The non-partisan Amineh Kakabaveh will not support the government’s extra spring change budget unless the government meets her demands.
The government must promise not to export weapons to Turkey, she tells TT.
Later this afternoon, the Riksdag will vote on the spring change budget. The Social Democrats intend to vote against the report on the table, as it is the proposal of the right-wing opposition.
But the Social Democrats also do not intend to vote on the government’s own proposal. Instead, they want to reject the report and instead put an extra amending budget on Friday, which contains the compromise proposal on pensions, which the right-wing majority in the Finance Committee stopped.
Decisive vote
If the opposition on the right raises its own counter-proposal to the government’s extra amending budget, which is expected to come up for decision next week, it will once again be even in the House, where Amineh Kakabaveh’s vote can decide.
That situation arose when Magdalena Andersson took office as Prime Minister, and it was only after the Social Democrats reached an agreement with Kakabaveh on support for the Kurds in northern Syria that it became possible.
That agreement became relevant again last week when the Riksdag voted on no confidence in Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson (S). He was saved because Kakabaveh did not support the distrust.
Two requirements
Now Amineh Kakabaveh says she does not intend to support the government’s extra amending budget next week unless the government meets her demands. It is partly about more money against oppression of honor, and partly a continued halt to arms exports to Turkey.
She has reacted to the writings in the government’s foreign policy declaration, which states that a Swedish NATO membership can change the conditions for arms exports.
Amineh Kakabaveh, and several others with her, have interpreted this as an opening to allow arms exports to Turkey. She can not agree to that, she says.
– Absolutely not. It would be like I would send weapons there that are used against the Kurds, she tells TT.