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'''Jimmie Åkesson''' has been described as an 'alleged fascist' and has been leader of the far-right [[Sweden Democrats]] party since 2005.<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> | '''Jimmie Åkesson''' has been described as an 'alleged fascist' and has been leader of the far-right [[Sweden Democrats]] party since 2005.<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> | ||
| − | According to journalist Jake Wallis Simons in the [[Daily Telegraph]], Åkesson maintains a 'carefully crafted image of professionalism' and has a 'farmer's boy' accent which reportedly helps him appeal to anti-elite feeling among some Swedish voters.<ref name="JWS"/> | + | According to journalist Jake Wallis Simons in the [[Daily Telegraph]], Åkesson maintains a 'carefully crafted image of professionalism' and has a 'farmer's boy' accent which reportedly helps him appeal to anti-elite feeling among some Swedish voters. He is said to have intensified the party's modernisation programme when he became leader (for instance changing the logo to a flower) in an an attempt to sanitise its far-right politics.<ref name="JWS"/> |
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Revision as of 21:01, 16 February 2015
Jimmie Åkesson has been described as an 'alleged fascist' and has been leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats party since 2005.[1]
According to journalist Jake Wallis Simons in the Daily Telegraph, Åkesson maintains a 'carefully crafted image of professionalism' and has a 'farmer's boy' accent which reportedly helps him appeal to anti-elite feeling among some Swedish voters. He is said to have intensified the party's modernisation programme when he became leader (for instance changing the logo to a flower) in an an attempt to sanitise its far-right politics.[1]
Contact
- Twitter: @jimmieakesson
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jake Wallis Simons, EU elections 2014: 'I can hear the boots of the 1930s marching through Europe', Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2014
