Tuesday, September 23, 2014

School issue divides new government – Swedish Radio

School issue divides new government – Swedish Radio

The Social Democrats and the Green Party disagree on which party should be trained ministerial post in the next government, as echo experience. Both parties consider school issues central to the new red-green government.

On Friday Stefan Löfven meet Speaker again – and say whether the Social Democrats could form a government with Green Party. An ongoing intense negotiations, and a tug of war for the post of Minister of Education, said several sources of echo. And it is above all the responsibility for primary and secondary education. Pre-school and higher education is not as hot areas for parties.

The Green Party has clearly has identified the school as the most important issue at the side of the environment. Spokesperson Gustav Fridolin has made no secret that he wants to address school issues, in order to launch the reforms that the Greens went to the election on. Already in an interview with the newspaper Dagens Society in Almedal last year signaled his interest in a Cabinet post.

– Of course I would think that it was very fun to grab the school’s challenges, and I look that we need a new school policy, said Fridolin then.

Although the Social Democrats , the school is important, and the party is reluctant to relinquish responsibility for the elementary school and high school without a fight, said echo sources. Party leader Stefan Löfven set in June, the goal of the Swedish school in ten years will be among the top five in Europe.

– Friends, the school is the heart of the egalitarian society and therefore is also the school in the heart of the Socialist ideology, he said in Almedal last summer.

Ibrahim Izmir, which is designated as the Social Democratic candidate for the office of Minister of Education, has been unlike Gustav Fridolin ministerial experience. For social democrats, it is important to also have ministers who have served in government before.

According to the Social Democrat and political science professor Ulf Bjereld’s Social Democrats the party that has the greatest confidence in their school policies.

– It took time for the Social Democrats to reach there, and therefore wants to defend the position that skolpartiet in Sweden. It has a strong symbolic value and therefore do not want to relinquish the post in the first place anyway, says Bjäreld.

What does it clean sakpolitiskt, which of the two parties who receive the office of concerns primary and secondary education?

– Not very much. There are differences between the Green Party and the Social Democrats in the school policy. But they are not very large. I think this is very much about symbolic politics, what questions you want to associate with, and what questions they have pushed hard in the election campaign. More than the sakpolitiska differences.

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