Selected by Amanda Lind is clear after the party’s representatives voted on Sunday.
Lind thanks for the trust.
“I asked you to choose me as spokesperson for the Green Party because I want us to be a counter force to selfishness, to mistrust and to hopelessness,” she says in her first speech as new spokesperson.
At the same time, Lind aims a boot at the Tidöparties – “a government that is failing in the face of several of the great challenges of our time”, according to her.
Lind wants to take responsibility for a green policy and building a more humane society.
“I see that we have to get better at showing how our society on the other side of climate change becomes a better society for all of us to live in.”
When Daniel Helldén was elected spokesperson, there was a lot of talk about a split within the party – those who wanted to focus on the climate and those who wanted to broaden the party.
The newly elected spokeswoman Amanda Lind is congratulated by spokeswoman Daniel Helldén at the Environmental Party’s extra congress in Stockholm. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT
Where do you stand on that issue?
“I don’t see that conflict. Environment, climate and nature are our obvious top issues and we have high confidence in that. It is a necessity that we drive that policy and that change,” says Amanda Lind.
“But the transition must be fair, we must have strong welfare and good living conditions throughout the country. This is connected and of course I want to drive that whole.”
Lind believes in the collaboration with the party’s other spokesperson Daniel Helldén.
“We have different experiences and backgrounds. But as a mouthpiece, we must have a common leadership for the Green Party and stand for the entire party’s policy. It will work just fine.”
Amanda Lind, who was tipped as a favorite right from the start, was launched as the election committee’s candidate with the justification that she has “deep roots in the green movement” and can “build together city and country”.
After the party’s economic policy spokesperson Janine Alm Ericson and Riksdag member Annika Hirvonen dropped out, she was also the only remaining candidate.
In a previous interview with TT, Lind describes himself as an “ideological real politician” who strives to be in government, because that is where you “can make a difference”.
