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The S-requirement: Elderly people should be deployed to war in the defense

The Social Democrats want to send more older people to war than they do today. This announcement comes from former Minister of Defense Peter Hultqvist (S), who is now the party's defense policy spokesperson.

It is in an interview with Dagens Nyheter at the Swedish Armed Forces in Kungsängen outside Stockholm that Hultqvist says that the defense must grow to meet "a major problem with Russia in the coming decades."

The war placement for a conscript is valid for ten years after the last training session or after employment, and at the latest until the year the person turns 47. But the Social Democrats want to change that and raise the limit. Hultqvist, however, does not want to give an answer on how old people he wants to see in the defense.

The older citizens who will then reinforce the defense, if S is allowed to decide, will contribute to having a deterrent effect against “an empire-building regime”. Furthermore, these reinforcements are now needed because the issue has “existential significance”.

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Hultqvist cannot currently answer what tasks the elderly should have, and believes that these should be adapted to their physical conditions to carry them out.

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– Then there is the question of what tasks the elderly should have. They must be related to having the physical ability to carry them out, Hultqvist tells DN.

The S-toppen also wants to see many more conscripts. Today, 8,000 conscripts are trained per year, but the Social Democrats want to see this number increase to 20,000 conscripts per year in the long term.