Sverigedemokraterna - Revision history

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−	[[Image:Sweden_democrats.png‎ \|\|400px\|thumb\|right\|Sweden Democrats Logo, ~~screengrab from~~ https://sd.se/]]	+	[[Image:Sweden_democrats.png‎ \|\|400px\|thumb\|right\|Sweden Democrats Logo circa 2015, Source: https://sd.se/]] The [[Sverigedemokraterna]] or '''Sweden Democrats''' (SD) is a far right political party in Sweden.<ref>Ivar Ekman, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/world/europe/06iht-sweden.2129123.html Anti-immigration party gains toehold in Sweden - Europe - International Herald Tribune], nytimes.com. 6 July 2006.</ref>
−	The [[Sverigedemokraterna]] or '''Sweden Democrats''' (SD) ~~are~~ a far right political party in Sweden.<ref>Ivar Ekman, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/world/europe/06iht-sweden.2129123.html Anti-immigration party gains toehold in Sweden - Europe - International Herald Tribune], nytimes.com. 6 July 2006.</ref>

	They have been characterised as a party of the 'new far right', having taken pains to sanitise their message and their image, consigning jackboots and skinheads to the past and replacing them with sharp suits and ties, denying accusations of anti-Semitism and concentrating on opposing what they call 'Islamisation', immigration and the EU.<ref name="JWS"/>		They have been characterised as a party of the 'new far right', having taken pains to sanitise their message and their image, consigning jackboots and skinheads to the past and replacing them with sharp suits and ties, denying accusations of anti-Semitism and concentrating on opposing what they call 'Islamisation', immigration and the EU.<ref name="JWS"/>

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		+	[[Image:Sweden_democrats.png‎ \|\|400px\|thumb\|right\|Sweden Democrats Logo, screengrab from https://sd.se/]]
	The [[Sverigedemokraterna]] or '''Sweden Democrats''' (SD) are a far right political party in Sweden.<ref>Ivar Ekman, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/world/europe/06iht-sweden.2129123.html Anti-immigration party gains toehold in Sweden - Europe - International Herald Tribune], nytimes.com. 6 July 2006.</ref>		The [[Sverigedemokraterna]] or '''Sweden Democrats''' (SD) are a far right political party in Sweden.<ref>Ivar Ekman, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/world/europe/06iht-sweden.2129123.html Anti-immigration party gains toehold in Sweden - Europe - International Herald Tribune], nytimes.com. 6 July 2006.</ref>

