In her first Almedalen speech as the new Center Party leader, Anna-Karin Hatt begins by talking about school and the countryside.
Small towns and suburbs have been let down for far too long and the Center Party wants to see a new national goal that in ten years, the geographical injustices will be gone from the Swedish school system, she says.
Every pupil, every parent and every teacher should know that we in the Center Party, we will make up for years of underinvestment in schools.
”The patience is over”
During the next term, a new government must therefore invest an additional 50 billion kronor in schools, healthcare, roads, railways, farmers and preparedness. The municipal equalization system must be reformed and government grants "de-bureaucratized", Hatt continues.
Every government that after the next election wants the Center Party's support must clearly invest in the countryside.
The climate is otherwise Anna-Karin Hatt's major topic in the speech and she attacks the Tidö parties and means that the policies pursued increase the import of oil from rogue states like Russia. The Center Party wants to see a climate-neutral Sweden by 2040. And earlier in the day, the Center Party leader presented that she wants the government's "failed climate policy" to be investigated.
The cost of this can amount to 100 billion kronor, she says.
But the cost can very well be even higher than that. Voters have the right to know what the bill will be.
Then the government should be replaced
For the Center Party, the climate issue also becomes a government issue, and those who do not strengthen Sweden's climate work cannot count on the Center Party's support.
Every government that lowers Sweden's climate ambitions will be a government that will have to count on being voted down by the Center Party.
Hatt describes it as The Moderate Party not seeming to see the climate issue as an important social problem, and the Social Democrats do not seem to see businesses as an important part of the solution.
If the government cannot achieve the climate goals, then it is not the climate goals that should be replaced. Then it is the government and their lack of climate policy that should be replaced.
She also gives the same message as before that the Center Party will not seek any organized cooperation with the Sweden Democrats.
The Center Party will not contribute to the Sweden Democrats ending up in a government position.
