“The law exists because it is really needed” – work

– We see that the law exists for a reason, because it is already required. Our community is not designed for everyone. The law then sends an important signal that as a society we stand up for the equal value of all people and that we act against special treatment and discrimination.

So said General Secretary of Sweden Niklas Martinsson of Funktionsrätt About his interview with Swedish Democrat Richard Gumshof at Arbetet recently, in which he expressed his desire to investigate and possibly repeal the discrimination law.

Last Saturday, it became clear that Jamshov would become head of the Swedish Parliament’s Justice Committee. In an interview with Arbetet, he said that his personal opinion is that the law “should be repealed completely”. He wants to investigate the law so that he is not allowed to “discriminate on political grounds”.

It is not wrong to review, to see if the law is correct, said Richard Gumshov in an interview with Arbetet.

‘The main areas where we failed’

Today, discrimination must not occur based on gender, ethnicity, religion or other belief, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age or disability.

The Swedish Democrats had previously decided to push for the grounds of discrimination to be replaced in law with a rule prohibiting “unjustified discrimination”. The background is that many party members felt discriminated against due to their political beliefs, which do not form the basis for discrimination today.

Nicklas Mårtensson of Funktionsrät Sverige believes that the grounds for discrimination that exist today were set for a cause and sees no reason to remove or change them.

– The foundations that we have today are the areas in which we have particularly failed in society, and disability is the foundation. We have the basics because we’ve noticed that this is where they need it most. I do not see that there is a political majority to change it.

You do not see any interest from the other parties in changing the law?

– No I do not. This is probably due in part to the fact that work on the design of the legislation has been going on for a long time and the foundations have been laid out of need.