The Government, the Green Party and the Center Party form the basis of the Riksdag’s Environment and Agriculture Committee. The committee stops the bill on changed beach protection rules that the three have negotiated.
With this, Minister of Climate and Environment Annika Strandhäll’s hopes that the Riksdag would say yes in shame. She predicted this in March, after the government had made some adjustments to the original proposal to make it easier to get the bill through.
The original proposal was the result of a negotiation between the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Center Party for the Center Party to release Magdalena Andersson as the new Prime Minister.
Different motives
The purpose was to ease the rules to make it easier to build by lakes and streams out in the country, outside densely populated areas. The Green Party, for its part, wanted to tighten beach protection in areas where the pressure to build is strong.
A majority in the committee is now stopping the bill. Four parties have rejected it, including the Left Party. But the Left Party does so because the party believes that the proposals will impair the public’s access to beaches and jeopardize climate goals.
Gets harder
The Moderates, the Sweden Democrats and the Christian Democrats reject because they believe that the proposals, on the contrary, can make it more difficult to build by water. The Liberals want to reject parts of the bill.
The new rules were intended to enter into force this summer. This will not be the case if the Riksdag’s chamber follows the committee and votes no to the bill.
The committee has no alternative proposals. This means that current rules continue to apply.