Björklund intend to bet everything in their last EU-election campaign as liberal leader, in a difficult position for the party.
– It is the most important EUROPEAN elections since Sweden became a member of the EU, ” says Björklund facing the delegates at the partirådet in Solna.
Partirådet spikes kampanjprogrammet and the list of candidates in elections to the EUROPEAN parliament on 26 may.
in the former mp Said to the House as the runner up on the list, instead of the nomination committee’s proposal, which was member of parliament Allan Widman. Abdu was proposed in fourth place but are now changing place with Widman, who moved down two notches.
– Said to be a very competent and ambitious candidate. He will do a very good job at number two, ” says Allan Widman to DN.
– It is more difficult on-site four than two, but at the same time, usually the liberals do far better in EUROPEAN elections than in the parliamentary elections.
a choice where the issue of the fundamental european values placed on its tip, and the extreme parties and högernationalister want to destroy cooperation.
– It is very anti-european winds, as it looks now, extrempartier on both sides that are very critical to the cooperation to have the tailwind , ” says Björklund at a press conference.
the 10 percent support the party received in the EUROPEAN parliamentary elections in 2014. It gave two seats, but when was Marit Paulsen the great röstinhämtaren and opinion is significantly worse now.
“It would be disappointing if we were to go back and extrempartierna go forward,” says Björklund, who will resign as party leader by november of this year.
He claims that L is the only party that wants to see more cooperation in the EU when the rest of the bourgeois parties, the social democrats and the green Party are fearful in their approach to the EU.
The two remaining parliamentary parties, the Left party and The sweden democrats, want to go out but have given Brexit set to dark it in the election campaign, according to Björklund.