Kristersson's assistant press secretary Hanna Strömberg answers "yes" to a question from TT about what the press secretary Siri Steijer has stated to SVT, namely that "SVT must turn off the microphone for Dadgostar when she does not have the word. If not, I will recommend the Prime Minister not to participate in the future”.
Strömberg writes further in an SMS to TT that ”no other message has been given by either the Prime Minister or anyone else”.
The Prime Minister says to P4 Göteborg that he ”promises to participate in many debates”, but ”to gape and shout and interrupt each other, that's not what we should do in Swedish politics”.
Sunday's party leader debate on SVT came to be characterized by several heated exchanges, including between Dadgostar and the Christian Democrats' party leader Ebba Busch.
Kristersson said afterwards to SVT that his ”press secretary has expressed a fairly distinct view that it cannot be the case that we others are kidnapped in a kind of gladiatorial game”.
