Swedish Politician Takes Break After Election Fraud Allegations
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A candidate from the Left Party who won a seat in the Swedish Riksdag is taking what is being described as a "time out." An investigation into possible election fraud is underway. The candidate is said to have been offered a job at the party office in exchange for giving up his seat in the Riksdag.
Ekstra Bladet
The newly elected politician received 648 personal votes in the Swedish parliamentary election on September 13th.
Documented cash withdrawals, crossed ballot papers and cars that called voters to polling stations. The data from the police's surveillance work is now a central part of the investigation into suspected election fraud in Borlänge - where two V-politicians are at the center. Now both politicians have chosen to take a time out.
Mohamed Abdukardir Ali's vote tally took him to the parliament ahead of more well-known faces. Ali himself is not suspected of any crime. Now suspicions of election fraud are already casting a shadow over the government's deliberations.
The Liberal Party is the focal point of the case, which has attracted great attention in Sweden.
A Swedish Left Party MP who appears to have benefited from election fraud says he will take leave while police investigate the matter. He says he was not involved in the fraud and no information has yet implicated him personally.
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