The red-green crack: "Unfortunate way to govern"

S leader Magdalena Andersson looks set to lose the prime ministerial vote on Thursday.

Despite that, the Green Party wants the red-green parties to start negotiating a joint budget proposal.

The last date for a government to present a state budget for next year is November 12. But the parties can - even after that - submit joint budget proposals.

- We are prepared to do it in any way, says economic policy spokesperson Janine Alm Ericson (MP), who wants to start the talks already now.

- We should have started talking about that a long time ago.

MP: "Unfortunate way to govern"

Janine Alm Ericson believes that it is not good if economic policy is decided through individual committee initiatives from the Riksdag's finance committee.

- It will be an unfortunate way to govern Sweden, she says.

But V-toppen Ida Gabrielsson does not agree that the red-green should start budget talks already now.

V demands ministerial positions – while C says no to a government with V ministers. That question needs to be sorted out first, she believes.

- I have never been involved in making an agreement where you do not know what roles everyone should have and who should be included. You need to know that first, says Gabrielsson.

The S-top: "No drama"

The incumbent government will present a tight transition budget, which should not contain any new political direction. Ida Gabrielsson thinks that the red-green parties should vote for it and then submit "an amendment budget immediately after the turn of the year".

- Since we will not get a government in place very quickly, it goes without saying that we, four parties, should agree on the transition budget.

C's economic policy spokesperson Martin Ådahl does not give an answer to how he sees the issue of a red-green budget alternative, while S's representative Mikael Damberg is happy to discuss economic policy with the other red-greens.

According to him, there is "no drama".

- I think the parties should move into a discussion where we negotiate the substance in a deeper way, but right now the ball is in the speaker's court, he says.