Sweden Democrats lose Riksdag seat
Published: 26 Sep 11 08:10 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/36354/20110926/
The Sweden Democrats have a lost a Riksdag seat following a decision by William Petzäll to leave the party and sit as an independent as a result of his alcohol and prescription drug abuse.
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There has been speculation in the media in the past week that Petzäll had fallen out of favour with the party leadership who harboured concerns over his parliamentary performance.
Petzäll was absent from a number of votes in the Riksdag last week without having submitted a request for sick leave.
According to Expressen, the 23-year-old plans to use his seat in the Riksdag to "push my pet issue and increase awareness. To develop more concrete measures to help young alcoholics and drug addicts."
"I am prepared to talk to all parties in the Riksdag where there is common ground for my pet issue," he said.
Petzäll was forced to take time out from politics in February after he turned up at a party in Trelleborg drunk, later spending the night in a police jail cell to sober up.
The party was being hosted by his ex-girlfriend and according to a police report Petzäll caused damage in his drunken state.
"What happened is obviously unacceptable. As one of the party's Riksdag representatives, one must always exercise good judgement," the Sweden Democrats' deputy Riksdag group leader Sven-Olof Sällström said in a statement at the time.
After a month out of the Riksdag to deal with his abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs, Petzäll returned pledging to leave politics if he erred again.
Attempts by The Local to reach William Petzäll for a comment have proved unsuccessful.
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I HOPE HE CAN REDISCOVER HIMSELF BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE
What baffles me is that this guy is 22 year old, so essentially just a kid. He cannot control his own life, how would you expect him to lead as a politician.
Swedish politics baffles me. Why can't you put people who have some real life experience as your leaders (you know, raised children, paid for a house, worked in a steady job for many years, can balance their cheque book, been a exemplary citizen, actually contributed back to Swedish welfare system for one).
Sweden does not need outsiders to destroy it's self. It can do so by electing more "kids" into power. Where are the union workers, where are community leaders? I think there is a very big vacuum here.
These are kids who have no agenda but trying to ride the anti-immigrant train.
That being said, this guy clearly has some problems.
now they will say we most bring even more immigrants to sweden and get them mixed to the originaries
@truthworthy
I truly wish we knew one another RL. Then you could put your money where your mouth is and i could earn some free cash :)
"I truly wish we knew one another RL. Then you could put your money where your mouth is and i could earn some free cash :)"
i wouldn't recommend that for you!
by 2014, Sweden and the rest of the world will be seriously busy with other things then 'how many seats will SD get" ;)
Why not? You think it is a bad bet? Or you think @truthworthy is a boring aquaintence?
Just in case you think it's funny or disparaging to "look gay" ... I'm glad to report that the reason he took a break from politics was one of his drunken acts of destruction in his girlfriend's apartment.
Officially, he's straight. I for one hope he keeps it that way.
lol reminds of a political party in my country. They won the elections with unexpected high number of votes and clean sweep-ed few areas. They were taken by shock. So unprepared were they, that their politicians, who were in govt at that moment, were complaining about the policies of their own govt. :) Well I guess that was the last time we saw them in power
Independent in the Ridsdag or else he would have been asked to leave as I am
sure the Party concern is firm in their Party's code of ethics.A party that is weak in
their Code of Ethics and Rules wouldn't last long and The Sweden Democrat is
proving to the Swedish Public that the votes given to Sweden Democrat is not in
vain and I believe that more support would pour in for the Sweden Democrat in
the next Election due to the Party's understanding of what the Swedish Public want.