On Tuesday, Magdalena Andersson took over as Sweden's Prime Minister and presented the new ministers.
The same evening, Aftonbladet revealed that Annika Strandhäll (S), new Minister of Climate and Environment, has cases with the Enforcement Officer due to unpaid bills.
Initially, Strandhäll stated that she had no more debts than the two that Aftonbladet first reported on.
But now it has turned out that she has had nine payment orders with the authority since 2018. Strandhäll explained that she has had an extremely turbulent time behind her after her partner quickly passed away in the autumn of 2019.
Paul Ronge, media adviser and crisis manager, believes that Strandhäll should have told it directly.
- It is a matter of trust to be a politician.
You are absolutely not allowed to lie, and she started by lying and saying that she had no injunctions with the Enforcement Officer.
Now she has come up with a good explanation but one wonders why she did not say it from the beginning, says Ronge in SVT's Morgonstudion.
- It was the worst possible crisis management.
Annika Strandhäll may not have wanted to prove vulnerable, but it went completely wrong, he says.
"Be spontaneous and lie"
Paul Ronge believes that Strandhäll would have received understanding and sympathy if she had immediately gone out and said as it was.
- I get the feeling that from the beginning she was spontaneous, and then she lied.
It does not work in a trust industry where you have to tell the truth, pay your bills and be trusted.
Strandhäll was surprised
That on Wednesday it turned out to be a total of nine cases, Annika Strandhäll has described as surprising.
- Firstly, I did not have a real picture that it was about nine payment orders.
Then it was also the case that there were orders to pay bills that I had already handled, Strandhäll told SVT on Wednesday.