The Swedish Green Party has lost it

For full transparency, I am politically very far from the Swedish Social Democrats and socialism.

The Swedish Green Party was founded by former members of cooperative parties to the Moderate Coalition Party. The Moderate Coalition Party biggest opponent is the Swedish Social Democratic Party.

Despite its origins, the Swedish Green Party has since moved to the left on the political scale and, in my opinion, belongs to the extreme left today.

In the previous election in 2018, the Moderate Collection Party became the largest political party in Stockholm municipality. However, they did not get a majority and decided to cooperate with the Green Party to gain power in Stockholm municipality. The consequence of this collaboration was that the Moderate Collection Party lost, quite rightly in my opinion, both power and a large part of its votes in the 2022 election.

Instead, Social Democrats became the largest party in Stockholm municipality in the last election. But, they too needed the support of the Green Party to gain power. Which in practice means the Green Party will govern in Stockholm municipality for another 4 years.

One year into this mandate, the Green Party has now decided that some parts of Stockholm city will become environmental zone 3, which means that only electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles will be driven within certain parts of Stockholm city. The implementation of this must begin in 2024 to be fully implemented by 2026. Emergency vehicles such as police, fire brigade, ambulances, prisoner transports and transport services for elderly have been exempted until further notice.

We are not affected personally as we have a Tesla model Y but I feel for everyone who will no longer be able to drive their car within the city limits.

Most environmentalists live in a neighborhood called Sodermalm in Stockholm. I propose that we make this part of the city environmental zone 4 and remove all municipal means of transport, ban all vehicles except bicycles and close all shops.

They can walk or bike to the neighborhood boundary to access these privileges found in the rest of the city. This would also apply to politicians from the Green Party who have the right to personal protection. Only then would they understand the magnitude of their insane decisions.