Centre prepares its own budget as red-green talks stall

The Centre Party is preparing its own budget proposal while talks on a new Swedish government remain unresolved. The Greens say time for a joint red-green alternative appears to have run out.

Centre’s economic spokesperson Martin Ådahl told SVT on Tuesday that the party is working on a proposal focused on jobs, lower emissions and welfare across Sweden. He described it as the party’s basis for the next stage.

Green economic spokesperson Janine Alm Ericson said she would have preferred progress towards a shared economic programme. Her party had called for immediate budget negotiations, but now expects to consider how to handle the outgoing government’s transitional budget in committee.

Several red-green representatives told SVT that one option is to support that transitional budget and seek changes later. No agreement on that route was announced.

The budget work runs alongside Centre leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist’s exploratory mandate. She must report to the Speaker by 26 October on whether a government can win parliament’s acceptance.

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