Magdalena Andersson demands new talks after troll revelations

The Social Democrats demand new talks within the National Security Council.

The reason is the revelations about the Sweden Democrats’ methods on social media.

– It is astonishing that Ulf Kristersson has not marked more clearly, says S party leader Magdalena Andersson.

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In recent weeks, it has emerged that the Sweden Democrats are secretly paying people to support the party on social media.

TV4’s Kalla fakta has reported, among other things, that the Sweden Democrats run anonymous accounts to denigrate other parties.

of the Social Democrats party leader Magdalena Andersson is now demanding new party leader talks due to the revelations.

– The Sweden Democrats work systematically to influence the Swedish political conversation and it is completely hair-raising, where, for example, FOI said that this is serious from a democratic point of view, says Magdalena Andersson.

– Despite that, Jimmie Åkesson has neither clearly distanced himself from the working methods nor even said that they should stop doing it.

Wants to convene the National Security Council

At the end of April, the National Security Council met infocloseNational Security Council The National Security Council is led by the Prime Minister and consists of the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Civil Defense, the Minister of Finance and other party leaders who are part of the government. Heads of authorities can also be invited to inform about a particular issue. Source: The government to discuss the security situation ahead of the upcoming EU elections in June.

The party leaders of the opposition parties were also invited to the meeting where Henrik Landerholm, Sweden’s national security adviser, Magnus Hjort, director general of the Psychological Defense Agency and Anna Nyqvist, head of office at the Swedish Electoral Authority, informed about the situation.

But that was before the recent revelations about SD’s methods on social media.

S now wants to see new talks within the National Security Council where Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) must clarify whether the government will act against SD’s activities on social media.

– It is astonishing that Ulf Kristersson has not marked more clearly nor clearly demanded that the Sweden Democrats stop using these methods, says Magdalena Andersson.

S also had plans for campaigns on social media

In 2018, Aftonbladet revealed that S in Stockholm county offered young and influential people on social media thousands of kroner in compensation for carrying out the party’s policy.

The party backed down after Aftonbladet’s questions about the offer.

Magdalena Andersson says that it is clear that the party centrally distanced itself from this and that no campaign was carried out locally because it was not transparent.

– We were clear even then that this was not good. You shouldn’t do that. It should be transparent and it would be very good if the Sweden Democrats could say the same thing, says the S leader.