After the announcement: MP will consider government cooperation

Magdalena Andersson (S) was voted as the new Prime Minister on Wednesday morning.

At the same time, the Center Party announced that they will not support the government's budget proposal in the vote later today, which means that Andersson may now be forced to govern the opposition's budget alternatives, which include reduced diesel and petrol taxes.

When the Green Party's spokesman Per Bolund, after the Prime Minister's vote, was asked how it could affect the party's role in the government, he was speechless.

- We have still not seen the budget vote so we will first see what the end result will be there.

But I hope that there are enough people who want to see a policy that actually actively improves the climate, and not a policy that on the contrary worsens the climate and increases emissions in Sweden, says Per Bolund.

"Strange action"

Bolund emphasizes that they have agreed with the Center Party on several issues, including forest policy.

- Since we have also agreed with the Center Party on forest policy and that money is in our budget and torn away with the brown-blue budget, I must say that it is a very strange action, he says.

Will the Green Party remain in this government with this outcome?

- We now need to think seriously about the conditions for enforcing green policy.

And we do not have government power for our own sake, but we do have it to enforce green politics.

So there is a chance that the Green Party will leave the government?

- I do not want to comment on that.

But of course we have to think about how we now act on the situation that has arisen, says Per Per Bolund.

Magdalena Andersson says at a press conference that it is too early to talk about a one-party government with only the Social Democrats.

- Let the Green Party think and we will take it based on that later, Andersson says in a direct question about the MP's role in the government.

At the same time, she emphasizes that each party makes its own decisions regarding the budget.

- The Center Party has said that they are an opposition party and that we are free to negotiate with other parties.

It is not the case that we get stuck in a collaboration with the Left Party during the coming term, says Andersson.

"Want to mark"

SVT's domestic policy commentator Elisabeth Marmorstein sees the MP's message about a "thinker" as a mark.

However, she believes that they will still regain their place in the government.

- It is likely that they do.

But he wants to point out that the budget that is going through is very bad from the climate aspect when you lower the tax on petrol and diesel, she says.