The meeting will be about the safety of the elected officials and also the Speaker of the Parliament Andreas Norlén, the Police Authority, the Security Service, the Parliamentary Administration and the Government Offices' administrative department will participate.
The concrete event that made the Minister of Justice invite to the meeting is that Carl-Oskar Bohlin, Minister for Civil Defense, was harassed by shouting Palestine activists on his way home from the Parliament last week. Anders Ygeman thinks that what happened is "despicable", but he thinks that the problem is bigger than that.
It's only when Carl-Oskar Bohlin is harassed by this mob that the government takes action, says Ygeman.
It's not a new problem that elected officials are being harassed, threatened and persecuted. It has happened to representatives of all parties, all over Sweden and for a long time, he says.
Exposed during the election campaign
The demand is that the government come up with a concrete threat picture and action plan for what measures need to be taken for elected officials to feel safe. Not least in the upcoming election campaign. For example, the issue of increased personal protection is something he wants to raise.
Ygeman does not want to go as far as to ban demonstrations outside, for example, the Parliament and Rosenbad, which has been put forward in the debate.
I haven't seen any proposal that has been feasible and compatible with fundamental freedoms and rights. However, one can consider how demonstrations can be organized to simultaneously guarantee the safety of elected officials, he says.
Restraining order
KD leader Ebba Busch launched a proposal over the weekend that people who repeatedly disrupt demonstrations should be able to get a restraining order and be banned from public places.
It's not an unreasonable thought, says Ygeman.
