The Brussels Calling program follows four Swedish EU parliamentarians behind the scenes in the corridors of power in the EU.
One of them is the Center Party's Fredrik Federley, who on Friday announced that he was leaving all his political assignments, after he said earlier in November this year that he would take a break from politics.
This after it became known that a man who was close to him, had previously been sentenced to prison for several serious crimes, including several aggravated rapes of children in 2014.
SVT: The program will be broadcast
Fredrick Federley's previous relationship with the convicted man, as well as the news that he is leaving politics, is not affecting SVT's upcoming broadcasts of the program Brussels Calling.
It will be broadcast as planned.
- The man convicted of rape is not described or mentioned at all in the program and we had no knowledge of him or his crime when we recorded, says the program's project manager Patrick Bratt.
According to the Center Party's party secretary Michael Arthursson, Federley has known about his close relatives' crimes for a "long time" and Arthursson says that confidence in Federley is damaged.
It's not about politicians' privacy
At the same time, the Brussels Calling program continues to tell a completely different story, with Federley still a successful EU parliamentarian.
Patrick Bratt emphasizes that the program is not about the privacy of politicians but their job as MEPs.
- Our program does not depict his private life at all, it is about his and the other participating politicians' professional practice.
The program takes place before everything was discovered, says Patrick Bratt.