Lisa Palm will take over after the summer and replace Sissela Nordling Blanco, who has been a group leader in the City Hall since the 2014 election. Lisa Palm has been chairman of Fi Stockholm for several years and sits on the council. She takes over the group leadership after the summer.

- It is a special time to take on this assignment. Both the women's movement internationally and in Sweden testify to increased violence against women as a result of the pandemic and women in the welfare profession are struggling to get society going, says Lisa Palm in a press release.

- Now efforts to stop the violence must be effective and the women in the care profession deserve more than one thanks and to be called heroes. They deserve fair pay and decent working conditions, and there is much left to do in Stockholm, not least in the elderly,