HS Analysis | Canceling the surgery shows that Purra is starting to feel the pressure of his own

The Treasury minister Riikka Purra (ps) cancels one of the government’s cut decisions for the first time.

Bite said last weekend at the European election meeting in Kouvola, that he and Perussuomalaiset are ready to cancel the decision on the termination of night duty at Kouvola hospital.

The government’s draft presentation on trimming the hospital and emergency room network is already in the opinion round. According to Purra, however, Kouvola’s night emergency could still be saved if the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health’s estimate of the five million euro savings potential turns out to be exaggerated.

Before this, the finance minister has pressed the gas instead of the brake in public. He has brought ever greater savings demands to the table and pushed politically unpopular decisions, such as cuts of hundreds of millions of euros to pensions.

Why does Purra suddenly start canceling a cut of only a few million euros?

Basic Finns in the ranks of the board partners, there is a suspicion that Purra is starting to really feel the pressure of its own for the first time.

The support of basic Finns has decreased rapidly in the measurements of the last few months. The bill of support is timed around the austerity decisions of the April budget crisis.

The party’s MPs may slowly start to question the chairman’s strict line if they receive increasingly negative feedback from their own supporters.

The abolition of night duty in Kouvola is a sensitive issue in the city of approximately 80,000 inhabitants. Local Basic Finns MP Sheikki Laakson with the management are frantically trying to get Purraa and the government to cancel the decision.

Chairman of the parliamentary group Jani Mäkelä will discuss the topic with the basic Finns of the area on Friday.

Night shift abolition is also a difficult matter for the Kouvola assembly. In last year’s parliamentary elections, Kokoomus and Perussuomaliket were the two largest parties in the city.

Member of Parliament from Kouvola Ville Kaunisto (cook) has told even his family’s sense of security was shaken by the aggressive feedback from the termination of the night shift.

In the leadership of the coalition, they still don’t want to cancel the surgery decisions. The party fears that the opening of individual decisions would be “the beginning of the end” and would lead to a quagmire of continuous cancellation.

For example, the compromise reached on trimming the hospital and emergency room network was the result of long negotiations.

I bite in addition, outgoing chairman of Rkp, minister of education and European election candidate Anna-Maja Henriksson proposed last weekend cancellation of one surgery agreed by the government.

The board decided that secondary school learning materials will become chargeable in the year when the student turns 19. In Henriksson’s opinion, the decision should be reversed.

Henriksson is under a lot of pressure during the European elections, because the only place in the Rkp and at the same time his passage is uncertain based on support surveys.

The coalition chairman of the parliamentary group Matias Marttinen told STT on Thursday that Purra’s and Henriksson’s proposals would definitely require compensatory austerity measures. The proposal should come from the responsible minister, and the government should agree on it unanimously.

Purra may argue that Kouvola’s night shift is being abolished, that there is no need for replacement savings, because abolishing it would not really save money.

The government still has a lot of difficult negotiations ahead of it. Until now, it has managed to push even unpopular austerity decisions through quickly.

Only later will it become clear whether Purra’s and Henriksson’s cancellation demands are individual cracks, or whether the growing internal pressures of the government groups are causing problems for government cooperation.