MP spokespersons go for re-election – without challengers – Sydsvenskan

The party needs a “fresh start”, explained spokespersons.

Confidence in management is shaken by the revelation of former Housing Minister Mehmet Kaplan’s contacts with Islamists and party executive candidate Yasri Khan’s refusal to shake hands with women – and språkrörens miserable crisis management.

Therefore spokespersons “a strengthened mandate” from the party.

– We take criticism very seriously, said Fridolin.

– Gustav and I want to continue to take responsibility. We both believe we can get stronger from this, explained Åsa Romson.

Formal they asked Now the nomination committee to do on the appointment of spokespersons for the Congress . A tactical steps in order to get more support and remain in place.

In practice, both språkrörens message to the party: Shake up a couple of new mouthpiece if you can – in three weeks!

Get think someone thinks your hand up and challenge them before the MP Congress. Therefore, the delegates referred to the reappointment of Fridolin and Romson.

– It is necessary that the issue of confidence restored. It must be examined. But I personally have confidence spokespersons said the senator Rasmus Ling from Malmö.

But several leading ecologists emphasize the importance of the organization surrounding the spokesmen emphasized.

– There may be reasons to strengthen the team they have around them, says MP Rickard Persson Helsingborg particularly disappointed that the professionalism failure of several press secretary.

Last spokesman Peter Eriksson blames a lot of the shortcomings of party secretary Anders Wallner, who at the Congress, however, replaced by Amanda Lind, MP-mayor of Harnosand.

MP Councillor Carolina Forest calls for greater clarity on the two spokespersons.

– It’s a healthy thing in a crisis. Now we have the opportunity to discuss the expectations we have on the leadership and the people we want.

Each local branch is right to send one representative per hundred members of Congress. Therefore go five representatives from Lund and the same number from Malmo to Karlstad in May.

Sofi Lemontzis and Måns Berger is the convener of Lunda- and Malmö Delegates. They will now speak up with their agent about which the Green Party leadership need.

– So far there are not any new candidates. And besides, it is irrelevant what we think as counsel. We vote as MP Lund takes the position of a member meeting on 1 May, says Sofi Lemontzis.

Also in Malmö, the members decide how their representatives vote. Therefore Mans Berger just a principled opinion about what is needed now:

– We need clear leadership and a clearer direction on how we manage our government’s role, he said.

Several opinion polls show that confidence among voters has plummeted for both Fridolin and Romson. The lowest is for her.

One theoretical possibility is that Congress decides that a spokesperson must go and stay.

But because the tip is thus, both Gustav Fridolin and Åsa Romson remains.

A fact that speaks for it is that both languages ​​pipes are also ministers. It makes it more difficult to poke them – because it would very probably lead to Stefan Löfvens red-green coalition government splits.