Pictures from the kick-off, as it is called in a chat that the newspaper took part in, show how the guests are toasting on the bridge and drinking boxed wine on the estate’s veranda, next to the terrace where Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson (M) presented the conditions for the autumn budget at a press conference in August this year.
Harpsund testamenterades 1952 by the cork and linoleum manufacturer Carl August Wicander to the Swedish state. The condition was that it would be the prime minister’s recreational and official residence. The following year, the gift was accepted through a Riksdag decision, with the addition that Harpsund could also be used by the government, Riksdag, organizations and associations for meetings and conferences.
Olle Lundin, professor of administrative law, is doubtful whether the donor thought that Harpsund could also be used for private parties where the Prime Minister’s children invited others.
– It is obvious that the donor wanted it to be addressed to the prime minister and government, that you should have some place to be for representation and recreation. But this is some kind of student party, in a completely private nature. It was probably not what he had planned and wanted to achieve either, says Olle Lundin to Aftonbladet.
The Prime Minister’s deputy press officerHanna Strömberg, writes on X that the chief lawyers at the Government Offices have made it clear that nothing wrong was done when the prime minister’s daughter invited friends to Harpsund on a single occasion.
“Shame on you!” she writes, with the address Aftonbladet. The Government Office’s press service writes, in a comment to the newspaper:
“There are no guidelines that regulate how the prime minister and his family can use Harpsund”.
The press secretary also says that Aftonbladet searched for Kristersson’s daughter and hunted down her friends.
Aftonbladet’s dig manager Jonathan Jeppson has hit back and said they were neither looking for the prime minister’s daughter nor chasing her friends.
