About 40 members of the Liberals are now going out in a joint appeal and demand that the party leadership and Nyamko Sabuni already declare that the party wants to be part of a bourgeois government after the next election.
-– In any case, we strongly urge the party leadership to agree that we should belong to the bourgeoisie after the next election, and that it happens now, says Mårten Hemström, who is group leader for the Liberals in Sala and initiator of the appeal.
It has started to blow briskly within the Liberals, a debate that gained momentum after the latest SVT Novus poll when the party only received 2.7 percent in voter support.
After that came demands from heavier party representatives to leave the January collaboration soon, but where it was directed, there were setbacks from others in the party.
The party’s county union chairman in Skåne Torkild Strandberg went after it and demanded that the January collaboration be ended, even Member of Parliament Allan Widman believes that it is urgent, but there was a direct backlash from the Liberal regional council Anna Starbrink in Stockholm and also Anna-Lena Johansson, the party’s county union chairman in Stockholm.
So now about 40 party members around the country are calling for the party leadership to now publicly declare that they want to remove Stefan Löfven and form a government with the Moderates and Christian Democrats, and preferably the Center Party if they want. Party leader Naymko Sabuni has said that a message about the Liberals’ line will come in handy before the election. But in good time, it is now, says Mårten Hemström.
– It takes a while to establish a trust, and to restore a lost trust. We need a year and a half to show our bourgeois voters that they can take us seriously. We are part of the bourgeoisie again, he says.
But the question about supporting a moderate-led government, it split the Liberals after the last election, a majority in the Liberals then said no to it precisely with reference to the Sweden Democrats gaining influence. Why is it obvious to you that you are now going to change course?
– Because I do not think it was a majority of the Liberals who wanted this. It was a majority of the party council. If all members had been asked, and above all all voters, there would have been absolutely no January agreement, but there would have been a bourgeois government.
At the same time steps now the Liberals in Jämtland-Härjedalen appear in the debate. Chairman there, Pär Löfstrand, who also sits on the party board, says that the county union’s position is that the party should leave the January agreement. When, is up to the party leadership, but to wait until next fall is well late, he thinks.
– The agreement is very difficult for many in the general public to understand, and then the Liberals’ political position becomes extremely difficult to understand, and then it is better to stand alone and pursue their policy from a freer position, he says.
Source: ICELAND NEWS