Stefan Löfven at the coronation test: should have tried more

In mid-December, the Crown Commission published its first interim report. There, the Commission issued harsh criticism of how the government protected the elderly in elderly care during the pandemic.

“Elderly care was unprepared and ill-equipped to deal with a pandemic,” the commission wrote in the report.

Stefan Löfven has been criticized for having transferred responsibility and blaming the management to municipalities and regions. Criticism to which he now responds in an article in DN.

– I take full responsibility as Prime Minister for the strategy we have. The law states that it is the government that governs the kingdom. It is also established in the constitution that democracy is based on municipal self-government, he says.

Although the regions are responsible for health care and infection control, the Prime Minister believes that the ultimate responsibility lies with the government.

– We have chosen a model where operational responsibility falls on different people. But even if the regions are responsible for health care and infection control, we cannot tell the regions that they can manage themselves. So we have a responsibility to intervene. We are responsible for everything, Stefan Löfven tells the newspaper.

Trust in government plummets

At the same time, a new Novus poll shows that trust in the Swedish authorities and the government is plummeting. Something that can be explained by the shopping scandals and trips abroad on Christmas weekends, reports SVT Nyheter.

Among other things, trust in the government has dropped by 15 percentage points and, according to Jenny Madestam, a political scientist at the University of Södertörn, this can be explained by Stefan Löfven’s shopping trip in Gallerian, which Expressen revealed during the week.

Trust in MSBs is also declining markedly.

Of those surveyed, only 28 percent consider that they have enough or a lot of confidence in MSB, after Expressen’s revelation that the former secretary general of the agency, Dan Eliasson, traveled to the Canary Islands during Christmas and New Years.

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