Eskil Erlandsson was the spokesperson – despite Lööf's resignation requirements

"Do not dry small hydro plants," Smålandsposten said on Wednesday.

"The government must act with vigor, if anything, to save independent authority and its own credibility," wrote energy politician Rickard Nordin and the first vice chairman of the committee. 39, EU, Eskil Erlandsson.

A day later, Expressen revealed that Eskil Erlandsson had stopped in front of several women deputies of Parliament – and he announced his resignation.

In yesterday's SVT News, party leader Annie Lööf said that the party leadership "acted immediately" and that she had been trying since November to persuade Eskil Erlandsson to step down as MP.

"I think it's a pity that he did not listen and chose to resign in the fall," she said.

Eskil Erlandsson wrote debate articles and criticized the government

But the Expressen survey shows that Eskil Erlandsson participated in the party's activities and acted as a spokesperson until the start.

Just last Tuesday, two days before departure, the Center Party sent out a statement saying that Eskil Erlandsson was still the first vice-president of the Riksdag European Committee.

As recently as Saturday, March 2, Eskil Erlandsson participated in a debate organized by the Jägarnas riksförbund at Alvestas Folkets. In this document, he argued in particular for "collective management of the hoof".

In an article published on February 28 on the Europa Portal news portal, Eskil Erlandsson blamed the government for failing to consult the EU Committee on the new EU directive on the law. d & # 39; author.

"For just over an hour, he gave us an interesting insight into the work of the EU committee aimed at explaining the conditions of the small business," the local government later wrote to Södermanlands Nyheter.

On 8 February, the newspaper Växjöbladet / Kronobergaren published a column written by Eskil Erlandsson, in which he defended the cooperation with the government of S-MP.

"The Center Party has taken responsibility for Sweden to have a functioning government by tolerating Stefan Löfven as a government educator. In this way, we prevented the extremes SD and V from influencing the political direction. In this way, through the agreement, we can also affect most of the liberal reform policy that Sweden needs, "Erlandsson said.

Eskil Erlandsson was part of the president's delegation

On February 5 and 7, Eskil Erlandsson joined the delegation of President Andreas Norlén during a trip to Brussels. The delegation then visited the Belgian Parliament, the NATO Headquarters and the Swedish Commissioner to the EU, Cecilia Malmström.

On January 30, Eskil Erlandsson promised in an article of debate in Smålandsposten, in collaboration with the government:

"We should be a liberal nail in the eye of S."

Expressen requested an interview with Annie Lööf for new information about Eskil Erlandsson, but her press officer, Hannes Hervieu, writes in a text message:

"Unfortunately, there is no possibility today, but we are referring to the interview she made with SVT yesterday. For additional questions, we refer to the group leader, Anders W Jonsson. "

Center Party group leader, Anders W Jonsson, writes to Expressen that "Erlandsson" was still an MP on Tuesday and of course had the opportunity to write debate articles in local media. .

When Expressen asks why Eskil Erlandsson was not expelled from the party last November, while he was refusing to leave his seat in Parliament, the answer – via SMS:

"Because my goal was that he quit his parliamentary term."

Anders W Jonsson also writes:

"We have no opportunity to compel a member of Parliament to resign, which means that Eskil Erlandsson has worked as a deputy until he agrees to resign.

We tried for several months to make him resign as a Member of Parliament, and therefore also as Vice Chairman of the EU Committee, what he finally did. However, there is no formal possibility for a party to coerce a member of Parliament, or a parliamentary mandate, or a position on a commission.

Our goal was to leave as a member of Parliament, not least because the exposed women were in the same workplace. "

Expressen sought out former minister Eskil Erlandsson, but until then without result.