The cross-block negotiations between MP, S, C KD and L collapsed on Tuesday afternoon.
- For a collaboration to work, all parties must be prepared to move on certain issues. It cannot be a party that says we cannot do more in a number of different issues, says Carl-Johan Schiller, (KD).
According to him, it was wording regarding tools to cut the care queues that the negotiations fell on.
- There was no consensus there. We will not sit and administer a care policy that we do not believe in.
Carl-Johan Schiller says that the talks were "periodically constructive" but still wants to praise above all MP, C and L for having been flexible in the negotiation.
The attentive reader will see that a party is missing from the enumeration.
According to information provided to DN from several different parties in the negotiations, the parties had agreed on, among other things, a tax reduction in the coming year. But the negotiations collapsed amid a discussion about the balance between public and private care, according to several sources.
"During the term of office, no new major decisions that significantly affect the balance between the amount of health and medical care that is conducted privately and under public auspices shall be made," read the wording.
That information is contradicted by Carl-Johan Schiller.
- I don't think that's right.
- We are not saying that the balance should be shifted in any direction. But we say that all tools should be available.
The negotiations were handled at the head of office level and so far had not been elevated to group leader level.
New regional councilors are to be elected at the term's first council meeting on 20 October.
According to S, the parties disagreed about the long-term financing.
"Our view is that all parties have been constructive and willing to compromise. Out of respect for the parties in the room, I will not go into details of the negotiations, writes Aida Hadžialić (S) in a comment to DN and continues:
"Overall, it can be said that we were too far apart in, for example, economic policy".
Some of the parties believe that the parties should still be able to find their way back to the negotiating table, but the Christian Democrats doubt that.
- I see it as very unlikely, says Carl-Johan Schiller.
The Green Party's Jakob Dalunde believes that midterm negotiations were never the Green Party's first choice and that the policy that was negotiated and that the policy was too strongly right-wing.
"We were actually able to rally around reasonable middle-of-the-road policies, which I believe have broad popular support. But today we came to a point where we stopped believing that the political project could work, when the right-leaning became too great," writes Dalunde in a statement.
From the Center Party - which has been the driving force in the center negotiations by not wanting to negotiate with the Left Party - the irritation at the broken negotiations is great.
"It's nonsense that we can't move forward. We five parties can come to an agreement, but then everyone around the table needs to be constructive and want to find solutions," writes Michaela Haga (C).
Now the eyes will be directed towards the Center Party. The party is the wave master in the region and according to information to DN, the right side still hopes for a solution where the Center Party cooperates with the Moderates and the Liberals.
In that case, the mandate of the Sweden Democrats is also required, which the Center Party has been reluctant to do.
The other possible solution on the table right now is negotiations to the left. According to information to DN, V, S, MP and C had two meetings where all parties were gathered in the same room after the election, but the parties were not able to find consensus on the way forward.
Annie Ross is chairman of the S-society Reformisterna. She demands that V and C now sit down and negotiate. She demands that V and C now sit down and negotiate together with MP and S.
- I find it very difficult to see why C finds it so difficult to cooperate with V. It has been done throughout the mandate period. They do it in several other boards in municipalities within the region - such as in Huddinge and in Haninge - and they do it in the Uppsala region, she says and continues:
- There is no logic in their stance in the Stockholm region. It is time for both C and V to take responsibility.
The Left Party says it wants to negotiate on the same terms as the other parties, while the Center Party has not wanted to be open to sitting in a majority government together with the Left Party.
