Following the announcement that restaurants will no longer be allowed to sell alcohol after 10 pm, the Liberals are now demanding that the restaurant industry be compensated.
The party can envisage both direct industry support or, for example, a reduction in employer contributions.
Liberal Party leader Nyamko Sabuni.
– We demand that the government presents a plan for how to replace the restaurant industry after these stricter restrictions, which in principle mean a business ban. It is not leadership to take infection control measures that affect the individual industry and then not present how it should be replaced. We risk losing many good and prosperous companies in bankruptcy, and thereby also increase unemployment.
Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced Stefan Löfven that after November 20, it will no longer be allowed to sell alcohol in the country’s restaurants after ten o’clock in the evening, as part of the work to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
Just hours later, when the party leaders met for talks on the corona situation, the Sweden Democrats demanded support for the restaurant industry. Party leader Jimmie Åkesson emphasized that it is important to help the restaurant industry now, both for the economy and to save jobs.
And now the government’s coalition party, the Liberals, is following the same line.
Nyamko Sabuni again.
– Today we have different types of compensation. It can be abolished employer contributions, it can also be another type of direct support for a specific industry. But the most important thing is that the government maintains a dialogue with those affected and together comes up with how to compensate for the loss of revenue that the restaurant industry will now receive.
According to Nyamko Sabuni the Liberals did not receive any prior information about the alcohol ban from the government. The party will now address its demand for restaurant support in the negotiations between the January parties.
Minister of Finance Magdalena Andersson does not rule out that there may be help for the restaurant industry, the issue is currently being reviewed in the Government Offices, she announced in connection with a meeting of the Riksdag’s Finance Committee.
Source: ICELAND NEWS