Lotta Gröning: S i Malmö skadar demokratins trovärdighet

There have been reports that the Social Democrats in Malmö have conditioned their support on organizations helping with the election work How serious is this Are you running for the Social Democrats Yes Or what Yes It's really serious I'm not sure It's a bit tragic what's happening to the Social Democrats I hope they put a stop to it We already have the center and the liberals who have lost their mass support Social Democrats are the largest mass party but they have had so much power for so long In some places they have almost become a state within a state and they also have these members who vote out of duty and loyalty and demand that their relatives also vote for the Social Democrats When they are losing support I am very worried about the development the party has had just this year with what they have been doing on the internet and the lottery business ABF in Botkyrka There were people wearing protective vests at the recreation house and connected to criminal gangs and so on This revelation came this week it was the quarter that released it and the Social Democrats in Malmö are also providing support to associations so that these associations can help the Social Democrats in their election work This is obviously public money that the Social Democrats are using to benefit themselves It is completely illegal This cannot be allowed to happen Just like it was illegal for the lottery business to threaten the elderly to accuse others of being wizard factories and essentially do the same thing themselves it's now starting to look like a farce I hope they stop and think about their own future because this is very negative for the party as well But it's very negative for democracy and for the credibility of politicians So it's extremely serious Social Democrats have historically not really had a tendency to acknowledge their mistakes but do you see any tendency towards improvement within the Social Democrats No they are really good at shifting blame and moving on just sweeping away what has happened It is actually an achievement for a party to be able to do that They are almost the only ones who can manage it that way But they keep blaming others and never take any responsibility for what they've done instead just making up excuses to blame someone else I don't know how much longer this can go on but it's clearly a feat They often end up burying it too We look into it we hold on for a while and then it gets dropped They are skilled at sweeping big problems under the rug It's the third time the Social Democrats have been caught with a fake news factory In addition there is also this platform Politikkollen that provides young people with incorrect information benefiting the Social Democrats about political parties in Sweden But still this doesn't really show up in the opinion polls It doesn't have a real effect What is the reason for that I don't think we can trust the opinion polls to be honest There are many times when the opinion polls show something completely different and the election has turned out differently When asking 2000 or 3000 people I suppose the majority would be from the Social Democrats I can imagine Often that's also the case in metropolitan areas since that's where the most people live It's probably not too surprising but there still seems to be a slight wavering confidence in Magdalena Andersson It seems there has also been internal criticism with some people demanding that she might have to step down and so on The party secretary Tobias Baudin is acting very tough and hard almost a bit uncomfortable He never takes responsibility for what the party has done instead almost immediately attacking others and saying they are much worse That's how they're going about it I hope they change They are just as uninteresting as the Liberals who have become totally uninteresting the Center equally uninteresting and the Social Democrats who have done so much good for society historically Will it disappear into some kind of nonsense I hope not They have from a social democratic perspective promised a new party program they have promised a new party line they have presented parts of how they envision the future but what can one expect from the Social Democrats I mean they also somehow through the December agreement for example where Stefan Löfven got the responsibility as prime minister and he took on the task that it is we social democrats who are responsible for democracy and that's just not true today We have a difficult political climate that increases the disrespect for politicians and undermines democracy and affects our political parties which still have to respect the people's will and promote a policy that the Swedish people think is good It often fails I can say and many parts of the country are completely excluded they are not represented at all What do you think the Social Democrats need to do What we have seen now with AIP media with political scrutiny accounts that are like foreign agents on social media and now this in Malmö Why does it end up like this in the Social Democrats That's how it ends up because they don't have their own policy because they don't have anything credible to present to voters and so they do everything possible to influence voters organizationally and in various ways It often involves immigrant voters whom they believe can benefit greatly and complement some aspects of their policy such as increased benefits Social Democrats are on their way to a new generation We have Blue Lefts Therese Kvaljo and others What can one expect from this shift How can the Social Democrats develop One can still hope that some new people will come in They have very many old supporters who have been involved in elections after elections become ministers in elections after elections in governments after governments and they really need to renew themselves It's good I'm hoping for the young new ones Do you see trends indicating a change is coming No I don't see it But I do see the trend of them bringing in a few new people which is great But I don't see any major changes in the party structure yet