Member of Parliament Teresa Carvalho (S) wants young people to be forced to go to a job within the municipality.
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Carvalho’s working group is presenting its first proposal now, more will come in the spring. Internally, it is believed to come up with a line for S’s previously controversial proposal.
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Teresa Carvalho, 39, Member of Parliament from Norrköping, is seen as one of S’s brightest names right now and leads one of the hottest working groups.
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Tobias Baudin and Magdalena Andersson appointed the working groups last year.
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Young people should be able to be marked around the clock, according to the new S proposal.
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Last spring, S leader Magdalena Andersson and party secretary Tobias Baudin appointed eleven working groups that will renew the Social Democrats’ policy in a number of areas.
During the autumn, the groups produced analyzes of society and which factors lie behind the problems Sweden has, including growing gang violence. Several have pointed to high immigration and segregation as explanations, which has led to internal criticism that the party’s rhetoric is reminiscent of that of the Sweden Democrats.
The article in brief
The Social Democrats’ working group, which will come up with measures to break up the gangs and break new recruitment, is now presenting its first political proposal.
It is about giving social services more tools to prevent young people from being drawn into gangs.
A young person on the run should, for example, be able to be forced to work or be monitored around the clock.
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“Need strict immigration”
However, Riksdag member Teresa Carvalho does not agree, she believes that there is a big difference between S and SD. Carvalho leads one of the groups that is internally expected to come up with the most controversial proposals – that of breaking up the gangs and breaking new recruitment.
– When we say that we need strict immigration, for us it means that we now need the conditions to build a stronger community in which everyone, regardless of ethnicity or religion, can be included. Then society must step in and offer the requirements and support required, she says.
Carvalho sees a number of explanations behind the growing gang violence. Immigration, lack of integration, the reorganization of the police in the 2010s and the fact that society has withdrawn are among the things she mentions. But also negative values.
– Where social problems are concentrated, it has become a breeding ground for unhealthy norms and values. We see how young guys idolize thugs and learn to hate the police at an early age.
The S working groups must present their proposals by June at the latest. The first from Teresa Carvalho’s group is about expanding the Act on the care of young people:
– For quite some time, many have pointed to the need for sharper tools for social services, more compelling measures, to access these young people. But few have pointed concretely to what it could be. That is what we are now doing, she says.
High immigration, lack of integration and negative values are behind what Teresa Carvalho sees as explanations for growing gang crime.
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Teresa Carvalho is interviewed by Expressen’s reporter Anette Holmqvist.
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S representatives such as Teresa Carvalho point to immigration as part of the explanation behind growing crime. Today, she is self-critical and believes that S, even herself, now more than before speaks openly about the problems that exist.
Photo: Lisa Mattisson
Personal monitors
Primarily, Teresa Carvalho’s group wants young people to go to school, the party has previously proposed compulsory high school until the age of 18. If that doesn’t work, they should instead be forced into a job, through a work obligation in the public sector.
– Above all, I think it’s about jobs within the municipality, but it could also be authorities and state companies, even Samhall. What I primarily think about is cleaning, housekeeping, mowing the grass, washing the municipality’s car pool.
The social services must also be able to point-mark young people on the move with personal monitors during all or part of the day, force them to wear foot shackles and be controlled electronically. All measures must be able to be used individually or in combination with each other.
Carvalho admits the measures would be costly, but thinks it’s worth it. A gang criminal costs even more, she reasons.
– The public sector must simply bear an increased cost here and now in order to save society very high costs and more serious crime in the future.
Shooting star in S
Lawen Redar, who leads the S group for a common language in Sweden, is seen together with Teresa Carvalho as the party’s hottest name right now.
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According to sources within S, the people who have been tasked by the party leadership to lead the working groups are those who are seen as possible ministers in the event of an S election victory in 2026.
Carvalho, who together with member of parliament Lawen Redar is seen as S’s hottest name right now, states that she is “proud and happy” to be part of the work.
– I feel that it is a genuine desire on the part of Magdalena Andersson and Tobias Baudin to use the time in opposition to really examining ourselves and practicing the necessary self-criticism. It is needed if you are to be able to look forward in a credible way and make repositionings, she says.
This is how the S group wants to expand LVU
The working group wants the efforts within the framework of the Act for the care of young people, LVU, to be expanded and for the Social Services to be given the opportunity to take more measures.
Among other things, it is about being able to assign a young person to a certain job, a work duty. But also for teaching through compulsory education. In addition, they want a young person to be able to be monitored all or part of a day, either by assigning a personal companion who points the person or through a digital foot shackle that monitors the young person geographically.
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