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-By 2014, the SD were the third largest party in Sweden, and won 20 parliamentary seats in the May 2014 elections to the EUropean parliament.<ref name="JWS">Jake Wallis Simons, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10823028/EU-elections-2014-I-can-hear-the-boots-of-the-1930s-marching-through-Europe.html EU elections 2014: 'I can hear the boots of the 1930s marching through Europe'], Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2014</ref>
+In the 2006 Swedish elections the Sweden Democrats won 2.9% of the vote but no seats in parliament.<ref>Per Nyberg, [http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/20/sweden.election/ Swedish far-right leader: Success due to immigration backlash], CNN, 21 September 2012, accessed 17 February 2015</ref>
-In September 2014 Swedish elections, the party polled 13% and in December 2014, after using a power of veto to block the government's budget, was reportedly 'thriving on the sense of political crisis, with opinion polls suggesting it is set to increase its share of the vote to between 16% and 18%.'<ref name="Crouch">David Crouch, [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/17/swedish-far-right-leader-jews-swedes Swedish far-right leader: Jews must abandon religious identity to be Swedes], The Guardian, 17 December 2014, accessed 17 February 2015</ref>
+In the 2010 Swedish general election the party polled 5.7% and won parliamentary seats for the first time, for 20 of its politicians.<ref name="HnH">Hope Not Hate [http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/country/Sweden#id-93 Sverigedemokraterna], Counterjihad report: Sweden, accessed 16 February 2015</ref>
-Its hold on the balance of power in the Swedish parliament meant fresh elections were scheduled for March 2015 in the country. The party was disappointed when these plans that were subsequently cancelled after the centre-left and centre-right parties struck a deal, in a move interpreted as a deliberate alliance to minimise the influence of the SD.<ref>[http://www.thelocal.se/20141227/sweden-to-scrap-new-election-report Sweden cancels snap election in March 2015], The Local, 27 December 2014</ref>
+By 2014, the SD were the third largest party in Sweden. They won 2 parliamentary seats in the May 2014 elections to the European parliament<ref name="JWS">Jake Wallis Simons, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10823028/EU-elections-2014-I-can-hear-the-boots-of-the-1930s-marching-through-Europe.html EU elections 2014: 'I can hear the boots of the 1930s marching through Europe'], Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2014</ref> and polled 13% in the September 2014 Swedish general elections, winning 49 seats.<ref name="Crouch"/>
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-In the 2010 Swedish general election the SD polled 5.7% and won parliamentary seats for the first time.<ref name="HnH">Hope Not Hate [http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/country/Sweden#id-93 Sverigedemokraterna], Counterjihad report: Sweden, accessed 16 February 2015</ref>
+In the 2010 Swedish general election the SD polled 5.7% and won parliamentary seats for the first time, for 20 of its politicians.<ref name="HnH">Hope Not Hate [http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/country/Sweden#id-93 Sverigedemokraterna], Counterjihad report: Sweden, accessed 16 February 2015</ref>
 By 2014, the SD were the third largest party in Sweden, and won 20 parliamentary seats in the May 2014 elections to the EUropean parliament.<ref name="JWS">Jake Wallis Simons, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10823028/EU-elections-2014-I-can-hear-the-boots-of-the-1930s-marching-through-Europe.html EU elections 2014: 'I can hear the boots of the 1930s marching through Europe'], Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2014</ref>

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 ==History==
-The Sweden Democrats was founded in 1988 and emerged from groups like Keep Sweden Swedish (Bevara Sverige Svenskt).<ref name="Per">
+The Sweden Democrats was founded in 1988 and emerged from groups like Keep Sweden Swedish (Bevara Sverige Svenskt).<ref name="Per"/>
 According to author [[Jens Rydgren]], it has its roots in the extra-parliamentary far-right:

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	In January 2011, party leader [[Jimmie Åkesson]] claimed that immigrants were 'a little bit more criminal' than those born in Sweden.<ref name="Hard">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9372832.stm Jimmie Akesson: Swedish immigration is 'extreme'], BBC Hardtalk, 25 January 2011, accessed 17 February 2015</ref>		In January 2011, party leader [[Jimmie Åkesson]] claimed that immigrants were 'a little bit more criminal' than those born in Sweden.<ref name="Hard">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9372832.stm Jimmie Akesson: Swedish immigration is 'extreme'], BBC Hardtalk, 25 January 2011, accessed 17 February 2015</ref>
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		+	In December 2014 party secretary [[Björn Söder]] claimed in that Jews cannot be Swedes unless they abandon their Jewish identity. Despite trying to defend himself by claiming 'I have long had a very strong commitment to both the state of Israel and the Jewish people', his remarks were condemned as 'good old right wing anti-Semitism' by Swedish Jewish leaders.<ref name="Crouch"/>
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		+	===Others===
		+	*[[Anders Dahlberg]] - former politician, expelled for openly racist comments<ref name="JWS"/>
		+	*[[Daniel Assai]] - former high-ranking member turner whistleblower<ref name="JWS"/>
		+	*[[Erik Almqvist]]- former economic spokesman<ref name="break">[http://www.thelocal.se/20121115/44432 Ekeroth takes 'break' after new revelations], The Local, 15 November 2012, accessed 17 February 2015</ref>, left after a racism scandal and subsequently became media consultant to the party<ref>[http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=5394920 Sweden Democrat Almqvist leaves parliament, becomes Party's media consultant], Radio Sweden, 31 December 2012</ref>

