Sweden’s commercial TV channel TV4 revealed that at the party office of the Swedish Democrats, offensive messages are written under fake names about, among other things, representatives of the governing parties.
STOCKHOLM In Sweden, the governing parties are dismayed by the revelation that the Sweden Democrats maintain troll or fake accounts insulting representatives of other parties.
The troll accounts were revealed when the commercial TV4 channel Kalla Fakta – program reporter washed up to work in the information department of the party office of the Swedish Democrats.
The reporter used a hidden camera, which recorded the conversations about, among other things, the messages insulting the EU election candidates of the governing parties.
Between the Sweden Democrats and the three governing parties In the Tidö contract public defamation of contractual partners is specifically prohibited.
Leader of the National Assembly, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says that the offensive messages machined by the support party make it difficult for the parties to cooperate and threaten Sweden’s political system. Deeply disappointed, Kristersson intends to take the matter through with the chairman of the Sweden Democrats by Jimmie Åkesson with.
Kalla fakta’s editorial team has been able to identify 23 troll accounts, the content of which is machined from the party office. Based on the Sweden Democrats’ own speeches, there could be up to a hundred accounts. There are troll accounts identified by Kalla Fakta on Tiktok, Facebook and Instagram. At least two employees have been hired in the party office for fake accounts.
Interviewed by the newspaper Dagens Nyheter chairman of the Liberal Party Johan Persson and chairman of the Christian Democrats Ebba Busch consider the Sweden Democrats to be blatantly violating the parties’ joint Tidö agreement.
They write particularly contemptuously in the messages Alice Teodorescu from Måwewho is the leading candidate of the Christian Democrats in the EU elections.
– It would be good if we looked for something outrageous about Alice, with which we could justify why we hate her, says the information manager of the Sweden Democrats Joakim Wallerstein In the Kalla fakta program.
Åkesson thinks it’s satire
Chairman of the Sweden Democrats Jimmie Åkesson denies that rude messages are made in the party office.
Åkesson uttered his first comment almost six minutes long In a Youtube postin which he considered the Kalla Fakta shows to be just an effort to damage the party a few weeks before the EU elections.
in an interview with SVT Åkesson characterized the characterizations of government party representatives as satire and humor.