Ahead of a party leadership hearing in the Equmenia church in Vårgårda on Sunday evening, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson (S) was asked if the Social Democrats want to cooperate with the Liberals.
Andersson opened up to that, but added that a collaboration with SD must be “very heavy” for L, given that the party “really stood up historically against fascism and Nazism”.
– They (SD) talk about humiliating nine-year-olds, they have propaganda that there should be a “single ticket to Baghdad” on the subway trains – that was exactly what the Nazis did in the 30s, Andersson said.
Criticized post from SD
With “Baghdad”, Magdalena Andersson refers to Kabul – and more specifically a criticized post on Twitter from SD’s legal policy spokesperson Tobias Andersson from earlier in August. Accompanied by a picture of a subway train covered in SD advertising, he wrote: “Welcome to the migration train. You hold a one-way ticket. Next stop, Kabul!”.
“Jihad Annie”
Magdalena Andersson also commented on high-profile video posts published by SD’s web channel Riks about Annie Lööf (C), who was the suspected target of the deadly attack in Almedalen last summer.
– Or now, after SD Riks has run hate campaigns against Annie Lööf, calling her Jihad-Annie and a traitor, she has then become a potential target for a political murder. And then Jimmie Åkesson says that Annie Lööf should lower the tone? So it’s completely hair-raising, it’s blaming the crime victim. And it is not uncommon in history for men to do this to women, Andersson said.
Åkesson: “Low and unworthy”
SD party leader Jimmie Åkesson comments on Andersson’s statements in writing.
“That is so low and undignified that I do not want to comment. I am happy to discuss matters of fact with Magdalena Andersson, but I do not intend to participate in mud wrestling,” he writes in a reply to TT.