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After Eriksson’s resignation, there will be two gaps in government
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With the resignation of Peter Eriksson, the Green Party lost one of its most colorful, experienced and successful representatives.
But it seems like he’s tired and then maybe it’s just as good that he walks.
– I did my military service. I need to clean up now, he said.
Peter Eriksson was not modest when he said thank you and goodbye to the most important politicians. Rather, one hit after another lined up.
There was no wrong description. He is one of the most successful representatives of the Green Party.
As a municipal politician in Kalix, he managed to get the 44 percent in the S bracket that was previously made up of the foundation walls to vote green.
As a mouthpiece, together with Maria Wetterstrand, led the Green Party to its best electoral result to date, 7.3 percent in 2010. In the last elections, the MP became the smallest party in the Riksdag with 4.4 percent of the vote.
In 2011, Eriksson was forced to resign as spokesperson due to internal party regulations on movement of posts.
me instead, he ran for office The European Parliament and again the party made a very good choice, just over 15 percent.
But only two years later he was called home again. Despite the fact that, according to his own statement, he had ended Swedish domestic politics at the time.
Photograph: Anders Wiklund / TT / TT NYHETSBYRÅN
Peter Eriksson.
It was noticed, you could say. It is true that neither the Minister of Housing, Eriksson’s first ministerial position, nor the Minister of Development Assistance, his second, are in the line of fire.
But Peter Eriksson has previously managed to elbow his way into the limelight despite that. But as a minister, he was unsuccessful, maybe he didn’t even want to.
I will remember Peter Eriksson as a straight-backed politician who didn’t give in to awkward decisions or shady sides. It was revealing that during his farewell press conference he not only got into what went well but also the disappointments.
True, that list was pretty short, two unfinished rail investments. But anyway.
A particularly recorded episode took place during the 2002 Green Party congress. The Nominating Committee had nominated Claes Roxbergh as the new male spokesperson.
But the first day of the Congress Peter Eriksson, along with Roxbergh, announced that they had agreed that he, Eriksson, was a better fit. So he was the one who ran, not the nominating committee’s proposal. You could say very unusual.
I will also remember it as a politician who doesn’t try to stand up. Neither the voters nor the journalists. Liberating, I would say.
In line with this, Peter Eriksson has always been a strong advocate for the Green Party to take responsibility for government, at the local, regional or national level, should the opportunity arise.
He talks about his time in politics as one community service, about the importance of contributing to something bigger than your own limited world and about working for democracy. That was very well said.
But, like I said, he has the feeling that he didn’t really like being a minister. Now he has sat down since his last government meeting and is moving on.
To which it is not clear, but that the 62 year old I would withdraw completely, I really don’t think so.
At the end of January and February, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven is due to undergo a government reorganization. Climate Minister Isabella Lövin, also a spokesperson today, is also tired of politics and is writing again. Until then, he takes over Eriksson’s duties in government work.
He does not speak in favor of the Green Party that two of the party’s five ministers have left government since the elections. It contributes, at the very least, to the losing stamp that the party has received over the years as a ruling party.
Stefan Löfven can choose to fill in the gaps only after Lövin and Eriksson. Or make a big transformation that also includes representatives of your own party, the Social Democrats.
What speaks against the latter is that the crisis of the crown is already sucking the must of the government. Ruining it further by kicking people in, bringing in more new people than is required due to defections in the Green Party, can be perceived as unnecessary in an already pressured situation.
But perhaps there are more ministers who want to leave politics? You still don’t know.
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