Our Top 5 Priorities
A top-notch education system focused on knowledge and quality
A better integration policy focused on jobs and the Swedish language
A better elderly care with less loneliness and malnutrition
A business friendly Malmö where ideas are allowed to grow and develop
A safer Malmö with more visible police officers and more measures against criminality
Sweden's Only Truly Pro-European Party
The Liberal Party is Sweden's only truly pro-European party; we are the only party that wants Sweden to be fully integrated within the European Union, including adopting the euro as our currency. We strongly support the right for people to travel, study, work and retire freely within Europe. In addition, we believe that trade and exchange across borders, also outside of Europe, are necessities for our economic growth and welfare. Many of our challenges today, like global warming, transnational crime and terrorism, can only be properly addressed at the European, or even global, level.
We are inspired by political leaders like Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau. While we are strong supporters of market economy and entrepreneurship, we also believe that society should help and support people in need. We thus believe in a social market economy based on social liberalism.
This is Liberalism
The foundation of liberalism is the belief in a person's ability to make their own life choices. Therefore we liberals focus on individual freedom and responsibilities. With our policies, we seek to tear down obstacles and create possibilities in people's daily lives – and not to decide how people are supposed to live their own lives.
Typical liberal values comprise democracy, human rights, equality, freedom of expression, property rights and market economy. For us, these are universal values that apply everywhere. Therefore we react strongly to injustice, independent of whether it happens in Malmö or on the other side of the planet.
In our world, it should pay off to take responsibility; to study and to work. But we also have a responsibility for each other. When facing life challenges, there must be help and support from society. But the primary task of society is to help people to get back on their own feet again, and not have them stuck in lifelong welfare dependency.
The Future Starts in the Classroom
The freedom to build and shape your own life starts with knowledge. Knowledge tears down barriers, opens up new ways and strengthens the individual's ability to make his or her own decisions in life. That is why the Liberal Party works so stubbornly for better schools. We want every child, irrespective of background, to grow and develop in the Swedish school system. An equal education system of high quality is the best investment a society can make.
A good education system justifies generous funding. The Liberal Party has always prioritized education in the budget of the municipality. This priority will be even more important in the future due to the large number of children of asylum seekers that have recently arrived to Malmö and who also need a school that works for them.
An Integration Policy that Creates Possibilities and Makes Demands
During the past few years, Sweden - and Malmö - have received a large number of asylum seekers and other immigrants. This constitutes a big challenge for our integration policy.
A job, self-sufficiency and knowledge in the Swedish language are key to integration into the Swedish society. Inactivity and welfare dependency must decrease. It is also important that all welfare benefits are linked to participation in various measures, like education or internships.
We want all asylum seekers that come to Malmö to get information about the Swedish society, their rights and duties, democratic values and equality.
Enjoy Life. All Life Long.
One of the fundamental foundations of liberalism is to see every person as an individual, and not as a representative of a group. We fight for the right of every person to have power over their own life choices.
Therefore we want society to support those who need a bit more help in life. For example, our senior citizens should have more freedom to decide the type of elderly care they need. We also defend the right for disabled people to have an assistant. In our Malmö, everyone, irrespective of age, background or disabilities, should be able to live a free and independent life of high quality.
Freedom is also to Feel Safe where You Live
The rule of law is one of the cornerstones of a liberal society. Because as long as you have to be afraid, you cannot be free.
Prevention is the most important work to counteract criminality. This requires a sound policy for jobs, education and integration.
But there is also a need for a well-functioning justice system that guarantees that make things right when they have gone wrong. Therefore we want more police officers, and we want them to be more visible in public. Until the government has fixed this, we want the municipality to hire its own security guards, to be employed at specific places, like the train station area.
