Armed Deadline will test DIE – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Since the mid- January the parties subject to DIE regularly shut in at the Defense Ministry in Stockholm for hard negotiations on the defense appropriations. No later today, Thursday, they’ll be ready to plan a defense bill April 24 will be held.

It differs, however billion between government and opposition bid.

In March, the government presented its bid for 6.2 billion extra to the defense until 2020. In connection with the said Left Party leader Jonas Sjöstedt Svenska Dagbladet that “it is good that the government is not entered in an auction with the bourgeois to invest more and more”. But that’s probably exactly what one is forced to now inside the closed doors.

The Conservatives have demanded 10 billion extra, the Liberal Party 18 billion. To agree therefore required that the government sweetens its bid.

I DIE singled defense as one of three areas where the government and the opposition to cooperate. The Left is not covered by the deal, but the government needs the party’s support for it to get through their budgets. So in the end ends up defending the billions probably in the lap of V.

Stefan Ring, defense expert and the Secretary General of the General Defence Association, believes that the chances of M and V are able to agree on defense in general is rather non-existent. The lots covered by DIE, according Ring, allow the government to put a defense bill that is not V is on. Then pushed the issue up to the autumn budget, then the government must find a settlement with V.

Also the Green Party can create problems, according Call.

– The problem is how far the S can take with him MP upwardly to meet Alliance. Once you have got with them to get even with him V.

Ulf Bjereld S-labeled professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg, says that it teeters on the blocks over head time can be agreed. And an absence of a settlement could undermine die.

– This means that if any party at a later stage really want to break DIE is easier to do so if it has not reached its goals. Then you can point out that it still does not work, he said.

Left leader Jonas Sjöstedt, has previously said that the party agrees to the government’s bid. Now he says that V obvious to negotiate defense spending by the government.

The defense included in dying, you are part of the financial cooperation. How will you be able to meet the Alliance when FP want to invest 12 billion more than the government?

– It’s so Jan Björklund doing in defense policy. When he has no power over it, he suggests a lot of money. Once he has it, he proposes no money. It follows a pattern, says Jonas Sjöstedt to SvD.

He does not want to talk about was the pain threshold of the lot is located.

The Social Democrats Party Secretary Jämtin told SvD that the bourgeois must be able to answer how they will finance increased defense spending and what to cut.

– We have agreed on the defense. However, the bourgeoisie scattered around how much the increase should be. But it’s good anyway that we agree on the need for an increase.

The Green Party party secretary Anders Wallner says he is confident that it will agree, but also believe that the Left has to be with.