The Social Democrats form a cartel with the opposition for a committee majority

During the week, the Social Democrats in the Riksdag had a meeting with the other opposition parties about coming together to guarantee that the opposition gets a majority in the Riksdag's various committees.

- We join together and form a cartel. Our 176 mandates must be pitted against Tidö's 173, because then we will get a majority in all committees, says Social Democrats group leader Lena Hallengren when she met journalists in the Riksdag on Wednesday.

Out of 17 seats in a committee, the opposition gets nine and the Tidöparties eight, she says further.

They have not yet discussed which parties will have which chairman positions in the various committees, she says.

- Right now it is not a question. We haven't even had a call yet.

Despite the rewritten bad mood between the Center Party and the Left Party on the government question with red lines in different directions, Hallengren believes that there has been no difficult negotiation about forming a cartel.

How was this meeting between your four parties?

- I have three very nice group leader colleagues, I can say that.

She further says that she does not have any new exciting insights about the atmosphere between the Center and the Left, but that they did not have coffee together, because there are many meetings to attend to.

On Monday, there will be a roll call of the members of the Riksdag and then the Riksdag will vote on who will be Speaker for the next four years.

Could this also be about you joining all four parties, C, MP and V and launching a speaker candidate?

- I don't think I should say much about the speaker right now, says Hallengren and emphasizes that S believes that the largest party should have the speaker's post.

- For me, it is obvious that Andreas Norlén is not staying, it is Tidö's candidate. We backed him last time so that there would not be a Sweden Democratic speaker.

In the Riksdag, there are 15 different committees divided into subjects such as foreign affairs, finance and the labor market, and there the members prepare the government's proposals before they have to be decided on in the chamber.