"They sent in two people to manipulate the outcome. This has never happened before... it doesn't look like anything else than conscious manipulation of the result."
"A reasonable thing to do, of course, would be to take the initiative to put this issue to a new vote."
"The Sweden Democrats acknowledged that they had sent two MPs who were on the agreed list of non-voting MPs to vote against the opposition motion."
"Linda Lindberg, the party's group leader, said that the move had been necessary to prevent 'power hungry independent MPs' from upsetting the system."
The Sweden Democrat party has been accused of violating parliamentary protocols by sending two MPs to vote on a citizenship law proposal, despite an agreement for their absence. The motion was defeated by one vote, even with support from former Sweden Democrat MPs. Green MP Annika Hirvonen condemned the action as unprecedented manipulation, suggesting it would have consequences. Sweden's pairing system, kvittning, allows parties to balance votes, but the Sweden Democrats were only allowed to participate in 2021 after a decade of exclusion.
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