The Democratic Party of Sweden, which claims to be nationalist and anti -System, could be found in the majority if the right wins the legislative elections, Sunday September 11.
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Well clever one who dares to predict the outcome of the legislative elections, Sunday September 11, in Sweden. For weeks, all polls have been in the same direction: the results have been very tight, to the point that a reissue of the 2018 elections is already looming. The outgoing Prime Minister was then took four months, the social democrat Stefan Löfven, to obtain the confidence of the deputies.
In the meantime, a party is already largely winning this unprecedented campaign. Founded by former fascists, in 1988, the Democratic Party of Sweden (SD) was credited with a second position, behind the Social Democrats, with more than 20 % of the voting intentions (against 17.5 % in 2018) . But the far -right formation, led by Jimmie Akesson, is found at the gates of power, dedicated by the Liberal Conservative right, ready to make it its extra force in Parliament to ensure its return to government, after eight years in the ‘Opposition.
Four years ago, however, the SDs were still considered plague. Questioned, in June 2018, on a possible rapprochement with the far-right party, the owner of Christians Democrats, EBBA Busch Thor, had replied that it did not see such a “development to occur” in the following twenty years. In a revealing slip, the same EBBA Busch Thor described, in early September, the SDs of “Blue Party”: a qualifier reserved for the traditional right.
“It is hardly if they dare the contradict “
Has Jimmie Akesson’s party has operated a moult in recent years, which would have suddenly made it frequentable? Professor at the University of Stockholm, the sociologist Jens Rydgren believes that “it is rather the other parties that have changed and approached the positions of the Democrats of Sweden”. “They not only imitate the rhetoric of SDs, but also resume their definitions of the problems and the solutions they offer,” abounds researcher Ann-Cathrine Jungar, specialist in the far right, at the University of Södertörn.
“This even concerns the Social Democrats, who have a much more restrictive migration policy than before”, remarks Mr. Rydgren. A shift which was accompanied by a prudent retained with regard to the Democrats of Sweden, on the part of the right -wing parties, observes the sociologist: “Regardless of the scandals, they remain silent and no longer emit criticism. It is barely if they dare to contradict them. “
For his part, Jimmie Akesson, 43 years old, at the head of the party since 2005, does not spare his efforts to demonstrate that his training has definitively broken with its roots in the neonazi movement. The party even hired a historian to write a white paper on its history, a way of showing that he has nothing to hide.
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