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Märta Stenevi won the party secretary battle in the Green Party last year, even though she was not the nominating committee candidate. Now she wants to be a spokesperson. Stock Photography.
Five candidates have agreed to become a new spokesperson for the Green Party. None of them are primarily outlined on climate policy.
Instead, they highlight issues of justice as important to the party.
On Tuesday, September 29, the time to nominate candidates for a new spokesperson in the Green Party expires. So far MPs Janine Alm Ericson, Annika Hirvonen and Rebecka Le Moine have said they want to replace Isabella Lövin, as have Minister for Gender Equality Åsa Lindhagen and party secretary Märta Stenevi.
– But there may be more than the five that have been made public, says the chair of the nominating committee, Katrin Wissing.
Pratas om Stenevi
Many environmentalists TT spoke to want to wait for candidate hearings before they finally decide on a candidate. But there is much talk about Märta Stenevi, among other things it is said that she has a direct and clear leadership style, she can enthuse, she has a large network after many trips to local associations in the country and that is why she managed to be elected party secretary last year, even though it wasn’t the nominating committee. candidate.
But many also mention Åsa Lindhagen as a person with a good position in the match.
When the candidates have come out and announced their candidacies, they have emphasized that they want to pursue various issues of justice: for greater social justice, human rights in general and for people on the run. No one has sounded like Greta Thunberg.
The environmentalists TT spoke to think the most important thing is that one of the spokespersons has a strong climate policy profile and assumes that biologist Per Bolund is now taking a big step forward. That he leaves the lawsuits in the Ministry of Finance and assumes as Minister of Climate and Environment.
At the last party congress, social justice issues were a common thread in the debates. By then, electoral analysis had shown that voters did not think the MP was a party that understood ordinary people. It was difficult and the party decided to develop more policies in the area.
– I want a very values-oriented person, who has a profile focused on issues of justice and, above all, human rights, says Green Youth spokesperson Aida Badeli.
Difficult questions ahead
The time in the coalition government with the Social Democrats has been full of painful decisions for the deputy. The government will soon decide whether the expansion of Preem’s Lysekil oil refinery will be allowed and what future immigration policy will look like. Both issues have sparked discussions about whether it is worth staying in government, if decisions go against the parliamentary line.
– I think the candidates for spokesperson should say what they think about the issue of migration and about Preem, and what they want to do if there is to be an outcome that we cannot support, says Aida Badeli.
That the candidates are so similar politically can be a problem, believes political scientist Niklas Bolin of Mid Sweden University.
– This means they can also topple each other by taking votes. So the candidate who stands out may have an advantage, he says.
And one of the candidates stands out. It’s Rebecka Le Moine, now a spokesperson for the Biodiversity Party. She believes that one of the spokespersons should be out of government to be more radical. She also wants the party to be more critical of the system and listen more to activists.
Support among nature nerds
Several say Le Moine has a strong position among some in the party, especially among the youth and those someone calls “the true nerds of nature,” and he managed to enter the Riksdag through personal votes.
However, political scientist Niklas Bolin does not want to point to a clear favorite at this point.
– The Green Party is the Green Party. They have a track record of a favorite who doesn’t always win, and the nominating committee’s proposal doesn’t always emerge victorious from the battle, Bolin says.
He recalls that an almost completely unknown municipal politician from Växjö, Magnus P Wåhlin, unexpectedly received a third of the votes when Per Bolund was elected spokesperson. And that a certain Peter Eriksson in 2002 announced his candidacy the same morning that the congress began, and he was elected.
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