The Kids Are All Right: Swedish Youth Swing Right as Populists Make Gains at Ballot Box
Students in schools across Sweden are increasingly supporting right-wing parties according to the results of this year’s school elections.
Students in schools across Sweden are increasingly supporting right-wing parties according to the results of this year’s school elections.
A poll released this week has revealed that just over half of Swedes would vote for a new centre-right alliance involving conservatives and populists as Swedish prime minister Stefan Löfven barely resumes power.
Academic Sameh Egyptson has claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups have been systematically infiltrating Sweden’s political system since the 1980s.
Sweden’s Social Democrats are taking action over Islamic influence in the party’s youth wing after it emerged that delegates from some of the nation’s migrant-dominated no-go zones have less-than-progressive views on LGBT policy.
The populist Sweden Democrats won so many votes in the country’s recent elections that they won more seats in local governments than they had candidates to fill them.
Ahead of the informal summit in Salzburg, Stefan Löfven said he will argue for mandatory asylum seeker quotas, reportedly showing “anger” at current EU Presidency chair Austria’s declaring the policy dead.
The Swedish election results were one of the worst ever performances for the Social Democrats. But the result is just one example of the massive decline for social democracy across Europe over the past decade.
After the first time a Swedish election has been monitored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), observers have expressed “shock” at the nation’s “undemocratic” system. Danish delegate Michael Aastrup Jensen, who has previously monitored elections in
A Swedish Social Democrat candidate has been slammed by the Moderate Party and the populist Sweden Democrats for posting lies about their policies to migrants in Arabic-language social media posts.