One by one, center parties described as possible favorites for the party leader post have said no. The other day, Emil Källström, former economic-political spokesperson, announced that he did not want to become party leaders. On Friday, both EU parliamentarian Emma Wiesner and former CUF chairman Hanna Wagenius have announced that they are also not running for the post.
In the center movement, many people hope that former C-Minister Anna-Karin Hatt will shoulder the role, a hope that will last as long as she does not explicitly refuse.
When SVT reaches her over the phone, she answers the question like this if she wants to become a new party leader:
– It is a purely hypothetical question for me right now, so I have no reason to relate to that at present.
Are you at the disposal of the nomination committee, if they were to ask you the question?
-Now they have not asked any question so it is a hypothetical question, says Anna-Karin Hatt.
She has been CEO of LRF since 2019 but has a long past within the Center Party. Under Fredrik Reinfeldt’s governments, she was first secretary of state and then government minister. She has also been a second deputy party leader for C.
What do you hope to happen for the Center Party forward?
– I have no comments on that. I note what is happening in the Center Party right now and understand that they are in the middle of their own process, and they need it to have peace and quiet in, says Anna-Karin Hat.