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Today, the C-leader returns after nine months.
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The demands on Annie Lööf are high when she returns today after more than nine months.
Politics was paralyzed by the crown bud. Is she the engine that can start it again?
Photo: LOTTE FERNVALL
Annie Lööf returns today after nine months.
Today, center leader Annie Lööf returns to politics after an absence of nine months. She has been gone since the birth of her second daughter, too early, at the end of last year.
Meanwhile, Swedish politics have done it on the ground Marsch. Not because of her, but because of the corona pandemic that put all other problems aside, all the work was concentrated on the two flanks of virus control, public health and the economy.
For a long time, there was also a kind of ideological silence in politics. No one wanted to risk appearing quarrelsome at a time of serious crisis for the country and for the world.
But that can change now. One reason is that we he has a new year of political work ahead of him and many activists have certainly yearned for him to return to a more normal state. Another is that Annie Lööf will return.
Despite the Center’s cooperation with the government, it is not known for putting its fingers in the middle when it believes criticism is justified.
Before budgetary cooperation with the government and He belonged to Stefan Löfven’s sharpest critics, the Liberals. The tone has since softened but Lööf knows how to show his claws and when he does he sharpens them.
Lööf can do that because she feels that she and the Center Party are on a stable footing. With its 31 seats, it is without a doubt the fourth largest party in the Riksdag.
But the result of the last parliamentary elections, 8.6 percent, was the best in the party since 1988. Self-confidence is very good and the conviction that his own party’s policy is the absolute best is unshakable. It is a position of strength and it benefits and uses Lööf in the debate.
Despite her relative youth, 37, Annie Lööf is one of Sweden’s most experienced politicians.
She is the second oldest party leader in years of service, only Jimmie Åkesson (SD) has sat longer than her, who has been the Center’s president since 2011. She has also been a minister for three years and led one of the largest and heaviest ministries, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, for the same duration. hour. It also provides a stable base for a politician, like Annie Lööf, with ambitions.
With her pack relatively well packed, Annie Lööf has hence the opportunity to become what Swedish politics would need right now. An engine that restarts the debate after a six-month paralysis when nobody seems to have wanted to take the initiative with proposals that have not been chewed so many times that they felt both without contour and without interest.
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