The popular presenter Lasse Kronér is best known from programs such as “Doobidoo” and “Smarter than a fifth grader”. Kronér is current with the sing-along “Lasse på slottet” which will be held at Tjolöholm Castle.
This week, Kronér took part in an interview with Dagens ETC where he, who otherwise does not usually comment on politics, directs sharp criticism at Sweden’s prime minister Ulf Kristersson and the government.
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In the interview, he says, among other things, that Ulf Kristersson “deserves to end up in hell”.
The background to the statement is that Kristersson repeatedly promised the Holocaust survivor Heidi Fried that he would never cooperate with the Sweden Democrats, a promise that Kristersson broke.
In an interview with Expressen, Kronér explains that he does not think you should lie to a 90-year-old woman who has been in Auschwitz.
– Now we started talking about this with the government, and I think it’s a scandal, and then I have to say it, he tells the newspaper.
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Criticism of Kristersson: “Lies become truth”
Kronér develops:
– All of us have the responsibility to be well-read on what I myself think, what I think is uninteresting, but that I think is important. So that we don’t end up in a populism, where someone can stand and wave a falu sausage and so on. Where lies become truth, it is so simple that it becomes today. That lie, or lies, they are so specific. There is a candidate for Prime Minister sitting and telling lies. I haven’t seen that before.
Ulf Kristersson, then opposition leader, met Fried in 2018. After the meeting, Kristersson announced that he told Heidi Fried that he, together with the Moderates, the Christian Democrats, the Liberals and the Center Party, would never cooperate with the Sweden Democrats.
Currently, only the first three, i.e. the Moderates, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals, cooperate with the Sweden Democrats.
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Kronér: “Somebody has to say something”
When Expressen asks why Kronér now chooses to speak out about his political positions, he replies that he felt it was necessary.
– Someone has to say something. We cannot live in a society where everyone goes around lying and no one dares to take a stand anymore, or dare to say: This is how it is, says Kronér to the newspaper.
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