A Swedish district administrative court has ruled that Susanne Linde, a senior founding member of the Feminist Initiative (FI) who was active in starting the political party while on state-funded sick leave, had done nothing wrong.The Local, reports that Linde was receiving sick benefits corresponding to 75 percent of her full-time salary when she became involved in starting FI. Her benefits were reduced to correspond with 50 percent of a full-time salary after it was revealed that she was working with the party.
Linde argued that the social insurance office knew she was politically involved and had approved her work as part of her rehabilitation program.
Linde, a former member of the Liberal People's party is no longer a member of the FI board. She gave as her principal reason the treatment she had received from another committee member Tiina Rosenberg, who, among other claims, had criticised her for being a heterosexual, and calling her a "middle class hag."
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