33 Facts About Sweden Democrats

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Sweden Democrats is a nationalist and right-wing populist political party in Sweden.

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The Sweden Democrats reject the far-right label, saying that it no longer represents the party's political beliefs.

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The Sweden Democrats are a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament.

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4.

Today, the Sweden Democrats officially reject both fascism and Nazism on their platform.

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Sweden Democrats oppose current Swedish immigration and integration policies, instead supporting stronger restrictions on immigration.

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6.

The Sweden Democrats are critical of multiculturalism and support having a common national and cultural identity, which they believe improves social cohesion.

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The Sweden Democrats support keeping Sweden's nuclear power plants in order to mitigate climate change but argues that other countries should reduce their greenhouse gas emissions instead of Sweden, which the party believes is doing enough to reduce their emissions.

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The Sweden Democrats remained isolated in the Riksdag for a long time because the other parties staunchly maintained a cordon sanitaire with them.

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Sweden Democrats party was founded in 1988 as a direct successor to the Sweden Party, which in turn had been formed in 1986 by the merger of and a faction of the Swedish Progress Party.

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10.

The SD encountered controversy for some its early policy ideas before 1990, which included a proposal to repatriate most immigrants who came to Sweden Democrats from 1970, banning adoption of foreign born children and reinstating the death penalty.

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Sweden Democrats excused himself as having been under a lot of pressure and threats of violence at the time.

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12.

The Sweden Democrats initially defended Isovaara, but backed down when Expressen revealed that Isovaara had actually forgotten his backpack at a restaurant, and that the two men had helped him when he fell out of his wheelchair.

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Amid media coverage regarding the high immigration figures and the European migrant crisis, the Sweden Democrats soared in all opinion polls during the summer of 2015, even topping web-based polls from YouGov and Sentio in late summer, with a little over a quarter of the vote.

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14.

On 2 July 2018 the two Sweden Democrats MEPs left the EFDD group and moved to the European Conservatives and Reformists group.

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15.

An SVT analysis of the results found that at least 22 seats in 17 city councils would be empty as the Sweden Democrats won more seats than the number of candidates it had.

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16.

In October 2018, the Sweden Democrats went into a governing coalitions with the Moderate Party and the Christian Democrats for the first time in Staffanstorp Municipality, Solvesborg Municipality, Herrljunga Municipality and Bromolla Municipality.

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17.

Preliminary results indicated that the Sweden Democrats had seen their strongest result to date and had overtaken the Moderates to become the second largest party with 20.

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Sweden Democrats believe that current Swedish immigration and integration policies have been a national failure.

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19.

SD supports Sweden Democrats eventually accepting refugees exclusively through the UNHCR resettlement programme in accordance with a quota based on each municipality's capacity.

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20.

In 2017, members of the Sweden Democrats' leadership defended comments made by then US President Donald Trump in response to Trump's assertion that Sweden's migration and asylum policies had led to a rise of terrorism and crime in Sweden.

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Sweden Democrats are supportive of Israel and favors recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital and proposes moving the Swedish embassy there, though Israel has stated it does not have and it does not wish to have any contact with the party "due its roots in Nazism".

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22.

In 2022 an analysis of votes relating to Russia in the European Parliament found that the Sweden Democrats were the 10th most critical party in the parliament having voted against Russian interests 93 percent of the time.

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23.

Sweden Democrats have described themselves as supporters of the Swedish welfare state, labour rights and the public sector, but argue that welfare should be restricted to Swedish citizens and permanent residents.

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Sweden Democrats considers children raised in a traditional nuclear family as the preferred option for the child's development.

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The party advocates keeping nuclear power plants as a prominent energy source in Sweden Democrats, believing it to be an efficient way to mitigate climate change.

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Sweden Democrats are critical of the special rights given to the indigenous Sami people of northern Sweden.

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However, as part of the moderation process, the Sweden Democrats have subsequently sought to distance themselves from far-right parties in Europe, including turning down an invitation to join a grouping in the European parliament with the National Front in 2014 and choosing to ally themselves with more moderate parties during the 2014 and 2019 European elections.

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Sweden Democrats have complained about difficulties buying advertising space due to the media banning the party from advertising and have accused media outlets of trying to censor or limit the party's campaign messages during elections which has been criticised by free speech organisations.

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29.

The Sweden Democrats had a hate speech charge filed against them due to the posted caricature.

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30.

Sweden Democrats originally planned to publish a set of cartoons in their newspaper SD-Kuriren.

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31.

Shutdown of the Sweden Democrats' websites was reported to the Committee on the Constitution by the Liberal People's Party leader Lars Leijonborg.

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32.

Sweden Democrats resigned from parliament on the same day he was elected, 29 September 2014.

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33.

Sweden Democrats came under fire in 2015 for changing their position on profits made by private welfare companies.

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