The Sweden Democrats want to change the right of Sami villages to hunt moose on private land

Sami villages have the right to hunt elk on private land above the cultivation boundary alongside the landowner.

The so-called double registration of moose hunting has been debated for a long time. The Swedish Hunters' Association pointed out already in 2011 that it creates unnecessary conflicts and that there is a safety problem when several parties hunt on the same land.

"Create a level playing field"

At the same time, it is a civil law part of the Sami villages' reindeer husbandry rights regulated in the Reindeer Husbandry Act. The Sweden Democrats now want to change it.

- It is something that the Riksdag has at its disposal, to enact the laws we have in Sweden. From the Sweden Democrats' side, we want to review these pieces in order to create equal conditions for all citizens in Sweden, says Mattias Bäckström Johansson.

Last winter, party leader Jimmie Åkesson announced that he wanted to overturn the Girjasdomen from the Supreme Court, which gave the Sami village of Girjas the exclusive right to allow hunting and fishing.

- It is connected and it is legislation that must be changed, says Mattias Bäckström Johansson.