Kristersson centre-right bloc with Sweden Democrats (Tidö agreement)

Doctrine — stated goals and content

Liberal-conservative fiscal-orthodox alliance on a centre-right to right axis, reshaped by the Tidö Agreement (October 2022) in which the Sweden Democrats exchanged confidence-and-supply for co-determined policy on migration, crime, and energy. Economic content: (i) conventional fiscal-framework discipline (overskottsmal / surplus target, retained fiscal rules) combined with supply-side tax cuts — värnskatt abolition had already landed 2020 but the coalition continued lowering income tax on work, raised ROT/RUT household-services deduction ceilings, and cut fuel/diesel excise (reduktionsplikt rollback 2024); (ii) restrictive migration turn — labour-migration salary threshold raised to median wage November 2023, tightened asylum, return-migration incentive schemes; (iii) law-and-order expansion — visitation zones, expanded wiretap and anonymous-witness legislation, prison capacity buildout; (iv) energy re-pivot — explicit nuclear new-build mandate, credit-guarantee scheme for SMR and large reactors (Finansieringsmodell 2024), roll-back of pre-2022 phase-out posture, electricity-price crisis support (elprisstöd) autumn 2022 and 2023; (v) NATO accession secured (joined March 7 2024) and historic defence-budget ramp to 2% of GDP met 2024, trajectory to 2.6% announced 2024. Proponents frame the package as restoring order, energy adequacy, and fiscal credibility; critics frame it as the first formal mainstreaming of SD influence and a partial break with Swedish consensus liberalism on migration and civil-liberties.