Romson (MP): I have flaws like everyone else – Expressen

Here is Åsa Romson defense speech DN Debate .

The heavily contested spokesman writes that eight of the ten points in the Green Party’s election manifesto on climate about to be fulfilled.

the results should give her a renewed mandate, she says.

– I speak to those who now wonder where the Green Party is on the way, says Romson on Monday evening.

It has stormed several weeks now about the Green Party, with ministerial resignation and criticism of the spokespersons for the management.

It went so far to Gustav Fridolin and Åsa Romson stood for disposal to be able to get a strong mandate to Congress on May 13 to 15

Most questioned Åsa Romson been, with record-low confidence numbers and sharp internal criticism.

Now she writes a defense in Dagens Nyheter and calls for renewed confidence.

“I have personally faults like everyone else, and I have rightly been criticized in situations where I have not been enough rhetorically sharp. As one of two spokespersons, I also have responsibility for the lack of crisis management, as the Green Party had the last few weeks. “

Who are you aiming at?

– I speak to those who now wonder where the Green Party is on the way. to give an answer before Congress I would like to focus on the issues that the Green Party both formed and went into the government to meet. Then I think it was important to develop the way it looks in comparison with the election manifesto of the Congress ruled, and we went to the voters with the election, says Åsa Romson after the debate article published.

But it should not have come before, now districts already come up with proposals on the spokesperson?

– to evaluate the manifesto is something we will do for the Congress and the Congress to discuss steps further. It has been planned for a long time . in this way, this is not only a submission in this examination of leadership. it is to create discussion about the start of the party if I and Gustav have pointed out that we want to lead the Congress and after the Congress, says Romson.

“Have had difficult periods”

the move is only signed environment Minister Åsa Romson, therefore, not both spokespersons, and focuses on the environment. Eight of the ten points of the party’s election manifesto on climate and the environment is about to materialize and it is in the results she derives its mandate, she writes.

What do you say to those who are critical of how gone for MP in matters Stockholm bypass or Vattenfall’s lignite business?

– There are many issues to be discussed in the policy. Here in Stockholm’s Bypass a great ecologists Semitic question but there was nothing standing in our riksval manifesto and therefore is not mentioned in this article. When it comes to climate change is our main focus to reduce climate emissions on all the parameters you can work. In the first instance it is the Swedish emissions and those that come by how we act in Sweden. It is important that we work for coal in Europe stays in the ground.

But are you satisfied that it points to a sale of lignite business?

– I am pleased that we managed to turn the focus of Vattenfall. Away from lignite to expand operations in Germany. I am, of course, that the Green Party is not satisfied that Vattenfall has not yet chosen Green Party going to take its long-term responsibility to decommission lignite but chose a different path in its focus and proposed to the government that instead selling of the current operations.

Romson writes that she welcomes the criticism leveled against her but that she is her own harshest critic.

– I have had difficult periods during these 18-19 months that we have been in government for a number of occasions . There are many times that I think I should have done things differently from the beginning and therefore feel that I have to work with.

Many people want to see the replacement

The question is whether the post can save the remaining mouthpiece . Data argues that many delegates want to see Cooperation Isabella Lövin to replace the Romson, also challenged by names like Alice Bah Kuhnke and Karin Svensson Smith. And on Monday wrote Dagens Industri that Åsa Romson, according to sources of the newspaper, lacks support and is moving away.

Self says Åsa Romson in regular contact with the Nomination Committee.

– I know jiggle the support looks to me but I do not know, it’s Nominations Committee, to make the overall assessment of who is best placed and positioned to lead our party as spokesperson for the Congress and that they will propose.

Fridolin told the TT news agency on Monday that he is not ultimatum to both be selected.

Do you feel that you have support from him?

– both Gustav and I have to say that we worked well during the five years that we had the confidence to be the mouthpiece together. We would together like to continue to do that but the order of the party is that it is nominating committee prepares elections to both male and female voice. We do not want to order any of us will choose who we want to replace or work with.