It was Left Party MP Ilona Szatmári Waldau who praised and sent supportive messages to a terrorist on social media. She has since distanced herself from the posts and called them a mistake.
The posts were part of a campaign in which several Left Party MPs wrote letters of support to Palestinian prisoners, which Expressen was first to reveal.
We have taken down all parts of this campaign. We should have handled this better. That is absolutely true, and therefore we will go through this with great care and what went wrong, says party leader Nooshi Dadgostar at a press conference ahead of the start of the Left Party's election tour.
Earlier this year, Expressen revealed that 25 Left Party candidates had expressed support for terrorist groups and praised dictatorships, mainly linked to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Twenty-two of them have since been removed from the party's ballot or voluntarily dropped out.
