Advantage pourmokhtari in party leader election – DN.se
On June 24, the Liberals decide at an extra party meeting who will be Johan Pehrson’s successor at the party leader post. The nomination period expired at midnight the night of Tuesday and now it is up to the nomination committee to wash out its proposal.
– We compile all the inputs we have received and then we create a requirements profile and fold people based on what the party wants, says the nomination committee chairman Lars Persson Skandevall, who expects to come up with about a week for the Extraordinary General Meeting.
About 400 people, party associations and county associations have heard from them. Based on the nominations that have become known so far, Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari appears as a favorite.
Ten county associationsfrom Blekinge in the south to Västerbotten in the north, has declared that she is their favorite. The same view has LUF and liberal students.
This is how the County Association in Sörmland motivates its nomination on Facebook:
« She is read, charismatic and a skilled debater who takes the discussions even when it blows. »
Romina Pourmokhtari has been criticized for choosing to take a seat in the Kristersson government, despite being a tough opponent of collaboration with the Swedish Democrats.
The time as climate minister has also not been an easy journey. Compromises with SD have increased Swedish emissions.
Nominations, and DN’s call With people within the party, this shows that this has not significantly damaged her popularity internally. Her ability to enthusiasm the party people is acknowledged. An L source uses the word « star status ».
– It’s almost like a revival movement around her in some circles, says another.
However, those who want Romina Pourmokhtari are concerned that she herself is not undivided positive.
DN has searched Romina Pourmokhtari for a comment but she has not returned.
School Minister Lotta Edholm was hoisted immediately after Johan Pehrson’s departure message as a possible candidate.
Her supporters describe her as stable and experienced. 60-year-old Edholm has a couple of decades in Stockholm City Hall on the track record, as both a member of the council and the bourgeois council. That she is now responsible for the school, the Liberals’ heart issue, is also posted in her plus account.
So far, however, it is only A county association, Västmanland, that has nominated her. Sources with transparency also state for DN that she absolutely does not want to.
DN has also applied for Lotta Edholm, but she has not returned.
Lars Persson Skandervall points out that there are about ten candidates who have received reasonably wide support during the nomination process.
Other names that appear Is newly created Equality Minister Nina Larsson, as well as Erik Ullenhag who was running, and lost, against Nyamko Sabuni in the 2019 party leadership election. Ullenhag, who has a long and wide track record, has since been away from politics. He is currently Sweden’s Consul General in New York.
The decision is in the hands of the three major county associations Stockholm, Western Sweden and Skåne, which together have a majority of the agents at the meeting. None of the three have so far published their nominations.
Read more: After the departure – internal turmoil over the opinion figures
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