Jimmie Åkesson remained on sick leave – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Jimmie Åkesson remained on sick leave – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson has been on sick leave for fatigue since 17 October.

Sick leave was extended until 30 November to 31 January. Now the state party in a press release sick leave will be extended for another two months, until 31 March.

In the press release send party also with a greeting from Jimmie Åkesson, who states that his “recovery goes in the right direction “and that he feels” noticeably better but it’s important not to rush back to work. “

The party’s acting party leader Mattias Karlsson says that the declaration of the Jimmie Åkesson’s recovery pleased him “something extraordinary”

– partly because Jimmie is a personal friend of mine but also because he is Sweden’s best party leader and of course we yearn to have him back in good old shape, says Karlsson in the press release.

On Monday appointed Sweden Democrats Richard Jomshof new party secretary Björn Söder.

Jomshof takes office on February 26 and told the Svenska Dagbladet that his view is that Akesson “intend to come back.”

Richard Jomshof told also that his role would be less administrative than its predecessor, and that he will act more support to the party leader.

– Jimmie has somewhere known that it does not agree to have a party secretary who is tied with the administration that should be performed in white-collar organization, he said.

Björn Söder had himself wanted to remain another few months to “get the new organization in place,” but got cold hand of the party. The compromise instead is that he sits there a month during a transitional period.

– Jimmie has been clear that it is not possible to wait any longer with this change, the other sheep-collar organization solve. That’s why we’ve landed in this compromise, which I think is excellent, says Richard Jomshof.

Latest Jimmie Åkesson self-declared themselves in the media, it was just about the party secretarial question. In an email to the Express wrote Akesson, “it is important that the party continues to develop, and that you do not take my absence as an excuse to postpone important decisions.” He wrote further:

“The last thing I discussed with Mattias Karlsson and Richard Jomshof before my sick leave was precisely the importance of the process of change of party secretary does not stop because of my absence.”