"We usually follow the party line. If I don't, I promise to announce it," says Malin Danielsson, L's spokesperson on disability rights issues.
She was absent from last week's vote on stricter citizenship and transitional rules, as were Liberals Helene Odenljung, Jakob Olofsgård and Cecilia Rönn.
The four have recently been critical of L's stance towards the SD and are not running for parliament in the elections this autumn.
"No comment right now," Cecilia Rönn wrote in a text message. TT has contacted Olofsgård and Odenljung.
Everyone must be in place
The chaos of the vote means that all 349 members will likely have to show up for votes in the future. Previously, Liberals have been paired out to avoid voting against their conscience. Now it is uncertain how they will vote when they have to be there, according to the opposition.
Everyone needs to be present now, according to L's group leader Lina Nordquist.
"I have explained to everyone that they must be present," says Nordquist after the group leaders' meeting about the set-off system.
She adds that she has made it clear that this applies to all remaining votes during the mandate period, as long as there is no new set-off system.
“No one should get sick”
During Wednesday's vote on the nuclear power review, Nordquist says that L is in agreement, but she cannot say what will happen next.
The Liberals have had a decades-long honorable agreement that a member should speak up well in advance if he or she is considering voting differently from the group's common view. That has not happened this term, and I have no reason to believe that it will happen in the future either.
She believes that it may be possible to agree on a new set-off system, but that it is difficult as long as trust between the parties has not been restored.
The lack of a set-off system means that, in principle, no one is allowed to get sick, go to funerals, go on business trips or, for example, take international assignments as an election observer. Not on Wednesdays and Thursdays, anyway. You have to stay healthy, says Nordquist.
The Left Party, which has an individual agreement with the Liberals to pair out individuals, will not pair out any of its members as long as a new agreement is not in place.
