Last week, Louise Erixon (SD) announced that the opposition had collected the 1,400 signatures needed to implement a referendum in Sölvesborg.
The vote will be about the size of M municipal councilor Kith Mårtensson’s fee.
However, the opposition believes that the municipality is trying to stop the referendum by requiring postcodes in connection with the signatures.
The issue must be formally decided in the council, where it is sufficient that one third of the members support the demand. The result of the referendum will then be advisory.
New collaboration
Since it became official in October that the Moderates and the SoL party left Samstyret to govern together with the Center Party and the Social Democrats, municipal councilor Kith Mårtensson’s fee has been criticized by the opposition.
With the new collaboration, the municipality got two full-time municipal councilors instead of one, which the Sweden Democrats’ group leader Louise Erixon criticized – and then took the initiative for a referendum.