Muharrem Demirok, a former city councillor of mixed heritage, faced significant challenges leading the Centre Party, a group caught between urban liberalism and rural conservatism. His leadership was criticized as being ineffective, and party members struggled with their alignment, feeling distanced from both the far-right Sweden Democrats and the Social Democrats. Demirok's resignation followed pressure from influential party districts, highlighting internal dissent regarding his leadership style and the party's political direction. The situation underscores broader issues within the party that go beyond just Demirok's tenure.
This is a party whose members largely view themselves as centre-right, at home in an alliance with the Moderates, but whose voters see themselves not, perhaps, as natural allies of the Social Democrats.
Critics within the party claim that the issue has always been his leadership, rather than his apparent wish to ally the party to Sweden's left-wing opposition.
Demirok did not succeed in solving the party's complex political positioning, which was too challenging even for a more conventional leader.
Leading it was, she said, a 'kamikaze-mission'.
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