Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Conscription may be reintroduced – Aftonbladet

Conscription can be reintroduced in 2019. It is expected to be proposed by the government’s investigation of a sustainable supply of staff of the Armed Forces, writes Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

The military basic training should be if the proposal apply to both women and men.

the proposal provides military training for both women and men introduced a few years, according to Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

inquiry was by the government for less than a year ago with the mission to provide suggestions on how the armed forces will eventually have a sustainable supply of staff.

the defense will according to the commission’s directive to continue “based mainly on voluntary, but where increased use of total defense duty supplements voluntariness when the war needs of the organization can not be secured by purely voluntary recruitment “.

According to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, the work is almost done and will be cleared in the next week and presented at the end of September.

Already in 2017 the country’s 17-year-olds to fill in a questionnaire as a basis for future sample to muster, writes Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. The people would then be called for enrollment of Recruitment Agency in 2018 and the military service to be running again 2019th

A few thousand people in each cohort of around 100,000 people will be taken out of military service.

Inquiry proposals are gender neutral. Women and men pattern on equal terms without quota system.

The investigator Annika Nordgren Christensen, former Defense politician and Member of Parliament for the Green Party, want not currently comment on the investigation results.

– My proposal is presented at the end September when the investigation referred to the Government and I commented then. If you read the directive, it is clear, however, which way it leans because they are clear, she says to Aftonbladet.

Although conscription reintroduced, the voluntary recruitment will remain.

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