Kristersson: “SD has serious problems”

Published 14 May 2024 at 12.34

Domestic. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) now speaks out about “Cold facts'” alleged revelation that the Sweden Democrats run a “troll factory”.

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Ulf Kristersson commented on TV4's claims at a press conference on Tuesday.

– This is very serious information and the Sweden Democrats must fully answer these questions that are being asked.

SD “appears to have serious problems on his communications department”, according to the Prime Minister.

– I am extremely against smearing and troll accounts. I expect serious answers and that they apologize if they smeared others. It risks damaging trust if it is true.

Kristersson further wants SD to “apologize if they have slandered”.

– I expect serious answers and that they can show what that has happened. And for them to apologize if they have smeared others, I expect nothing less. It is a loss of confidence for politics and definitely for SD if it is true.

The “Troll factory”, as Kalla fakta calls it, turned out in a new episode on Tuesday to consist of about 20 accounts on social media that are managed by SD employees.

What is more serious for the Tidö collaboration, however, is that TV4 also reveals that SD has attacked bourgeois politicians and that they are working to mock the government parties.

Among other things, SD employees are heard in Tuesday's program discussing Alice Teodorescu Måwe, KD's top name before the EU elections.

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– It would be good if you go through what crap you can find about Alice, why we think she is a broom, says communications manager Joakim Wallerstein then.

The Liberals' party leader Johan Pehrson has similar views on the SD revelation as Ulf Kristersson.

“Jimmie Åkesson needs to answer the media's questions and the parties' party secretaries to discuss how we proceed with the issue,” he writes in an email to Aftonbladet.

The moderates' party leader Karin Enström also writes in a comment that SD seems to have “big problems in its communications department”.