The blocks were agreed – no extra election – Aftonbladet

The blocks were agreed – no extra election – Aftonbladet

Stockholm. Government and Alliance parties agree on how a minority government should be able to run the country.

This means that there will be no extra election.

– It is a sign of strength for Swedish democracy, says Stefan Löfven.

The Social Democrats, Conservatives, the Green Party, the Centre Party, Liberal Party and the Christian Democrats agree on how Sweden is to be ruled by a minority government. The announcement comes just days before the government supposed call new elections, to be held March 22.

– I’m happy for the constructive talks with the four bourgeois parties. Now, I also believe that the Swedish people are satisfied that we have taken responsibility, says Prime Minister Stefan Löfven (S).

The agreement, which the parties have chosen to call December agreement, means that a minority government should be able to get through its budget that breakaway from it must not be done and that the prime ministerial candidate who collects support “from the party constellation that is larger than all other possible government constellations will be presented.”

– I am happy and proud for Sweden’s sake that we now agreed to Sweden now to be ruled by the largest, no matter who it is, says Moderates elect party leader Anna Kinberg Batra.

Took off last week

It was only last week that negotiations took off, according to the KD-leader Göran Hägglund.

– You have been thrown between hope and despair. I think that the agreement is good for our country, but I do not think it favors no party special. Yet three days ago, I was quite unsure if this would go in goal, he says.

Even spokesperson Gustav Fridolin (MP) notes that the agreement was sitting deep inside.

– It is evident that there has been a very hard lock recent months, he said.

It is not the party leaders who negotiated the deal, but mostly group leaders and economic policy spokespersons.

– The phone has been hot, says Gustav Fridolin.

No knockouts

The agreement applies during this parliamentary term and the next, until 2022. The first time this Agreement, a practical significance is when the government puts its budget in the spring and the bourgeois then abstains. To breakaways from the budget may not be made was important for the Centre Party to get.

– The budget should be treated as a whole, and a minority government should be able to get through its budget, says C-leader Annie Loof.

To the promised additional choice now is not realized she sees as positive.

– We have prepared ourselves for an election campaign and prepared the organization of an election campaign. We were motivated for this, but it is also an unnecessary extra election and we are pleased that the government has chosen to listen to our proposal for minority governmentality.

Energy, Defense and pension

But the Sex parties also agree to attempt to have broad agreements on defense and energy. The Green Party will now also be in the so-called retirement group, where the Social Democrats and the bourgeois agreed in 1994, but without the veto.

– I want to emphasize that this does not mean that the Green Party will be a full participant, but that they are transparent, says Hägglund.