The background is well known by now. Ingerö was forced to resign last week – according to Ebba Busch for unrelated reasons – and at the same time Skyttedal reported him to the police for molesting her during a party in 2014 – a charge that Ingerö denies. However, police dismissed the report because sexual harassment is barred after five years.
Sara Skyttedal says in the interview that she has chosen to keep good mine for all these years, but that she was close to sounding the alarm internally when she learned that Ingerö would become party secretary last autumn. She also says she was about to speak in connection with metoo, but that she settled for a hint on Facebook.
"The situation is becoming very unpleasant"
What broke the camel's back was instead a conflict over drug policy, her move to legalize cannabis and a planned interview with SVT that the party leadership disliked. She says Ingerö called her when she was in hospital with her son and yelled at her as she stood her ground to conduct the interview.
- The tone and language tear up old wounds. The situation becomes very unpleasant, even though it is so banal," she says.
In retrospect, she regrets not pushing the cannabis issue in a different way, given the sentiments that were stirred up in the party.
She also fears that her police report may have made her a pariah and that she risks losing her job as an MEP.
"Centrally, the party has treated me with care. But I realize that individual members find it hard to read about what happened and don't know what to say to me," she says.