The high-profile lawyer and former KD leader Peter Althin goes to great lengths to attack Ebba Busch.
He thinks that the party should change its name to “Far Right”.
– With the policy they are now pursuing, KD should ask itself if it has any justification as a party, Althin says to SVT.
As a criminal lawyer, Peter Althin, 80, has participated in some of the country’s most high-profile trials and represented clients such as police murderer Tony Olsson, Knutby pastor Helge Fossmo, Anna Lindh’s murderer Mijailo Mijailovic and the acquitted Joy Rahman.
Althin has sat in the Riksdag for KD, sat on the party’s board and was the legal policy spokesperson for KD. When Ebba Busch was elected party leader, Althin resigned in protest against Busch and the party’s new right-wing policy.
– I do this for my own sake. I want to be able to see myself in the mirror and not support a policy I do not believe in, he then told Aftonbladet.
In SVT’s “Politikbyrån”, he once again directs harsh criticism at Ebba Busch, the party leadership, and suggests that the party should change its name to “Upper Right”.
– With the policy you are now pursuing, KD should ask itself if you have any justification as a party. On the right side, there are enough parties who think pretty much the same, says Peter Althin in the program.
For him, KD was always a party for the weak in society, something that is not true today, he says.
It is with great sadness that I note that the Christian Democrats have left the values that I, and many with me, stood for.
Peter Althin takes a hard line on some of the statements that Ebba Busch has made recently regarding the Easter riots and KD’s own history.
– In addition, the party leader is incredibly ignorant and claims that the Christian Democrats were formed in 1964 as a counterforce to Nazism, which is completely crazy. Then she wonders why the police did not shoot sharply.
He does not understand that new figures presented by SVT show that support is increasing for Ebba Busch.
– It makes it even more embarrassing that there are some who think that what she said about the police being able to shoot sharply was good, says Peter Althin in “Politikbyrån”.