Photo: Jessica Gow/TTThe Local · 17 Oct 2016, 12:28Published: 17 Oct 2016 12:28 GMT+02:00The Sweden Democrat’s migration policy spokeswoman Paula Bieler has gone on sick leave for exhaustion. Bieler, one of the nationalist party’s highest profile members of parliament, said she expects to be off work for the foreseeable future. Writing on Facebook, she said she had tried to scale back her activities “but unfortunately my well-being continued to go downwards”. Two years ago Sweden Democrat party leader Jimmie Åkesson sparked a major surprise when he too announced he was taking a break from politics because of exhaustion. Mattias Karlsson stood in as party leader for five months before Åkesson returned to the fray at the end of March 2015.

Source: The Local October 17, 2016 10:30 UTC