I am outraged. We have an acute situation for herring and Baltic herring in the Baltic Sea, says Anna-Caren Sätherberg, rural policy spokesperson for the Social Democrats.
The Social Democrats are questioning what mandate Kullgren had to agree to the deal with other EU countries.
In the Riksdag's EU Committee, where the government anchors its line ahead of EU negotiations, it was decided that Kullgren would drive a restrictive line – the quotas should not increase but decrease compared to those currently in effect.
When that did not happen, he should have voted no, according to the Social Democrats.
"This action appears to be in direct conflict with the Swedish standpoint taken ahead of the negotiations," it states in the notification to the Riksdag's Constitutional Committee.
He should have voted no. The government has done so in other issues, even when it has been the chair. This is actually unbelievable and a death blow to the Baltic herring and small-scale fishing, says Sätherberg.
