S in Botkyrka has agreed to nominate Ksiazkiewicz as new group leader in the election on March 18, the party's local chairman Jens Sjöström confirms for TT.

Seven of the board's nine members voted for Ksiazkiewicz and the other two abstained.

- We believe that Emanuel can have a very unifying force and is a future force for the party, says Jens Sjöström.

"Heal the Party"

He says that Ksiazkiewicz is suitable because he has been a municipal councilor for seven years and grew up in Norsborg.

If the members follow the board's proposal and vote for Ksiazkiewicz, he will also become the chairman of the municipal board.

- For the board, it is important to find a person who we believe in, who we also feel can carry this mission for the future, who has broad political knowledge and experience, and who we also judge to have the ability to heal the party in the long term and create greater unity, says Sjöström.

Ksiazkiewicz is being challenged by Botkyrka municipality's former leader Ebba Östlin, as well as other candidates nominated by the worker municipality's associations.

Ebba Östlin recently resigned after the members declared at a meeting on January 28 with a narrow majority that they lack confidence in her as group leader or chairman of the municipal board.

Östlin has been replaced by Gabriel Melki (S) while the party finds a new group leader.

Coup information

Several media have reported on information that Östlin may have been poached through some kind of coup.

The coup must have been carried out with the help of people with connections to criminals in the so-called Vårby network who became S members and then helped vote her out.

However, an investigation carried out by the party has found no basis for such a coup.

However, representatives of Östlin's critics have said that it is only a matter of her leadership.

At the bottom is an infected conflict.

In the background there is also a decision by Östlin further back to close leisure centers that ABF ran in the municipality, due to poor conditions.

A report by a security firm from early 2022 said, among other things, that convicted criminals were hired to work with youth and that drugs were found.

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