In early November, former Umeå chairman Marcus Bornemisza, former vice chairman Martin Jansson, former treasurer Helen Östlund and former secretary Andreas Figaro were excluded.

Private chat

The reason must have been, among other things, that in a private chat they talked about leaking information about internal problems to the media. Marcus Bornemisza says he has no idea how the chat conversation came out.

- It is a private chat group where we have had thoughts and discussions and it is incomprehensible how it came out, he says.

In this chat you have discussed internal problems and had thoughts of going out in the media with these problems. Is it not reasonable for the party to react?

- No, on the contrary. We needed to ventilate our thoughts and discussions about this in a private chat, says Marcus Bornemisza.

"Was about an overtramp"

SVT News Västerbotten has sought SD's party leadership with questions about their views on exclusion, but they have chosen to respond in writing.

Ludvig Grufman, the Swedish Democrat's press secretary, writes that as a member of the party "it is expected to follow the party's guidelines, routines and communication plan. In cases where exclusion has become extremely relevant, it has been about an overtramp which is considered so significant that other solutions are deemed insufficient in the cases concerned. This is a process laid down in the party's statutes, and where the person concerned is given the opportunity to speak. "