The Green Party's Annika Hirvonen submitted a so-called event motion, or "emergency motion", to the Speaker on Friday, demanding that the vote on transitional rules for citizenship be retaken.
"I mean that the legal requirement has been met," she says.
But now the Speaker says no.
In a justification, he believes that it would mean a change in practice for when an event motion may be raised. The Local was first to report this. According to the Riksdag's rules, an event motion may be raised in the event of "an event of major importance."
Can take new turns
Norlén gives as examples the Iraq War in 2003, Hurricane Gudrun in Sweden in 2005, and MPs being allowed to bring forward a motion about NATO and the work against nuclear weapons in May 2022.
"The fact that a parliamentary decision turns out in a way that was not expected should not in itself be considered an event of major importance," he writes.
The Speaker therefore proposes that the motion not be tabled.
But Hirvonen is not giving up. She will demand that the issue be forwarded to the Constitutional Committee (KU) and thus the chamber will hold a vote, although not on the actual issue.
That vote could take place on Thursday or Tuesday next week.
SD brought in members
However, the Speaker could have chosen a different path, according to Hirvonen. He could have demanded that the motion be referred to the Social Insurance Committee, where the issue of citizenship rules was first prepared.
"Then there would have been a new vote on the matter," says Hirvonen.
She believes the Speaker is under pressure.
"I think there is enormous pressure from the governing parties to say no to a new vote."
The issue of new citizenship rules was decided by the Riksdag at the end of April, which 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 set-off 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.
