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During the municipal board meeting, S and D received indirect support from the Swedish Democrats, who also lobbied for similar, but even broader, proposals. But the party’s 38 seats on the council out of a total of 81 are not enough against what they themselves sometimes call the seven-party coalition. In the actual vote, SD voted for his own alternative.
During the municipal board meeting, the Alianza parties, together with the red-green-pink ones, chose to reject the S + D proposal.
In the end, it was not clear how the Alliance would respond to the language requirement, but the written rejection argues that “it is in relation to recruitment that language skills should be guaranteed. Securing the applicant’s language skills through a language test will involve significant administration. “
Also, one writes that “for the Alliance, it is not only about making demands on new employees in the city, but also about investing in initiatives to increase knowledge with the existing staff. Something that the responsible committees will be compensated for in the budget adopted by the city of Gothenburg for 2021 “.
The Social Democrats and Democrats, for their part, linked to the deficiencies that emerged during the corona pandemic, proposed that the municipal leadership “in collaboration with the relevant administrations and unions, quickly investigate the introduction of language tests for new jobs in care for the elderly, preschool, leisure centers and functional support “.
They wrote that “it would be deeply compromising for the city and directly irresponsible for the bourgeois government to allow municipal activities to face an aggravated spread of the infection without sufficient tools to deal with it.”
During the subsequent press conference at the town council meeting the tone was high – from both sides.
– We are very disappointed, especially with Axel, who recently said in the media that we could handle a language test on a separate claim, but follow in the footsteps of the left, said Martin Wannholt of the Democrats.
– Poor leadership, of course I think this is unfortunate, said Jonas Attenius of the Social Democrats.
But Axel Josefson, the leader of the group of moderates, cut back.
– It is a very difficult situation in which Jonas Attenius himself has been involved in creating by saying that work should take precedence over language. Now we clean up the mess he’s been creating. Also, your proposal is not viable. That a complete proposal on how the language test should be handled is ready already in January, it is not possible. If they had been serious, they would have written a practically feasible statement.
