Policy. Referendums on any landstingssammanslagningar is current in several parts of the country, but it is unclear how politicians will deal with the results of them.
Already to the spring, the government aims to submit a proposal to form three storlän.
the Idea is to merge twelve of the counties and regions that are in use today by forming The county and Svealands county, and to allow The county to be included in today’s Västra Götaland county. It is intended that the three storlänen, or storregionerna, should be in place already in January 2019. Therefore, the government must submit a bill in march next year.
Civilminister Ardalan Shekarabi (S) had on Monday blocköverskridande talks with the other parliamentary parties on the proposal, where he “opened a discussion on how one can find agreements on the regional division”. The parties will resume discussions on two weeks.
No from L and SD
the Government’s image is that there is broad support for the storlänen among politicians and officials in the concerned regions. But in the parliament the situation is unclear.
the Liberals say ‘ no ‘ to the proposal after a consultation with länsförbunden. Also, The sweden democrats are opposed to the storlän with the argument that the citizens would come out further from the political power. If a decision on the storlän be, so shall it be preceded by referenda, consider the SD.
In the longer term it is thought that Sweden shall be composed of six major regions. The christian democratic party sees a need for a regionreform, but find inter alia, that the six counties is too little and that you have to talk more about storregionernas data.
Centre party has on the national level similar objections. At the same time is C and KD regionally for major regions in many counties. The conservatives think that the government is moving too fast.”
– We do not know how the support of concerned residents looking out, ” says Moderatledaren Anna Kinberg Batra, to the TT.
Referendums on time
the Conservatives party secretary Tomas Tobé, who took part in Monday’s talks, is skeptical because “such a reform because it does not answer the question of how we get a better health care for its citizens”.
Within the Conservatives are also available at the regional level, a large resistance against the storlänen in several places. In the Valleys, the party has launched the petition to get the county council to decide whether a referendum on the issue. Even the Conservatives in the north have taken time to campaign for the referendum.
initiate referenda has also been taken from other sources. In Norrbotten has 22 967 signatures against a storregion submitted to the landstingsfullmäktiges chairman of the board. The resistance in Jämtland have collected 20 740 signatures.
Would the ruling be against it in any referendum, it will, according to civilministern to be taken into account in the continuing partisamtalen. But Shekarabi do not want to say how you will act in such a location.
– No, it must be dealt with within the framework of the talks with the parties, ” he says.
the FACTS
Three storlän
Three new county is proposed to be in place by 1 January 2019.
The county is formed of Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland and Jämtland.
Svealands county is formed of Södermanland, Västmanland, Dalarna, Gävleborg, Uppsala and Örebro in sweden.
Västra Götaland county is formed by the region Västra Götaland and Värmland county.
In the longer term, today’s 21 counties to be replaced by six storlän/major regions.
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