(Anadolu) Sweden’s former prime minister has asked a Palestinian member of the country’s parliament to leave his seat after he resigned from the Social Democrats, citing a lack of trust expressed in him by the party’s leadership, local media reported Tuesday.
The move came due to Jamal El-Haj’s participation in a Palestinian solidarity conference last May, despite being asked not to attend by senior Social Democrats over what they described as its links to Hamas.
El-Haj, a member of parliament for the Malmo region, has decided to sit as an independent in the Swedish parliament, or Riksdag. But Magdalena Andersson, the leader of the Social Democrats and a former prime minister, has asked him to leave it completely.
