HS analysis|The difficulties would be easier to solve if Anders Adlercreutz had the full credit of the party and the government behind him, writes political journalist Joona Aaltonen in his analysis.
Rkp’s having become chairman With Anders Adlercreutz there is cause for celebration on Sunday. In the presidential election, Adlercreutz received 183 votes out of 267, which gives a strong mandate to take over the party.
However, Adlercreutz is not going to have a honeymoon as the leader of the party: the difficulties start right from the beginning of the week, when the Constitutional Law Committee gives its opinion on the so-called conversion law.
In order to pass the law, five sixths of the votes of the parliament will probably be needed, so also the support of the opposition. Every member of the government who slips in a possible future vote will therefore weaken the passage of the law that the coalition and basic Finns consider essential.
At the same time, Rkp MP Eva Biaudet took a strong stance against the law at the party meeting, referring to the fact that the constitutional committee from hearing 18 legal scholars no one considers the government’s proposal worthy of regulation.
In the coming weeks the Minister of Economy will also be voted on by Wille Rydman (ps) for trust.
Chairman of Basic Finns, Minister of Finance Riikka Purra has made it clear that votes of confidence in government ministers are votes of confidence in the entire government.
The current chairman of the party Anna-Maja Henriksson has said that Rydman could not be a member of Rkp, but despite that the party has to vote for Rydman. After his election, Adlercreutz repeated the same line. The opposition will certainly put the party to the test. The situation will not be made easier in this vote either by Eva Biaudet, who can hardly be persuaded to show the green light to Rydman.
Early summer difficult political questions would be easier to solve if Adlercreutz had the full credit of his party colleagues and government partners behind him. However, both of these groups have a long list of people that Adlercreutz must be able to convince in the beginning of his season.
Let’s start from our own party. Even though Adlercreutz is a minister of the party, he has not been at the core of the party’s political power as he only started his political career in adulthood.
For example, the majority of the party’s parliamentary group supported Andersson as the leader of the party, either publicly or behind the scenes. Especially in Ostrobothnia, the start of the Adlercreutz season is closely monitored. After the current chairman Henriksson moves to Brussels, three of the party’s four Nordic MPs have openly campaigned for Andersson.
Also the party’s background influencers chased Adlercreutz’s counter-candidate Take Otto Andersson strongly to the chairman’s place.
In addition to Adlercreutz’s certain outsiderness, the background behind this is his vision of the party as a universally liberal center-right party, which gathers considerably more support than it currently does, also among Finnish-speaking voters. It is feared that the vision will lead to a lack of new voters, but at the same time the current voters will no longer feel that the party is pushing their cause.
To dispel this doubt, it is now important for Adlercreutz to stop the decline in Rkp’s support and turn it into an increase in support.
In basic Finns suspicion towards Adlercreutz is based on government negotiations. It will not be made easier if Rkp’s line in the conversion law and Rydman votes is not clear and in line with the rest of the government’s line.
In the middle of last year’s government negotiations, Adlercreutz wrote a long text in his blog, in which he called for more immigration and defended an ambitious climate policy. At that time, basic Finns were disgusted by the text and even Purra publicly criticized its writing.
During the government negotiations, in the ranks of basic Finns, Adlercreutz was referred to in some places with the derisive name “count lord” (even though Adlercreutz’s family branch is not a count or a free lord, but just an ordinary noble) and he was compared in his liberality to Eva Biaudet, who was a stone in the government’s shoe since then, who ran through the first year of the government.
Although as a minister, Adlercreutz has not made the same departures from the government ranks as Biaudet, it has not completely removed the suspicions against Adlercreutz.
of Adlercreutz luck is that the comments on the conversion law and Rydman issues and the party’s voting behavior in the coming weeks belong especially to the chairman of the party’s parliamentary group, who is already used to explaining the party’s position in difficult situations.
That is, for Otto Andersson, who lost the presidential election to Adlercreutz.
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