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Goodbye, Janine Alm Ericson.
Sorry, Rebecka Le Moine.
Goodbye, Annika Hirvonen.
Forget the idea of even running, Karolina Skog.
By now, it should be quite clear that party secretary Märta Stenevi will succeed Isabella Lövin as spokesperson for the Green Party, and most likely as prime minister and deputy prime minister.
When I spoke to Märta Stenevi on the Kvällposten editorial page a couple of weeks ago, she refused to answer the question of whether she was even considering applying.
– You didn’t get an answer because I didn’t answer, and neither will I now, he said with a laugh when I pointed out that he didn’t answer the question the first time it was asked.
This is a typical Stenevi comment. Slippery and easy at the same time. An answer with a bite.
For those who have followed Malmö politics in recent years, it is undeniable that it has gotten several degrees more boring since Stenevi hipp, who happily won over whoever the Green Party nominating committee wanted as party secretary, and began to locate parts of the party office in X2000 between Malmö and Stockholm.
Stenevi’s comet political career is almost impossible to match. From political novices, active in business, to regional councils to municipal councils to party secretaries and soon, if nothing spectacular happens, to spokespersons and ministers. It is a journey that is not entirely different from the rocket journey that Isabella Lövin took when she went from journalist to EU parliamentarian, from spokeswoman to prime minister and deputy prime minister in just over ten years.
But while Isabella Lövin has basically been a consensus politics, Stenevi is more of a combative school. Anyone who has ever heard it on the Malmö City Hall platform knows how hot it can be against political opponents. At the same time, her conviction lies in the fact that the role of the Green Party is to have power and influence at the table to be able to influence. The role and legitimacy of green politics is to carry out concrete reforms, says Stenevi.
But while Isabella Lövin has witnessed a bad anchor within the party, the helicopter landed as it has in her various posts, Märta Stenevi has worked methodically in recent years to build relationships and trust within the green parliamentary movement. As a former regional and municipal politician, she also has a completely different political toolbox than Lövin had. That should scare off the government’s partner, the Social Democrats.
Märta Stenevi also shows a clear idea that the Green Party has been the victim of its own obsession with the climate. In the conversation with the editorial side of Kvällposten, Stenevi spoke, among other things, about “ecological safety issues”. Crime and punishment have hardly been the paradigm of the Green Party and they never will be, but Stenevi at least shows a mature view that the Green Party cannot remain on the side of the biggest political problem at the moment. According to Stenevisk’s logic, it is completely obvious: if the Green Party is not relevant on the issue that is currently most important to everyone except the MP, the Green Party will also not be able to enforce the issues that are most important to them. .
Stefan Löfven should already get ready for the cold green shower that awaits him.
Csaba Bene Perlenberg is a freelance columnist on the Kvällposten editorial page.
