The president of the Swedish Social Democratic youth organisation, Anna Sjödin, was charged for violent assault on a guard at a restaurant in Stockholm a few months ago. She was recently sentenced for this and for stealing his badge and calling him racist names. She does not want to resign.
In the new right-wing government, the minister of Culture, Cecilia Stegö Chilò, has not paid television licence for the last 16 years. She does not want to resign.
The new minister of trade, Maria Borelius, employed baby sitters without declaring it; she has not paid her television license since she recently moved back to Sweden from England, she has not paid any tax for the benefit of living for free in a house in Sweden owned by a company from Jersey and she has failed to follow laws to prevent insider trading. She does not want to resign.
These people should be sacked straight away. This would be undemocratic. To prevent people who have committed petty crimes from taking part of the government would exclude a large part of the population, who actually are Swedish citizens, and who have citizen rights. However, even though it is undemocratic, they should be sacked. Honesty is more valuable than democracy.
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