> The Riksdag voted in favour of the Government’s proposal which includes the abolition of permanent residence permits for people in need of protection and people who have been long-term residents in Sweden, as well as their relatives.

>The proposal is one component of the efforts to adapt Sweden’s regulatory framework for the granting of international protection and asylum procedures to the minimum guarantees set out in EU law. The purpose of the adaptation is to create better conditions for integration and to reduce social exclusion by reducing asylum-related immigration.

Not all route for permanent residence. Only for asylum seekers. Employment or academic based route are still there it seems.

Employment and academic status are not permanent, nor are visum based on those without conditions.

Permanent residence was more akin to citizenship in that they were permanent and mostly unconditional. The discussion in Sweden around them often came into a discussion around what the difference between citizenships and permanent residence, and if that difference was meaningful.

The practical difference between Permanent residence and citizenship was that:

Swedish citizenship allows a person to be elected into parliament, employed by the police or work in the military.

Swedish citizenship are treated by other countries as Swedish citizens according to international relationships.

Swedish citizens that live aboard can vote in Swedish elections

That was it. Without permanent residence people need to become citizens to get the same rights as citizenship, as all other form of visums has conditions and limits.

Correct. This is decoupling LTR from Permanent residency, not banning permanent residency.