Our executive committee has today decided to initiate an expulsion process against Kristofer Lundberg in the Angered party association, said Deputy Party Secretary Maria Forsberg to TT earlier on Friday.
Lundberg will be suspended during the process, which means he will lose his rights as a party member. He has so far paused his engagement in the Left Party.
Behind the decision lies a comprehensive assessment. Kristofer Lundberg has through his actions created great uncertainty about what the Left Party stands for in fundamental issues. Central is his support for PFLP, which participated in the attack on October 7, said Forsberg.
The party has had a process to come to terms with this, he has taken a pause, but he has not contributed to the process of solving the problems.
"Media hunt"
According to Lundberg himself, he entered into an agreement with the Left Party's Party Secretary Aron Etzler and District Chairman Håkan Eriksson in connection with his pause from his assignment as chairman of the party association in Angered.
"An agreement I have followed to the letter. But the media pressure became too great. They hope that this will put a stop to a media hunt", he says to GP and continues:
"My commitment to Palestine's liberation has neither begun nor ended in the Left Party. We continue our work together with other comrades in Sweden and internationally against Israel's genocide".
More have left the party
Earlier this fall, two Left Party representatives in Malmö and Landskrona left the party after being criticized for anti-Semitic statements. In one of the cases, the person was first banned.
Do Left Party members have a harder time than others drawing the line against supporting terrorist-listed organizations or against anti-Semitic statements?
We have nearly 30,000 members and what you mention are a few individual cases, said Forsberg.
