The initiative within the Liberals, that the party should now announce that it wants to be part of a bourgeois government after the next election, is now receiving internal criticism. Among other things from the party’s youth union, where Romina Pourmokhtari is chairman.
– I think it’s stupid to go out now. Right now we support the January agreement, we have points to implement and we have a government that we support. We must ensure that they implement the points we are negotiating on. Then when the last budget is written with them, then it can definitely be appropriate to go out and make decisions in the party how we want to work forward, she says.
Behind the call, as Among other things, sent to the party leadership are about 40 party members around the country, who want the Liberals to advocate a bourgeois government after the next election. Party leader Nyamko Sabuni has said that a message about which line the Liberals choose will come well in advance of the election. But in good time, it is now, says Mårten Hemström, group leader for the Liberals in Sala
who is the initiator of the name collection.
– We need a year and a half, to show our bourgeois voters that they can take us seriously now, we are part of the bourgeoisie again, he says.
The call comes after a time of very weak opinion figures for the Liberals, most recently a high-profile SVT-Novus poll in which the Liberals received 2.7%. Party secretary Juno Blom announces in writing that she understands the frustration of many members given the party’s poor opinion figures, and she reiterates that in good time before the election there will be a clear message on the government issue. Now the full focus is on raising confidence by talking about the Liberals’ policies.
Malin Sjöberg Högrell, union president in Uppsala County, believes that
it is a strange time to demand a ruling on the government issue.
– The government issue is of course something we need to land on before the election, but it is something that we have in our democratic processes that we have a national meeting next year, and then it is very appropriate that we raise the issue at that time, she says .