SVT has taken part in a recording from a meeting between the local party board and the culture and leisure committee chairman Robert Aslan (S). There, several members are heard expressing wishes that certain wording in the grant rules for student associations should be rewritten – something that Robert Aslan opposes.
The recording, which The evening paper was the first to tell about, have received municipal councilor Dag Ahlse (C) and the Moderates’ party secretary, Karin Enström, to react.
– Magdalena Andersson and Tobias Baudin must clean up their party. Blackmail and coups do not belong in a democracy, she writes on Twitter.
“Misinterpreters on purpose”
The conflict flared up last autumn when Botkyrka municipality froze the grant to the study association ABF after it had become known that gang criminals were staying in the study association’s recreational facilities.
And last Friday, ten Social Democratic members sent a letter to the Social Democrats’ party leadership in which they accuse the local leadership of threats and blackmail. In the letter, it is written that “the newly appointed board in the municipality, which is dominated by people with strong personal connections to the student union, now demands that the Botkyrka municipality’s grant regulations be rewritten”.
Emanuel Ksiazkiewicz (S), group leader of S in Botkyrka and chairman of the municipal board, denies that the meeting was about “rewriting” or circumventing any rules.
– On the contrary. The Social Democrats in Botkyrka have landed in a letter that is significantly harsher than the existing one. It’s too fuzzy. This is about deliberately misinterpreting things, he says.
New meeting on Monday
Emanuel Ksiazkiewicz wrote the new letter himself, without the involvement of the leisure board, which is responsible for the issue.
– It is a proposal I have presented to the board of the Social Democrats in Botkyrka. I was tasked with preparing the issue further and the idea is that we will return to the leisure board with it after the summer, he says.
The Social Democrats’ municipal council group in Botkyrka will meet on Monday and talk about the situation.
SVT has contacted the Social Democrats’ party secretary Tobias Baudin, who declines to comment.