The Swedish Social Democrats - where power is everything

For transparency and my own agenda, I strongly dislike our previous government, the Social Democrats with the support of the Green Party and the tacit acceptance of the Left Party. Politically, I am very far from the Swedish Social Democrats, their partner parties, communism and socialism.

Ever since May 2023, the Social Democratic Party has had to defend its Member of Parliament Jamal El-Haj. In May 2023, it emerged that he planned and attended a conference for Palestine with Hamas connections.

At a debate in Sweden's Parliament on 15 November 2023 between Social Democrats party leader Magdalena Andersson and Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, the prime minister said that there is "a certain terror romance" within certain social democratic circles.

Magdalena Andersson defended Jamal El-Haj in this debate by saying that Jamal El-Haj has fought against Hamas his whole political life. Magdalena Andersson also pointed out in an emotional exchange between herself and Ulf Kristersson that Jamal El-Haj had recently lost family members in the war in Gaza, his daughter-in-law's family.

This turned out to be untrue as Jamal El-Haj's son is unmarried according to Swedish public records.

In his attempts to save his reputation and position, Jamal El-Haj sued another member of parliament for defamation, which was later dropped.

It was not until January 24, 2024 that Jamal El-Haj gave his first and so far only interview before the uncomfortable links to the terrorist organization Hamas were discovered. In this interview, he admitted that his main loyalty is to his origin, otherwise he would never be able to look his mother in the eye.

Despite the fact that the Social Democratic Member of Parliament has admitted that his main loyalty lies outside Sweden's borders, he still had his party's trust.

It wasn't until February 9, 2024, when a journalist unearthed documentation about how Jamal El-Haj contacted the Swedish Migration Agency in June 2017 and tried to influence them to let a conservative imam stay in Sweden, that the Social Democratic Party distanced itself from Jamal El-Haj.

Because Jamal El-Haj is elected by the people of Malmo city, the Social Democratic Party cannot get him excluded from the Parliament. However, they have asked him to voluntarily leave his position.

My guess is that Jamal El-Haj will choose to leave the Social Democratic Party and instead join the Nuance party which is a party with Muslim representatives.