A left-wing Swedish politician, whose party advocates for locals to further mix with migrant communities to ease integration concerns, refused to answer questions on the topic when challenged at a meeting in Malmö over the weekend.
Lawen Redar, the Social Democrats’ spokesperson on integration and the architect of the party’s new strategy to combat segregation, was questioned by Malmö politician Nils Littorin, who leads the Malmö List party.
Littorin approached Redar at a public meeting she was holding in the Swedish city, but the left-wing politician objected to the filming of the exchange, and swiftly walked away, refusing to answer any questions.
Remix News published an English translation of the exchange.
WATCH: 🇸🇪 A left-wing Swedish MP makes a swift exit when she is asked about her party's call for the forced mixing of Swedes and immigrants.
She runs away when asked which members of her party's leadership will be moving to Stockholm's migrant-dominated suburbs.
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— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) March 9, 2026“That’s not okay. You didn’t ask me in advance. No. Turn it off. Turn it off,” Redar said when she noticed Littorin filming.
When Littorin refused, Redar told him, “You have to ask me if you want to ask me questions and if I want to be filmed.”
Littorin had challenged her on her party’s stance regarding the forced mixing of Swedish nationals in heavily populated migrant suburbs of Swedish cities. The party suggests such a move is a necessary radical measure to alleviate integration concerns.
Redar was asked whether she would personally be moving to one of these suburbs affected by her party’s policy proposals, many of which are now plagued by parallel societies and rising gang violence.
She refused to answer the question, despite being one of the policy’s main proponents.
“We are serious about the fact that we intend to break segregation and use housing policy as an engine in that work,” she said when presenting the party’s new platform.
The proposals include preventing newly arrived migrants from settling in already struggling districts, encouraging demographic diversity in residential areas, and reshaping housing construction so that people from different socio-economic backgrounds live together.
Her party leader, Magdalena Andersson, has similarly argued that Sweden must avoid the formation of ethnic enclaves and promote mixed communities. “We do not wish to see Chinatown, Somalitown, or Little Italy in Sweden,” Andersson said previously. “We should be able to live mixed with the experiences we have.”
Sunday’s confrontation has drawn attention not only to the policy itself, but also to Redar’s own living arrangements. In a profile piece published by ABF in May last year, Redar is reported to live between Stockholm and Copenhagen, where her partner, Danish journalist Uffe Tang, is based.
Critics have pointed out that while the policy would affect Swedish families living in heavily immigrant suburbs such as Rinkeby or Rosengård, Redar herself has the ability to escape that reality and spend time outside Sweden whenever she pleases, a luxury not afforded to those who the policy will affect.
