Left parties want Delgado to leave.
On April 7, Lorena Delgado shared a picture on the platform X, which was reported to the police as an incitement against people group by the Jewish Central Council. The prosecutor later closed the caseon the grounds that a intent could not be determined, but at the same time described the post as seriously.
The incident breathed new life into the allegations that the Left Party had not done enough to clean up anti -Semitism out of the party.
This weekend, V’s party board met and discussed the case Lorena Delgado Varas – a discussion described as « upset » by several people who participated. The question is sensitive and there is therefore a reluctance to comment openly. However, DN has received a consistent picture of the meeting from several different sources.
– My picture is that there was a large majority that is very tired of having a leading representative with such poor judgment and a problematic approach in principle important issues, says one of the meeting participants.
– Nobody thinks that Lorena is anti -Semite, but it shows incredibly bad judgment to share images that are obviously anti -Semitic, says another.
The latest events Described as the drop that caused the beaker to run over. Other events highlighted by DN’s sources are a manifestation for terrorist -rated PKK in Almedalen, as well as that Lorena Delgado Varas has borne Palestinian shawl in Parliament’s chamber, in violation of agreed rules.
Several of DN’s reporting agents point out that foreign policy is not at all Lorena Delgado Vara’s area of responsibility. The danger of the party is that it is still her play that puts the picture of what the Left Party stands for in the Palestine issue. Something that the party’s opponent regularly used as a bat.
At the party board’s meeting, from several directions, Lorena Delgado was stated in the consequence of the consequence must submit her assignments, as a member of parliament and as a party board member.
– I do not see that she can continue as a representative and there were several with me who thought she had to leave all assignments. This situation stands in the way of the policy we want to pursue, it puts sticks in the wheel, says a source.
There are within the Left Party A great commitment to the cause of the Palestinians, and Lorena Delgado Varas has become a profile among the activists. However, being able to distinguish between criticism of Israel and anti -Semitism is crucial, emphasizes the left -wing parties that DN has spoken to.
– If you cannot represent the Left Party’s values properly, you are in the wrong place, says another.
On the other hand, those with whom DN has said do not have spoken that there must necessarily be excluded from the party. No decision was made at the party board meeting, but a participant describes it as the executive committee being given a broad mandate to remedy « an unsustainable situation ».
Party secretary Maria Forsberg Do not want to give any further information on what will happen.
– We have conversations with Lorena, what has happened is incredibly serious and we discuss the future, she says.
DN has applied for Lorena Delgado Varas for a comment but she has not returned. She herself sits on the party board but did not attend this weekend’s meeting. Following the police report against her division at X, she has taken a break from her political assignments.
Lorena Delgado Varas has in a Facebook post called the split on X as a mistake and described that she deleted the post after she was noticed on its importance.
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