Linnea Engström sat in the EU Parliament for the Green Party between 2014 and 2019. Before the election last year, she was removed from the nomination committee's proposal on who would be on the list, but she still wanted to run in the membership vote that would be held before the final decision. tas.
Then she got into trouble.
- Then an internal process was started that was full of legal uncertainty, she says.
Text about nomination ban
The party leadership started an investigation against her, in which she was accused by the party leadership of misconduct with money and of having caused a bad working environment for the staff in Brussels.
She was never told that the auditing firm that the party itself had not found any errors was irrelevant and she never found out what the accusations that she was, among other things, "difficult to cooperate with and moody" more closely consisted of.
Late in the evening, hours before the membership vote was to start, she received a text message informing her that the party board had banned her from being nominated.
So she was not allowed to show up.
"Apologize"
Kurdo Baksi says that several party members have suffered badly in recent years.
He mentions a case where a member of parliament was kicked out of the parliamentary group during the metoo autumn, without being allowed to take part in what was charged to him, and an official in the Riksdag who Baksi believes was subjected to false accusations of being a security risk.
- In order for the Green Party to be able to move forward now when they have to choose a new female spokesperson, the party must have an accident commission and apologize to every single party member they have injured, he says.
SVT Nyheter has on several occasions applied to the Green Party's party board for a comment, but without results.