– We are in the second wave of a pandemic, a lurking economic crisis and the climate crisis is still here. So there is a lot to do, she says.
– That is why I think it makes sense to put the green restart together with these budget negotiations. Something is needed for us to get the economy moving and solve the climate challenges.
SF’s chairman Pia Olsen Dyhr also thinks that the merger is a good idea.
Question: Are you not nervous that when you now combine the green with the Finance Act, that it will then be more about climate than welfare?
– I think we can succeed with both. SF has ambitions for this, says Olsen Dyhr.
The Unity List votes in, and their message before the negotiations is that something must be done about climate change, while at the same time creating jobs for those who have lost their jobs.
At a press conference on Monday, Finance Minister Nicolai Wammen announced that the government will wait until early 2021 to play out climate reductions in agriculture.
However, Sofie Carsten Nielsen does not believe that agriculture is completely out of the game in the budget negotiations.
– It is fair enough that the technical things around agriculture have been postponed. But we can easily make decisions now, for example, on the set-aside of agricultural land, and we will do that, she says.
Thus, in the initial negotiations on next year’s Finance Act, the Radicals generally lay a more subdued line than the party has previously planned.
Just a month ago, in her first speech as the new leader of the Radicals, Sofie Carsten Nielsen maintained the threat of voting against the Finance Act, unless the government wanted to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, compared to 1990 levels.
That threat has been dropped.
The announcement came after Sofie Carsten Nielsen as part of the R-leadership had already once earlier in the election period threatened to overthrow the government.
The Radicals have recently been at the center of a showdown on violation cases, which has led to both a change of leadership and poor opinion polls.
Source: The Nordic Page