On Friday, the Green Party will submit a so-called event motion, or "emergency motion", to the Speaker demanding that the vote on transitional rules for citizenship be retaken.
The issue was decided by the Riksdag at the end of April, and that was also when the big fight over the set-off system started. The opposition has accused the SD of cheating because the party called in two substitute members to win.
The SD has claimed that it only acted so that the vote would reflect the election results and the will of the voters.
“Manipulated”
Hirvonen had previously submitted an initiative to the Social Insurance Committee to re-vote. It was voted down by the Tidö majority.
Now, instead, an event motion is presented. Such a motion may be raised due to an event of greater importance. At least ten members of parliament must support it, and it must be an event that could not have been foreseen or taken into account during the general motion period.
Annika Hirvonen believes that SD's actions in the vote on April 29 are precisely such a situation.
"I mean that SD has de facto manipulated the result of a parliamentary vote by violating the set-off agreement. It directly affects the rights of over 100,000 people," says Annika Hirvonen.
Some 100,000 people are currently waiting for a decision on citizenship. When the requirements for becoming a Swedish citizen are tightened on June 6, they will also be affected, even though they applied under the old rules. Something the opposition is critical of, but which according to the Tidö parties is important for Sweden's security, since the new requirements are, among other things, about preventing criminals from becoming citizens.
Up to the Speaker
It will now be up to Speaker Andreas Norlén (M) to decide whether the criteria for tabling an incident motion are met. If so, the motion will be sent to the committee for preparation and a new report will be drafted.
"The majority will probably say no, but then those of us who are in favor can make reservations and there will be a vote in the chamber," says Hirvonen.
If the criteria are not considered met, Hirvonen still has the opportunity to propose in the chamber that the motion be sent to the Constitutional Committee, which will decide whether it may be presented.
The set-off system collapsed on April 29, after the SD allowed two of its members to vote even though they had been counted as absent under the set-off system.
In this way, the Tidö parties managed to prevent the opposition from passing transitional rules for those who have already applied for citizenship, when stricter citizenship requirements are introduced on June 6.
The reason for SD's action was that the party learned before the vote that two former SD members, now independents who usually follow the SD line, intended to vote with the opposition.
This caused great outrage among the opposition, who accused the SD of cheating. There have also been calls for the SD to be excluded from the set-off system, citing that the party cannot be trusted.
Set-off is used when members of parliament are unable to attend a vote. In this case, an equal number of members from the opposing side are removed so that the majority ratio remains the same.
