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February 14, 2012
Two candidates caught buying sex in union flat
Published: 19 Aug 10 09:38 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/28452/20100819/
Two Social Democratic election candidates from central Sweden were caught by police having sex with prostitutes in a Swedish Trade Union Confederation (Landsorganisationen i Sverige, LO) flat in Stockholm.
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Police detectives caught sight of one of them on Malmskillnadsgatan just after 2am, when the man was negotiating to buy sex with two foreign prostitutes.
The police followed him to the apartment in central Stockholm, which belongs to an LO association.
Police entered the apartment, which was unlocked. They encountered the two men, who were engaging in sexual acts with the women.
Both men are candidates for the Social Democrats as delegates in their respective counties in central Sweden. One of them is involved in the union and has held local political office, while the other person is an elected representative within LO.
"I will resign from all my positions," one of the men told Aftonbladet.
Social Democrat party secretary Ibrahim Baylan said that if the information about buying sex is true, the men have forfeited the party's confidence and he expects them to relinquish all their responsibilities with the party.
"It is not consistent with what the Social Democrats represent," Baylan said.
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hormones"
PROOF:
After drinking
1. Swedish men talk unnecessarily,
......2.Become over emotional,
3.Drive badly,
4.Stop thinking,
5. Fight for nothing....
6. Look for prostitutes
Why should it matter what part of your body gets rubbed? :-P
-More unnecesarry work for the police who could better be busy fighting real crime
-more rape
-bad conditions for prostitutes (and everybody knows that when you make things illegal they don't go away)
I find it very conservative from Sweden that prostitution is still illegal. Make it legal and you can have prosititutes pay taxes but of course also get all the benefits. And you can keep a good eye out to make sure these women don't get mistreated by both customers and pimps.
Only if you're a union member!!
So maybe the law and the pointless waste of police resources does have it's benefits after all :)
Social Democrats = S
Sweden Democrats = SD
So it's not candidates from SD that are involved in this, but candidates from S.
better to be accused of race hate crimes than using prostitutes, or is it the fact thet they used foreign prostitutes that irks?
nothing new. Move along now, nothing to see here.
What's with the attitude? I simply corrected rugla's mistake, no one should be accused of something they haven't done, no matter what their opinions are. I said nothing about anything else. I don't know why you jump at me like that.