The Christian Democrats, the Sweden Democrats, and the Moderates, three of the four parties in Sweden's governing Tidö coalition, have previously proposed chemical castration for pedophiles before they are allowed conditional release from prison.
The Social Democrats now state they they support the proposal.
"It is reasonable to require that such treatment be carried out before release," said Teresa Carvalho, the Social Democrats' criminal policy spokesperson, to TV4 Nyheterna.
Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch, of the Christian Democrats, wrote earlier in February, on X, that “If [pedophiles] do not castrate themselves, they should be kept behind bars for a long time."
With the Social Democrats now supporting the proposal, there is a majority in favour of it in the Swedish parliament.
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