Sweden: The Right Party gets 4 chairmanships in the Riksdag
– It is important for us, a milestone in the party’s history, says legislator Richard Jomshof, a Sweden Democrat who was appointed as the next chairman of the justice committee, to SVT. – It is an expression of the fact that we are Sweden’s second largest party.
In addition to the four chairmanships, the party was able to appoint the vice-chairmen of the Riksdag’s civil, traffic, defense and tax committees.
The Sweden Democrats, a nationalist and anti-immigration party with roots in the neo-Nazi movement, are part of the right-wing bloc that won a narrow majority in the Riksdag in the September 11 election.
Decisions on the posts were announced on Friday in a joint statement by the four centrist parties in talks to form a coalition government. The Sweden Democrats, who are one of the four, announced their nominees on Saturday.
Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the centre-right Moderates, the party that came third, has been tasked with forming a government that will likely have the Sweden Democrats as part of a governing coalition or at least the party’s support to secure a majority in parliament.
Kristersson has until October 12 to present the results of his talks with the parties to the speaker of the Riksdag, Andreas Norlen.