how swedes react when their politicians post instagram pictures containing their genitals

What happens when a swedish politician accidentally shows his penis on Instagram?

The story

The 24 July Lars Ohly, Swedish MP on vacation, posted a quite private picture on Instagram

The picture showed his calf with a tattoo of Liverpool FC's liver bird

But, supposedly by accident, the picture also included his penis

Here is the actual picture:

The picture was online for 11 minutes before the media noticed his faux pas

Lars Ohly received a phone call, consequently removed the picture, and joked about the whole thing on twitter

By that time the picture had spread on the Internet

Lars joking ”My wife is laughing at the penis pic. ’Onwards I’ll be previewing all pics you post on instagram’”

The picture hit the news

Some made gentleman fun of him on twitter

"Congratulations. Finally, after all these years you've made this genuine public breakthrough."

He mostly received supportive tweets from regular swedes on twitter

And in midst of swedish summer heat and holiday that seemed to be the end of the matter

But, how did the Swedish people actually react to his revealing blunder?

The statistics

65 % of Swedes are actually indifferent to the picture!

And in the context of free expression, 38 % think it was a good thing

Whereas 35 % simply don’t care

78 % have an unchanged confidence in his role as a MP

53 % think that the picture does not reflect on his competence as a MP

Conclusions

Conclusions

Big majority of Swedish population are forgiving and understanding in this case

Many Swedes simply didn’t care

Lars Ohly got away with his faux pas

However, around a quarter of the Swedes did not look kindly on the mistake

So, his reputation did get a blow

Luckily for him though, only half of the Swedes had read about him publishing the picture, so any damage should be halved

Conclusions

How would the people in your country react to such a revealing picture?

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Mistakes are bound to increase as politicians make more use of social media

Boundries of what is accepted behaveour will probably be crossed

Keep updated about what the population thinks with PlantaQuestion

The questions about the reactions to Lars Ohly’s picture were asked through the online research service PlantaQuestion (www.plantaquestion.co.uk)

1035 Swedes responded to the qusetions (out of 2066 asked). Their distribution reflects the Swedish population aged 18-70 YO in terms of age, gender and region.

About the statistics

The questions were asked during the period 2013-07-25 to 2013-07-31, just a few days after the picture had been posted on Instagram. The questions were distributed through 80 of Swedens online survey panels, comprising around 500 000 active members.

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