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 *[[Kent Ekeroth]] - International Secretary
 *[[Ted Ekeroth]] - prominent activist
-*[[Björn Söder]] - party secretary; claimed in December 2014 that Jews cannot be Swedes unless they abandon their Jewish identity, remarks condemned as 'good old right wing anti-Semitism' by Swedish Jewish leaders. He defended himself by claiming 'I have long had a very strong commitment to both the state of Israel and the Jewish people'<ref name="Crouch">David Crouch, [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/17/swedish-far-right-leader-jews-swedes Swedish far-right leader: Jews must abandon religious identity to be Swedes], The Guardian, 17 December 2014, accessed 17 February 2015</ref>
+*[[Björn Söder]] - party secretary
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-According to author [[Jens Rydgren]], the Sweden Democrats have their roots in the extra-parliamentary far-right:
+The Sweden Democrats was founded in 1988 and emerged from groups like Keep Sweden Swedish (Bevara Sverige Svenskt).<ref name="Per">
 ::for the first half of the 1990s there was no clear distinction between the Sweden Democrats and different skinhead and Nazi organisations, and an overlap of membership was not uncommon.<ref>Jens Rydgren, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zJFaXe6I74MC&dq=Sweden+Democrats&source=gbs_navlinks_s From tax populism to ethnic nationalism: radical right-wing populism in Sweden], Berghahn Books, 2006, p.115.</ref>
-Journalist [[Jake Wallis Simons]] in the [[Daily Telegraph]] similarly reports that the party was founded in 1988 as a white supremacist outfit. He has written that members used to wear Nazi uniforms to meetings and that one prominent early activist, [[Gustaf Ekström]], had been a member of the Waffen SS and another - [[Anders Klarström]] - was part of the Nordic Reich Party.<ref name="JWS"/> He observes, however that:
+Journalist [[Jake Wallis Simons]] in the [[Daily Telegraph]] similarly reports that the party was established in as a white supremacist outfit. He has written that members used to wear Nazi uniforms to meetings and that one prominent early activist, [[Gustaf Ekström]], had been a member of the Waffen SS and another - [[Anders Klarström]] - was part of the Nordic Reich Party.<ref name="JWS"/> He observes, however that:
 ::in 1995, under the leadership of [[Mikael Jansson]] (formerly a member of the liberal Centre Party), the Sweden Democrats underwent a deliberate process of moderation. A 'uniform ban' was introduced, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was announced as the bedrock of its policies. When [[Jimmie Åkesson]], a young career politician, became leader in 2005, he intensified the programme of modernisation. In 2006, he changed the party’s logo from a [[National Front]]-style torch to a baby-blue daisy. Sweden Democrat policies have also been sanitised. Alongside a concern for 'preserving traditional culture', the party now campaigns on a platform of law and order and rights for the elderly. A preoccupation with Nordic ethnicity has been replaced by the concept of 'open Swedishness', which implies that immigrants are welcome so long as they renounce their other identities and take on 'Swedish ways'.<ref name="JWS"/>

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	In October 2009, a survey by Demoskop found that 83 per cent of Swedes regarded the party as racist, but 38 per cent thought it was acceptable for other parties to co-operate with them.<ref>[http://www.thelocal.se/22694/20091016/ Four in ten back far-right cooperation: poll], The Local, 16 October 2009.</ref>		In October 2009, a survey by Demoskop found that 83 per cent of Swedes regarded the party as racist, but 38 per cent thought it was acceptable for other parties to co-operate with them.<ref>[http://www.thelocal.se/22694/20091016/ Four in ten back far-right cooperation: poll], The Local, 16 October 2009.</ref>
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		+	In September 2010 longstanding SD politician [[Per Wahlberg]] wrote a blog claiming that black Africans are genetically programmed to rape children.<ref name="Per">Peter Vinthagen Simpson, [http://www.thelocal.se/20100903/28752 Africans have 'child rape gene': Sweden Democrat], 3 September 2010, accessed 17 February 2015</ref>
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		+	In January 2011, party leader [[Jimmie Åkesson]] claimed that immigrants were 'a little bit more criminal' than those born in Sweden.<ref name="Hard">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9372832.stm Jimmie Akesson: Swedish immigration is 'extreme'], BBC Hardtalk, 25 January 2011, accessed 17 February 2015</ref>

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