Published 23 January 2024 at 07.56
Domestic. KD's choice of liberal opinion leader and Bulletin profiler Alice Teodorescu Måwe as a candidate for the EU Parliament has created strife within the party. The liberal views expressed by the top name also rhyme badly with the party's own lines.
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Alice Teodorescu Måwe replaces Sara Skyttedal as the top name on the Christian Democrats' list, something that has raised harsh internal criticism.
The 39-year-old Bulletin profile has no background in KD and comes from the independent school industry where she worked as a lobbyist for the tax-funded welfare company Academedia.
What the liberal intends to do ate in Brussels in concrete terms is also unclear. In a post on X after the KD announcement, Alice Teodorescu Måwe describes herself as “a warm friend of the EU”, but states vaguely that it “more clearly” needs to be “made clear how Sweden benefits from its membership”.
I March 2023, Alice Teodorescu Måwe was recruited as lead writer at Dagens Nyheter. She was then criticized for not being sufficiently pure liberal by other liberals. She defended herself on X by explaining that she is not “particularly conservative: for abortion, surrogate motherhood, active euthanasia, even prostitution”.
For Expressen, Alice Teodorescu Måwe now states that she has now changed her opinion on the issue about surrogacy, which KD is against. She explains that she “made a journey” (so since March 2023) and “landed that the arguments against are heavier”.
When it comes to active euthanasia – which KD clearly opposes – however, she stands firm at her stance, but explains that it is not an “EU issue” and that it therefore does not matter.
Furthermore, the 39-year-old explains that it was “a very long time ago” that she was in favor of prostitution.