Many Päijät-Häme regional election candidates are ready to set their own municipal services over the benefit of the entire area

Jarmo Kähävaari (co.), Who has influenced both the regional council and the city council, believes that the choice can be very difficult, but the decision -maker must look at the whole.

Some of the Päijät-Häme regional election candidates are ready to place their home country before the area in social services.

The YLE electoral machine asks the candidates if they are ready to compromise on social care services in their home community in the interest of the entire welfare area. 60 % of the candidates who responded would not put the interests of the welfare area ahead of their home country.

You can look more closely at the election machine how the candidates have responded and justified their answers.

Wellbeing areas may need to cut local services due to savings pressure. However, the regional council does not decide on the municipality of its own, but for the whole of Päijät-Häme. Any candidate is also voted in the area, regardless of the home town.

The decision maker in the pounding ward closing

– I was involved in making that decision, and of course it became quite a bit of feedback, says Keskovaari.

The Keskavaari knows that the ward may have, for example, a spouse of the elderly. The healthy party might want to spend a lot of time with their loved ones. If the inpatient ward is somewhere other than in your own municipality, it can be difficult and difficult to get there.

The decision to abolish the inpatient department was thus difficult, but not impossible in this case. The decision to close was slightly facilitated by the fact that another inpatient ward remained in Orimattila.

Future regional councilors will have to weigh similar situations.

– You just have to be able to make decisions that you can live with them yourself. There is really no other way to give it, says Jarmo Kähävaari.

He sees that conflicts of interest are always created in positions of trust. In the municipal council, a politician must consider whether the interest of his own village or the whole municipality is looking at the interests of the whole municipality. In Parliament, it is necessary to consider whether the whole country’s interests are preceded by an important issue in its own constituency.

– But those who get to such a responsible place must always be able to look at the whole.