In an interview with Swedish radio on Monday, Romina Pourmokhtari said that the previous government had done nothing to speed up the permit processes for offshore wind power, and that the Social Democratic Party had "spent the last eight years dismantling nuclear power".
The statements came after Magdalena Andersson (S) and Muharrem Demirok (C) had held a joint press conference where they criticized the government's climate policy.
"The statements are not correct"
According to Riksdag member Anna-Caren Sätherberg (S), the climate minister is completely wrong in both her claims. Therefore, she has now reported Pourmokhtari, which Expressen was the first to report on.
"Both of these statements are not true. I think it's time for this election rhetoric to stop and I don't think the tone of conversation we have in Sweden now works," she says.
Don't you also contribute to a heated situation through the KU notification?
"Now KU has to examine the truth of these statements. We cannot have cabinet ministers who say things on Swedish radio that are not at all true, says Anna-Caren Sätherberg.
"Political game" according to the climate minister
Is there not something in the fact that you partly contributed to the dismantling of nuclear power?
"It was for market reasons that nuclear power was discontinued, after the major disasters. It was about the companies themselves doing it, both the state-owned company but also the private ones. It was about the fact that we had an energy agreement.
Also in November, the Minister for Climate Change was notified by the Social Democrats, then for the way the electric car bonus was withdrawn.
Romina Pourmokhtari (L) does not want to participate in any interview, but writes in a text message to SVT:
"It is obvious that the Social Democrats, together with the Green Party, have spent the last eight years greatly making it difficult for nuclear power as an energy type instead of expanding all Swedish fossil-free energy, wind power and nuclear power. The Social Democrats want to distract from this with political games instead of giving the Swedish people information."