No budget this summer - only SD snapped on the Moderates' proposal

The reason is that the Moderates invited all parties to agree on a joint corona budget as early as June. The Social Democrats were critical of the invitation as they felt that the Moderates were using the situation as a cover to invite SD to collaborate.

When the Center Party then chose to back the cooperation, there was no longer a majority. That is why the Moderates have now chosen to release the proposal and the budget is set this fall.

- After all, we reached out to all parties to find a broad agreement on a budget in June, and the reason was that the Social Democrats, with reference to their internal party processes, wanted to move the budget this autumn, which is extremely strange, the municipality must Well, even if the social democrats do not, says the chairman of the municipal council Jonas Bergman (M).

What does this mean?

- Our entire budget process in the municipality is planned for a budget decision in June and it can be about activities that will be started up, or activities that need to be changed, that planning needs the time that you normally get during the autumn, now this will all be completed half a year. , which obviously has major effects and consequences for individual administrations and committees, says Jonas Bergman (M).

The Social Democrats in Halmstad do not agree with the Moderates that the budget should be set now to minimize the effects of the corona pandemic on the municipality's activities, they think it is rather the opposite.

- Our main reason for pushing this is because corona brings lots of effects that are both operational and economic, and the effects we do not fully see after the crisis, and hopefully we have a much clearer picture of those effects when we makes a decision in the autumn than in the middle of the current corona crisis, says Social Democratic Municipal Councilor Stefan Pålsson (S).

When SVT Halland reads Jonas Bergman's (M) comment that he thinks the Social Democrats are acting strangely in the current crisis, Stefan Pålsson (S) goes into counter-attack.

- It is quite obvious that Jonas Bergman (M) sees this as a great loss of prestige that he has to give up and move forward this budget decision, now it is not Jonas prestige that will control how the municipality is managed without the needs of the businesses, says Stefan Pålsson ( S).