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Pro-Swedish Political Party Now Sweden’s Most Popular
In a historic shift, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokrater, SD) has become its nation’s most popular party just nine years after first winning seats in Parliament, a new poll finds. According Swedish polling company Demoskop, SD has an almost two- percentage-point advantage over the Social Democrats, which has dominated the Nordic country’s politics since the 1930s.
As the Telegraph reported November 15:
According to a poll published on Friday in the Aftonbladet newspaper, the populist party now has the support of 24 percent of voters, compared to just 22.2 percent for the Social Democrats, the lead party in the country’s current coalition government.
“I’m not surprised. I’ve long argued we would be the biggest party sooner or later,” party leader Jimmie Åkesson told the Aftonbladet newspaper.
“We’ve been talking constructively over gang criminality, escalating insecurity, and a migration policy that doesn’t work for so many years.”
With native Swedes long having a below-replacement-level fertility rate (<2.1 children per woman), their country’s population has swelled from a bit more than eight million in 1970 to more than 10 million today almost entirely due to (im)migration. The result is that once-homogeneous Sweden’s foreign-born are now almost two million strong, constituting 18.5 percent of the population.
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