Viktor Barth-Kron
If a party lacks members as well as sympathizers and assets – is there even then?
Maybe it’s time for the Liberals to take a break, writes Viktor Barth-Kron.
This is a commenting text. Analysis and positions are the writer.
L leader Simona Mohamsson.
Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT / TT News Agency
The Liberals are not only short of money and voters – even the members flee the party. After years of loss, the most mourners are now no more than 7,700 people, Expressen can tell on Monday.
In addition, people who have not paid the fee are also counted.
Admittedly, there is an obvious advantage of this membership race: nowadays there are only 7,700 different opinions about why the party exists and what it should do.
This is a step towards clarity, but the disadvantages are considering after all.
The undersigned already raised just over five years ago that it was perhaps time to discontinue the Liberals party. The arguments for this remain, but perhaps it is still to take the matter far.
By taking a break from Parliament, one can avoid the association being blown up
The bourgeois debater PJ Anders Linder Coming in focus with a more pragmatic proposal: Keep the party, but refrain from the parliamentary election 2026.
In many municipalities and regions (okay, at least some), the Liberals play an important role, without being weighed by the contradictions of the national level. You also have a chair in the European Parliament for at least four more years.
Thus, there are things to do, and by taking a break from the Riksdag you can avoid the association being blasted on the question of whether it is really nationalism or socialism that is most awful to come into contact with.
It may sound completely unlikely that the party would listen, but don’t say it.
Heavy internal cverulant Jan JönssonCitizen Council in Stockholm, was more or less consciously on the same track in an interview with Expressen recently.
“We would need an independent liberal force that works to strengthen confidence in liberal values in society. And it is not always given that you do it best by sitting in the government and being bound by different collaborations“Jönsson said.
It actually sounds more like the portal paragraph for a new think tank than as a poster in an imminent parliamentary election.
Viktor Barth-Kron is a political commentator at Expressen and makes the pod politics room. Hear the latest section here.
