Sweden Democrats
Sverigedemokraterna ( shortly SD, German: The Sweden Democrats ) are a right-wing populist party founded in 1988 in Sweden. Party leader Jimmie Åkesson since 2005. His predecessor from 1995 to 2005 was Mikael Jansson. After the 2010 election, the Sweden Democrats are first represented in the Swedish Parliament.
- 3.1 Reichstag and local elections 2006
- 3.2 Reichstag Election 2010
History
The roots of the party are the racist and right-wing extremist movement Bevara Sverige Svenskt (English as: " Sweden should remain swedish " ) located in 1986 with the Framstegspartiet (Eng. " Progress Party " ) to Sverigepartiet (Eng. " Sweden Party") merged. At their head was first states Stefan Herrmann, the former chairman of Framstegspartiet, but was ruled out in October 1987 from the party. Then called Herrmann and his followers again Framstegspartiet to life, while also re- founded in 1988 as the rest of the Sverigepartiet Sverigedemokraterna.
In the fall of 2010, the Sweden Democrats complained about 5,000 members of its own. There are thirteen regional associations as well as about 200 local or municipal associations. The Sweden Democrats have a youth organization called Sverigedemokratisk Ungdom (SDU ) (English Sweden Democratic Youth ), which has been founded in 1998. There's a party newspaper called SD - Kuriren ( SD courier ) with a circulation of about 28,000 copies.
The Sweden Democrats have complained several times about not being able to do enough advertising, as several newspapers in Sweden, so before the general election of 2010, ad requests of the party have rejected. Meanwhile, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet have their boycott lifted, while the tabloid Expressen sustains him.
The party colors are the colors of the flag of Sweden: blue and yellow.
Policy status
Political content
Main themes of the party are the integration, immigration, economic and family policy.
The Sverigedemokraterna want to cut taxes and limit the influence of politics on the economy and strengthen small and medium-sized companies. Through a more rigid asylum and immigration policy it wants to save the "cost devouring the multicultural social experiment ". She argues that tax cuts were to be possible without at the same time have to cut benefits. In the company policy, the traditional family is preferably in the form of man, woman and children. In addition, they are committed to the abolition of gay marriage and against the adoption rights for homosexual couples.
The current Immigration and integration policy is regarded as a failure. The party describes itself as the only party that dare to say so openly. The immigration have caused social and economic problems that applies to solve it: " A homogeneous society has better conditions to take a peaceful and democratic development as a heterogeneous. " Therefore, the Sweden Democrats advocate a strict limitation of immigration and the expulsion of larger groups of foreigners. It relies on the UNHCR, UNHCR, therefore, the ideal end of an asylum procedure is to return to the home country.
In foreign policy, the Sweden Democrats ' traditional Swedish values "and the Swedish culture through immigration, Islamization, globalization and so-called cultural imperialism U.S. feel threatened. In addition, the Sweden Democrats reject supranational entities such as the European Union and advocate instead the cooperation between countries, especially between the Nordic countries. The Sverigedemokraterna also reject eventual EU membership for Turkey.
Media and Political Science
While the party "national" represents himself as and indicating reject all forms of racism, Swedish media and political scientists consider them as foreign and immigration hostile.
Connections to other groups
Members of the Sweden Democrats are involved in the European party European Alliance for Freedom (EAF ), which also includes representatives of the Austrian Freedom Party and the United Kingdom Independence Party are involved.
According to media reports, the party has been advised by a person named Alan Lake, considered one of the strategists of the Islamophobic English Defence League. This in turn has links with far-right British National Party.
Voters and Image
The Sweden Democrats found mainly in southern Sweden, particularly in the province of Skåne, encouragement, and reach there in some municipalities partially double-digit results. They speak to the young and male voters. Already under the party leader Mikael Jansson the party tried in the late 1990s to solve the extreme right milieu and to give themselves seriously and civil. Åkesson led, inter alia, this strategy in the 2006 election campaign continued and advised the party from the model of the Austrian Freedom Party.
Election results
The Sweden Democrats are currently the most successful right-wing populist party in Sweden.
In the local elections in 1994 the Swedish Democrats mandates were reached in three local councils in 2002 in 30 municipalities. For the election of the Swedish Parliament in 2002 they were 1.4% of the vote, about four times as much as in the elections before that.
Reichstag and local elections 2006
The Sweden Democrats got in the Swedish Parliament election in 2006 to 2.93 percent of the vote and missed the four- percent threshold for representation in the Swedish parliament. In the southern Swedish provinces of Skåne County and Blekinge län, as well as in some parts of the other Swedish provinces, the party was over four percent.
In the municipal elections in the municipality of Landskrona, the party achieved its best result with 22.26 percent. At the national level, the party won 10.30% in Bjuv with the best result. Overall, the party won 286 seats in 145 municipal Swedish municipalities.
Reichstag election 2010
In the general election on 19 September 2010, the Sweden Democrats reached 5.7 percent of the vote. For you to send 20 deputies to the Reichstag. 85 percent of its members are men.