Government: Merger of the county administrative boards is postponed – bbc Radio

I share the picture. We need to have longer time in the us, ” says Ardalan Shekarabi (S).

the Government wants to divide Sweden into six regions. A governmental investigation has proposed that the three of them formed the next few years through a merger of the county administrative boards and county councils.

the County administrative boards would be merged by 2018, and the county councils, 2019, if the riksdag takes a decision on it. But now civilministern slowed the part that applies to a merger of county councils to 2018 because one is a majority of the replies are negative to the timetable, the astounding unreasonable enter a county.

– It is too short timetable, simply. In principle, all of the bodies that are inside of the process makes the assessment that it is for a short time, ” says Ardalan Shekarabi to the Echo.

And when will it be then?

– The alternative proposal of the county councils is 1 January 2019 but we will come back to it after the talks with the parties, ” says Ardalan Shekarabi.

Civilministern has initiated discussions with the parliamentary parties about the planned regionreformen. The next meeting is on Monday next week.

The proposed form storregion with the Västra Götaland region. A proposal that more or less shared Värmland åsiktmässigt. Right now, there is also a petition to get a referendum on the issue.

Echo/News P4 Värmland