The alleged climate crisis is making summers increasingly warmer, a development that especially affects children, and more opportunities for swimming and cooling down are needed. This is according to the Green Party in Stockholm City Hall, which is now allocating several million for free admission to outdoor swimming pools.

Stockholm City has eight outdoor pools open to the public. These operate from the end of May or early June until the end of August. Currently, admission is free at three of the pools, something the Green Party wants to implement at all of them.

– The Green Party wants all children in Stockholm to have equal opportunities to swim, play, and practice swimming. Today it can be expensive to go to the city’s outdoor pools, especially if you are a large family or a single parent. That is why we want to abolish the entrance fee for both children and adults, says Lars Strömgren (Green Party), traffic commissioner in Stockholm City.

Currently, the fees are 95 kronor for adults and 20 kronor for children. Removing entrance fees will cost the capital’s taxpayers 8.5 million kronor per year.

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Strömgren refers to the alleged climate crisis and asserts that more people need the chance to cool off in the inferno that Green Party members claim to be experiencing right now in the capital, with temperatures around 20 degrees Celsius during the day and ten at night.

– The climate crisis is making summers in the city ever warmer, which especially affects children. We need to offer more opportunities for swimming and cooling down that all Stockholmers can afford. That is climate justice in practice, says Lars Strömgren (Green Party), traffic commissioner in Stockholm City.

Stockholmers Like the Left

Since the 2022 election, Stockholm has been governed by a red-green coalition consisting of the Social Democrats, the Green Party, and the Left Party—something that Stockholmers seem satisfied with if we judge by how they would vote in a general election today. This is according to the party sympathy survey by Statistics Sweden, released last week.

In Stockholm city, the Social Democrats would be the largest party with 32.5 percent of the votes, followed by the Moderates (16.8) and the Left Party (14.9). The Social Democrats are also the largest in the rest of the county (29.6 percent).

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