M-members are threatening to go against the agreement in December – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

M-members are threatening to go against the agreement in December – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

During Tuesday afternoon is the Conservative parliamentary group in the meeting and shall inter alia choose who will be the new team leader for Anna Kinberg Batra, designated as party leader. The new group leader may have a difficult job of keeping the party line in Parliament.

Since the Alliance parties known as the December agreement with the government, which includes promises that allows a minority government to push through its own budget, the discontent with the party leadership emerged among the M-voters and the party.

The settlement means , among other things, that the parties behind it binds to abstain in the budget votes on the risk to the government’s budget or else folds.

Critics argue that the alliance parties through the settlement waives its opposition role and folds flat for the government.

And now the moderate MP Finn Bengtsson open out and threaten to defy the party line. He points out that he has heard much criticism both from both fellow party members as voters.

– In most situations so usually my task be to go home to my district and explain and defend the decisions we have jointly taken up here. But this is a unique location. There is an agreement that is closed without our members have been involved until afterwards. It makes me not feel bound in the same way by it. Especially when I share the criticism that has come, he says to Aftonbladet.

Finn Bengtsson mean that it is now up to the party leadership to explain the merits of the agreement for him and the other Members who feel that the decision on the settlement were not anchored in the party. They fail it feel Bengtsson not “bound” by the party line.

– If Löfven choose to insert an awful lot of clean socialist policies in the budget. Then there is a limit to how long I believe that my constituents agree that I sit and swallow all this. It would be a betrayal of them. I have to take responsibility for, he says to Aftonbladet.

The MP Isabella Hökmark (M) also states that she does not feel bound by the December agreement.

– I am not appointed to vote for S policies in parliament, so I do not think I am. The voters have chosen me to represent moderate politics, she says to DN.