A Swedish politician has been sacked after he accidentally broadcast footage of himself calling a female minister a “whore”.
Delmon Haffo represents the centre-right Moderate party in Salem, south west of Stockholm, and also promotes himself as a digital communicator for the party.
He appeared to be trying out a new video camera with colleagues when the comments were made about Social Service Minister Annika Strandhäll.
Unbeknown to Mr Haffo, the camera was streaming a live broadcast to the party’s YouTube channel.
Ms Strandhäll had earlier made joke comments on social media about how the right to vote should be withdrawn from men following the election of Donald Trump.
In the video, Mr Haffo said into the camera: "Annika Strandhäll, it was not okay to joke about men's right to vote. Go to hell, you whore."
Mr Haffo also made similar derogatory comments about a press spokesman at the Social Ministry, Victor Harju.
"It is completely unacceptable," said Moderate paerty leader Anna Kinberg Batra, to the Dagens Nyheter newspaper. “It is not funny. This sort of thing should not happen."
She continued: "Actually, it's quite simple. You may criticise your opponents for politics that's wrong or when ministers do the wrong thing, but you must never make foul comments to other people or cross the line – regardless of the party who does it.
"There's too much of that at the moment, I think."
On her Facebook page, Ms Strandhäll also condemned the comments, saying politicians were role models and needed to set an example.
