The resignation of Laila Freivalds; a lame stunt by the opposition!
Today it was announced that the Swedish foreign minister, Laila Freivalds, handed in her letter of resignation due to pressure after the closing down of a right nationalistic party's website after publishing the so called Muhammad-drawings. It was done in the name of protecting swedish citizens abroad and was considered treason from the party's side. If this decision was wrong or not is open for discussion. However, being election year in Sweden, the opposition du Freivalds party, the ruling socialdemocrates, put a lot of pressure on Freivalds to resign. This reflected in media and the general press who encourage badmouthing of the minister. Small pieces of dirt was dug up and published together with out-of-context comments, making Freivalds look bad. I am just worried that the political climate in Sweden is starting to look more and more similar to the ones in Italy and the US. Can't we have a political sphere with clean agenda politics and not based on badmouthing and day-to-day arguments. Straighten up politicians. I am on the side of the oppositition, but I prefer to have a clean fight and not taking advantage of circumstances that doesn't improve our stand, just make the other side look bad. Lets have a revision of thoughts before september!!!
posted by Dale @ 3/21/2006 06:09:00 AM
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