrats, the Left Party and the Green Party.
Anders Hulthén, early pensioner, Upplands-Väsby
Cowardly politicians promise candy and pretend it's raining, as it always has. Brave politicians promise to develop society so that we have less problems with it raining like it never did, in a changing climate.
Dag Henning, Linköping
I just want to answer Jessica Rosencrantz (M) and everyone else who thinks it's good that we have Europe's second lowest petrol price: How good is it considering how the petrol and diesel engine works, that to start and run it sucks in clean air and after combustion emits a deadly toxic gas? How good is it? Is petrol too cheap?
Lars Olsson, Ljusterö
Answer to Anders Jonsson (Noted on September 3): Sweden imports electricity when the production is not enough, for example on a windless day during the winter. In 2025, we imported 5.2 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity – and exported 38.6 TWh. Sweden is not an isolated island. But of course, we need to increase electricity production to cope with the electrification of society. But not necessarily with expensive nuclear power, which would be subsidized with up to SEK 1,000 billion by Sweden's hard-working taxpayers. I hope that DN can make a factual article about our electricity system, as has been done in many other interesting and complex issues.
Pernilla Strömgren, Karlstad
On the submission site, Mikael Albinson asks if the leftist Gerty Fexler Höjer is in the right party when she (according to Expressen) indulged in a share dividend of SEK 8.1 million from her and her husband's welfare company. The money has, among other things, gone to a high-status car and ditto motorcycles. One answer could be that those in power in left-wing societies/dictatorships like to use public and other citizens' funds to enrich themselves and like to show off their material assets to other citizens of society, with the aim of instilling respect and demonstrating their power and wealth. Consequently, Gerty Fexler Höjer is in the right political party.
Annica Hällzon, Örebro
Is Ukraine a training ground where increasingly faster drones are tested for even greater tasks? The hybrid war also looks like a prelude to an attack on one or more NATO countries.
Claes Thulin
Göran Greider's review in DN of siblings Åsa and Mårten Wikfors's 320-page book "Demokratins ödesstund" is extremely thought-provoking. He sees a blind spot in their reasoning about – as in everyone's approach to – the supremacy of the digital world and distortions of our reality. Herbert Marcuse, who coined the term "one-dimensional man" in the 1960s, would have applauded him and at the same time turned in his grave at the mere sight of our pampered, passivated lifestyle.
Anders Wirfält
"All of Sweden picks up trash." However, the rubbish is collected in plastic bags specially made for this occasion. A classic case where the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing.
Erik Kjellén
There is hope! At a demonstration for a humane migration policy, a little girl, 4-5 years old, stepped up to the stage and wanted to sing a song. She got that. She grabbed the microphone and began to dance in her fine dress while chanting "Solidarity. We only have one planet. Solidarity. We only have one planet. Solidarity..." and so on until she had the whole square chanting the old slogan. Think that the word solidarity is still alive with the youngest! Then there is hope for the world. A new generation is ready to follow in Greta Thunberg's footsteps and can replace us old people who soon can no longer. Just hope she is not seen as a terrorist by the prime minister.
Elisabet Näsman, Uppsala
Environmental demonstrations
requires more reactions
and preferably promotions!
Berit Dreyfert
Many journalists need to improve their Swedish. It is not called "due to health reasons" but "due to health reasons" or "due to failing health".
Gunnar Kihlstedt
50,000 demonstrate in the streets, one text after another wonders why the climate issue is not raised. Even DN's own writers wonder why the climate is not debated. (On the editorial page Isobel Hadley-Kamptz, in the culture section Johanna Frändén.) I have asked the question to both climate editor Peter Alestig and editor-in-chief Peter Wolodarski without receiving an answer. Countless contributors have also raised the question, but there are no answers. Why is the issue not raised in interviews with the parties or in the discounts? Is it because the journalists have tired of the question? Is it that they just want it to "heat up", someone to "win" a debate? What contempt for us voters! The wallet is not everything!
Ewa Rabén, (poor) pensioner
In Ekot's final debate before the election, KD leader Ebba Busch referred to the "Tomas di Leva doctrine: Whom to believe". I refer to the "Trio me' Bumba doctrine: We shall live for each other".
Roland Ingemarsson, Hellvi
Before the election, there is a rush of information and hearings, the latter an hour of television for each party leader. Nowhere is the particularly important issue, that of the climate, even mentioned. It has a completely different dignity from the others. What will posterity say about the 2026 election?
Åke Sintring, Laholm
On September 1, it was time for Magdalena Andersson (S) to be questioned by journalists Camilla Kvartoft and Anders Holmberg in SVT. For me, this was a horrible experience. The journalists' pushy manner and lecture reduced her to the level of a 5-year-old. The disrespect for her was total. Although she answered calmly, the questions were pestered again and again. A proper hearing of all party leaders should be customary.
Ann-Marie Gunnarsson, Kungälv
The election campaign has now turned into a political response to "Dirty dancing". Pro-dancers are Expressen and the party role on social media.
Olov Törnqvist
Opinions about DN
A stone-rich count dies at the age of one hundred. An inheritance dispute arises between nobles, with the consequence that estates and assets that have long been held together are at risk of being divided. Danger and danger: the enormous fortune may not go to a single heir. DN devotes a lot of space to who lived in which castle, court connections and the counts' hurt feelings. In previous reporting, we have read about battles over the right to hunt on the properties, well-waxed floors and shiny silver. A recurring argument is that a great cultural value is threatened if the property is divided. However, cultural heritage does not cease to exist because the billion-dollar fortune goes to several people instead of one. Behind the talk about "keeping the estate together" is a highly material interest in a single heir being able to keep as much as possible in private ownership. You hardly need to be particularly socialist to roll your eyes at the reasoning. Interest in nobility, castles, royalty and family intrigue can of course also be found among Swedish subjects. But for that kind of journalism there is already Svensk Damtidning, or the magazine Connoisseur for those already possessed. Why doesn't DN leave this story to publications that specialize in the flair and accumulated opulence of royalty and nobility?
Finn Filen, Huddinge
