Two candidates near the bottom of the lists were elected to the Eskilstuna City Council and the Riksdag. This same kind of vote-shifting is evident in other places as well, most recently in the investigation into the Left Party’s seat in the Riksdag in Dalarna.
In the Eskilstuna City Council election, two candidates were voted in who were far from the top of the list. This was pointed out, among others, by the Sweden Democrats council member Adam Marttinen in a post on X.
Paul Sabo was ranked 7th on the Christian Democrats' ticket and will take one of the party's three seats in the Riksdag. Ali Mohamed Isse was ranked 10th on the Left Party’s ticket and will take one of the party’s seven seats in Eskilstuna Municipality. According to Marttinen, Isse’s commitment is primarily religious. He is mentioned once in Ekuriren 2021, in a text about Eid celebrations in the Islamic faith.
The same pattern across all of Sweden
Candidates with foreign backgrounds, including Somalis, are placed far down on the ballots, garner personal votes in a closed constituency, and surpass candidates the party has endorsed. Seats on city councils, regional councils, or in the national parliament change hands without most voters having even seen the candidates’ faces during the campaign.
In Dalarna, an investigation is currently underway into suspected election fraud involving the Left Party’s Mohamed Abdukardir Ali was elected to the Riksdag, which Freedom News reported. The information concerns marked banknotes and their transport to the premises. Ali denies the allegations. No one has been notified of any suspicion. Noah has taken over the case.
In Eskilstuna, no similar report has been published—only two municipal seats where the order of the list was not followed.
Voting for individual candidates is legal, which is an important part of the democratic system. But when the same kind of voting for individual candidates occurs repeatedly in several parts of the country, with the same kind of network behind it, it ceases to be a mere curiosity. It becomes a tactic that is being exploited.
Maybe a few more people will wake up now.
It is sad that our democracy is the greatest threat to our democracy.