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40 öre in municipal taxes is the same level that the Left Party, the Green Party and the Feminist Initiative wrote on their tables in the draft budget a year ago. So he got the nob from elsewhere, and in all likelihood, even before 2021, they’ll be alone in wanting to go that way.
It is estimated that the 40 ören, if realized, would have given 574 million more to move.
Along with one Withdrawals of profits from the Gothenburg City’s own companies of 450 million and 550 million from the so-called compensation reserve, roughly the same level as the ruling Alliance proposal, V, MP and Fi intend to send 496 million Swedish crowns more than the Alliance to committees, to welfare.
Like the Alliance, it is based on a zero result: it is considered that the surpluses that a municipal budget should normally show can prevent a pandemic year.
Many of the proposals of the red-green-pink parties are old acquaintances with whom they continue to fight. Perhaps most surprising, overall, is that the entire budget can seem quite tight compared to what the Alliance put on the table this week.
That description, however, does not buy the leader of the Left Party group, Daniel Bernmar.
– I would say that we put a completely normal budget. It is the Alliance that has done it differently. They have adapted to us and that is good. They have put in the most expansive bourgeois budget I have ever had. We are generally criticized for being so varied. Now they can’t.
A year ago, the Alliance was forced in the final stages to add more money to the school so as not to risk being rejected. Looking ahead to 2021, the Alliance wants to increase the general allocation for well-being by 1.5 percent. The red-green-pink is set at 1.7 percent, exactly in the assessment of general cost increases made by the municipalities and regions of Sweden, SKR. Therefore, the difference is only 0.2 percentage points. So the scope for a bigger “battle for well-being” will be smaller this time compared to last year.
Presentation of the budget of the red-green-pink parties, from left to right Stina Svensson, Fi, Daniel Bernmar, V, and Karin Pleijel, MP.
Photo: Lars Näslund
As a place to At the budget presentation, the leaders of the red-green-pink group Daniel Bernmar, Karin Pleijel (MP) and Stina Svensson (Fi) had chosen the new Selma Lagerlöfs Center in Backa.
– Selma was herself a feminist icon, so it’s a great place to do this presentation, Bernmar began.
He then said that the 40 trout shouldn’t be seen as a particularly heavy burden to most people.
– We are talking about a hundred dollars a month for the average Gothenburger.
MP’s Karin Pleijel described an additional 620 million for the school as “our largest individual investment.” 180 of these millions are classified as quality improvement in compulsory school. They will go to more teachers, renovated courtyards, more places in the cultural school. When it comes to preschool, the focus is the same: more employees, smaller class sizes and groups.
The above proposal if they are repeated on Sundays without cars in the city center.
– Gothenburg is a car-friendly city, we want it to be a human-friendly city, which we re-prioritize from car to bicycle. And the Alliance surprised the card of the period, now we want to surprise it, said Pleijel.
The “district mothers” is a proposal that Stina Svensson of the Feminist Initiative also championed last year. Ten million people want to spend on a pilot project.
– It should be seen as an integration job, a concrete proposal to increase employment where we let women help women, says Svensson and refers to the fact that a similar activity has been successful in Stockholm.
The draft budget also includes a “package against violence” of 51 million.
– We want to include the fight against violence in school hours, says Stina Svensson.
– We imagine that the school hires experts on these topics who come in and, for example, teach children how to speak up in case of rapes. It is not just about raising awareness about macho cultures. Work against the destructive ideals of masculinity must start early.
But the V-MP-Fi budget, of course, is not without austerity compared to the Alliance budget.
– We are cutting your funding for the security guards as well as the commercial company. Today, large resources are invested in the Gothenburg business region. We also want to save some of the administration in the city administration office, says Daniel Bernmar.
Like last year Bernmar now says they are open to dialogue with other parties to, if possible, win the council’s support. But judging by a first comment from the leader of the social democratic group Jonas Attenius, the interest, as expected, is not very great this year either. To DN he says:
– After a quick reading, I can confirm that it is a scattered budget. It relies on a uniform tax increase from left parties to fund token partisan environmental policies.
Also president of the municipal board Axel Josefson (M) is critical of the budget.
– It is a budget detrimental to both the finances and the security of Gothenburgers. It is irresponsible and unnecessary to raise taxes in a situation where the state adds billions to municipalities. A tax increase affects low-income people the most. Plus, the red-green city’s successful security work is sinking on this budget, Josefson says.
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