Published 21 April 2024 at 09.53
Domestic. Anna Kinberg Batra gave her friends top jobs with diffuse tasks at the county administrative board in Stockholm and is therefore being investigated for corruption by JO. But already now Staffanstorp's strongman Christian Sonesson (M) wants the government to fire its super-corrupt governor.
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“Many strange trips have been discovered in the media lately. These have been tried to be answered with rather embarrassing interviews. If you don't have the sense to take responsibility yourself and resign, then of course the government must regret its appointment and remove the governor. That must be an end to the embarrassment the circus now,” writes Sonesson on Facebook.
Ulf Kristersson has said that there is a “crisis of confidence” and welcomes the JO investigation, but so far he has not commented on whether the government has confidence in the governor.
Even Expressen's managing director Patrik Kronqvist believes that the government must act.
“If the government is serious about its fight against organized crime, Ulf Kristersson must fire Anna Kinberg Batra”, he writes in Expressen and states that Sweden repeatedly criticized by the OECD because the country has not criminalized the most common types of corruption.
According to Kronqvist, it is not strange that the gangs are now infiltrating state functions in Sweden, because crony corruption is seen as something natural and it is so easy to recruit friends and relatives once you get a foot in the door.
“When it comes to fighting corruption, Sweden is the closest thing to a developing country”, notes Patrik Kronqvist.