Updated 10.09 | Published 09.55
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Johan Pehrson’s whisper to Jimmie Åkesson shows that they have both become good friends, say L sources.
The anger in the party is described as worse than in a very long time – but for fear of being left out of the EU elections, they keep quiet.
– Johan Pehrson’s actions are incomprehensible, careless and careless, says a source in the party.
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“A little more bickering,” said Johan Pehrson (L) to Jimmie Åkesson (SD) in the Riksdag’s plenary session, the second before they were both due to debate each other. Åkesson responded with a clenched fist.
The scene has caused the opposition to go to the roof and claim that Pehrson is engaged in theatre.
Even within the Liberals, according to Aftonbladet’s sources, there is dissatisfaction with the party leader’s actions. To come out hard and condemn SD’s anonymous accounts when you then show a completely different side in the pulpit sends out strange signals to the public, according to a source.
The picture conveyed is then that the condemnation has no impact whatsoever on the relationship between the party leaders. In fact, Johan Pehrson and Jimmie Åkesson have become good friends and that is not something that is well received by their voters, the source reasons further.
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full screen Jimmie Åkesson (SD) and Johan Pehrson (L) Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT Nyhetsbyrån
Like each other and have the same style
Another L source is inside the same line.
– They have simply become friends. That’s what you get when you collaborate like this. You already got that picture in Svenska dagbladet’s article about how it happened when the Tidö Agreement was signed. They like each other and they have a bit of the same style, says the source.
– I think Johan Pehrson is genuinely upset about the troll accounts, but at the same time he is extremely keen to continue this collaboration. That is what is replayed here.
A person in L med testifies that Kalla Fakta’s disclosure, and SD’s actions afterwards, have caused considerably more internal division and anger within the Liberals than what appeared externally. The person says that the party’s members of parliament feel humiliated by the fact that the SD rather makes fun of the Liberals’ demand to stop the anonymous accounts.
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full screen Johan Pehrson (L) during the debate. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT News Agency
Laughing in our faces
The irritation grew even more after Expressen’s information that the two SD employees joked with Pommac and student badges after receiving training in the Tidö collaboration’s respect clause.
– There is no doubt that they laugh in the faces of their partners. They also pull the rug out for Kristersson and make him appear like a fool, says an L source.
The internal dissatisfaction in L would have been heard more outwardly if it weren’t for the EU election, says an L source. The party does poorly in several opinion polls, in Aftonbladet/Demoskop’s latest voter barometer, L receives only 2.8 percent.
– People bite together. Priority one is to keep our mandate in parliament, says a source.
Aftonbladet has searched for Johan Pehrson without success. His press secretary Elin Olofsson explained the whisper in a comment to Aftonbladet yesterday.
“Johan states on his way to the podium during an EU debate that, in his response to Jimmie Åkesson, he will continue to argue with the Sweden Democrats about the EU and their Swexit fantasies,”
Pehrson whispered “a little more fuss” to Åkesson during Thursday’s parliamentary debate.