President complicate the work “- Swedish Dagbladet

President complicate the work "- Swedish Dagbladet

Westerberg said yesterday that he intends to ensure that party leaders believe that a new prime minister can get through a budget this fall, not only how they will vote when the Prime Minister to be appointed.

– I was very surprised and amazed when I heard the President. As far as I know, there has never been that the President highlighted the additional requirements other than that you should pass a vote of confidence. Thus complicates his government formation, which he is himself confessed, says political scientist Olof Petersson, who has written books on government formation in Sweden ..

– In addition, it is the new President, who shall be primarily responsible for this, he says.

Per Westerberg, sitting on an old term from the previous term.

Shortly, the parliament elect a new President. The legislative history of the current Constitution Act states that “it should not be ruled out that the former Speaker of the Parliament of the time winning is involved in the initial stage.”

– For now the President tied up the new in a way that probably was not the intention, says Olof Petersson.

He believes that Per Westerberg takes great liberties in relation to the Constitution. The rules for forming a government is deliberately written so as not to establish barriers to government formation. But by adding the requirement that a government has to get through its budget in the fall, making the President’s right, according to Peterson.

– Yes, it says he is himself when he finds it harder to find a a government that can get through its budget in December than one that can cope with a vote of confidence. I think it is remarkable, says Olof Petersson.

Although the professor of political science Olof Ruin react to Westerberg introduced the budget in a government process.

– This is a requirement that is not in constitutional text and not part of the President’s mission, he says to Dagens Arena.

– The President shall be probing what party leaders think and find suggestions. Yesterday, he connected together the Prime Minister he should propose to whether he gets through a budget or not. There are two different things, the President absolutely can not go out and say that “my proposal is based on how I see the potential to get through the budget,” said ruin.