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Digital City Council meetings are now held across the country. The Administrative Court is currently examining whether this meeting in Luleå was conducted in accordance with legal requirements. Stock Photography.
In the country’s municipalities, remote council meetings have become common during the pandemic.
But it’s unclear whether the meetings meet legal requirements when municipal politicians meet digitally.
The matter is now being tried by the administrative court, as a private person in Luleå, who was a listener at a partially digital city council meeting in December, questioned the validity of the meeting.
– It is not very clear where the limits go and what requirements can be set, so in that sense it is welcome that there is a trial, says Germund Persson, General Counsel of the municipalities and regions of Sweden (SKR), to the Swedish Radio Ekot.
The law states that all participants must be seen and heard in real time and be able to participate in the meeting on equal terms.
The municipality of Luleå believes that its council meeting lived up to the requirements, but the individual, who was in the meeting room, says that it was not possible to see all the politicians who participated digitally at the same time on the screen big.
The administrative court has temporarily halted the decisions made by the municipality at the meeting and the verdict is expected by the end of January.
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