Sweden turns to the right: Meeting a new generation of political activists • FRANCE 24 English

For the first time in #Sweden's political history, the right-wing coalition struck a cooperation agreement with the far-right Sweden Democrats in October 2022 in order to secure a slim parliamentary majority. This allowed Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party, to be elected prime minister by a narrow margin. The Sweden Democrats are now trying to show a less radical face in order to broaden their electorate and succeed in getting closer to power - they currently have no ministers in the cabinet. FRANCE 24's Jack Colmer Gale and Mohamed Farhat went to Stockholm and Uppsala to meet some of the young people involved in Sweden's far-right politics.
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[@mattanderson6672]

Good for Sweden

[@lorrainelorrained8988]

The Swedes have finally OPENED their eyes! Think with your brain and not with your heart! You have to be REALISTIC! Cannot please everybody!

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Why did the middle class Swedes avoid sending their kids to schools with immigrants? Because they didn't want their children to learn math in 25 different languages!

[@shazzshank6393]

@@PoisonelleMisty4311 No.. the real reason is because they were and are afraid of their kids getting killed by immigrants.. but please be specific ! what migrants ;) ...

[@chrisa5631]

Too far left, the pendulum swings to the right. Welcome to democracy

[@darkwolf4434]

Sweden was already pretty right wing.

[@Cyrano1987]

@@darkwolf4434 almost every country has

[@niccoarcadia4179]

Exactly!

[@jerrymiller9039]

Good for the Swedes

[@the.trollgubbe2642]

Too bad .... a little bit late to wake up now....Should never have let all these millions from totally different cultures in ..... in the first place ....

[@JewishSheep]

We need immigrants in Sweden 🇸🇪 since Swedish people doesn’t know how to take care of themselves.

[@darkwolf4434]

Arw you kidding? Sweden is entirely dependant on people from other countries. Just look at the mining industry which is Sweden's biggest industry. You'll find alot of immigrants working there because we don't have enough swedes to take care of it. The right wing goverment has called for a higher wage requirements on workforce immigration which will probably ruin alot. Since they want educated engineers to the north. However that's not what's lacking the most. We need lower educated people aswell to do the hard work.

[@the.trollgubbe2642]

@@darkwolf4434 False, and they can barely eve do to most simple tasks, and they are to lazy to do the most simple things like pick berries, and plant trees, They come in, can barely read and write in their own languages. All they are doing is living on welfare, have babies. Then they complain about Swedes, they rob Swedes, attach Swedish women.

[@JewishSheep]

@@darkwolf4434 Japan solved it. 🇯🇵

[@darkwolf4434]

@@JewishSheep Japan is falling apart. 1/3 of theif population consists of old people.

[@TheWorldisSoDivided]

It’s the only way.

[@Spock_Rogers]

The right wing has destroyed the working class here in the US.

[@JewishSheep]

@@Spock_RogersThe right wing? The democrats?

[@JewishSheep]

In Sweden 🇸🇪 it’s different. The right wing are not democrats in Sweden even if their name is Sweden Democrats. They are anti taxes. I know the democrats in USA are right wing and destroyed the economy now when they got Joe Biden, but in Sweden 🇸🇪 it’s not that classic centre-right / right wing, in Sweden it’s Far right which is much better quality.

[@Spock_Rogers]

Billionaire backed propaganda.

[@khadijaboyd6200]

Been going on for the past 30 years at least.

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

The middle-class in Sweden is so selective about their children's schools, they'd probably invest in a private fjord if they could.

[@darrylbaber6329]

Right wing socialist are still socialist

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Rumor has it, if you listen closely in rich neighborhoods in Sweden, you can hear the faint sound of Wagner playing on repeat from their posh mansions.

[@darrylbaber6329]

@@PoisonelleMisty4311 not knowing how good or bad, life is there, I try not to judge what people do or think, I do hope that one day we will all see a free world and not be under the illusion that some group of people are better than others. That we won’t have people passing laws or indict that rob people of wealth and liberty.

[@aurockscastillo5460]

Moral superpower??? Lol.

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

I heard the middle-class in Sweden doesn't want their children in schools with many immigrants because they're worried their kids will start wearing IKEA furniture to class.

[@0-Templar-0]

*Skyrim belongs to the Nords!*

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Why did the middle-class Swedish parents not want their kids in a school with many immigrants? They were worried their children would learn how to pronounce "skål" instead of "cheers."

[@starvictory7079]

Except the opposition leads the polls and would easily win if there is an election.

[@inte1406]

Men det är flera år ifrån

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

I guess the only immigrants these elitist snobs are comfortable with are the ones who can cook a mean Swedish meatball.

[@feelin_fine]

Sad to see fear mongering, stereotyping, and privatizing getting airtime when working to figure out how to build a cultural identity that prizes history, diversity, AND social welfare is possible.

[@Xamufam]

Well the state is built on cultural homogeneity to much diversity and it breaks. The school system for example was built to create an identity for the country to keep the population from rebelling

[@darkwolf4434]

I am very interested in my country's history but I don't see how that's going to effect me culturally and see no reason why it should effect me culturally.

[@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356]

cry, leftard

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

The only thing these so-called "middle class" Swedes are secretly fascist about is their ability to slyly avoid paying taxes on their luxury yachts.

[@miskbalder]

It is wrong that it is mainly from the social democrats moving to Sweden democrats.. it is mainly voters from Moderats and that is why the surpassed the Moderats in the last election.. Moderats had before that been one of the two biggest parties for over 40 years The Sweden democrats used to run around in the bigger cities shouting "Sieg Heil" until around 2000.. then overnight they had fine suits and ties and even changed their party logo to a light blue flower, it used to be a viking with a nazi slogan One Sweden democrat politician even accidentally said that they need to "act cool" until they become Swedens biggest party and that is when the war starts It is pretty obvious that there is some other, probably foreign power who wanted to cause disarray in Sweden and pushed money and psychological expertise to help the Sweden democrats grow I blame the swedish peoples complacency in their own intelligence, pride goes before fall

[@nona2909]

Och demokraterna i USA stred emot republikanernas tanke för att frigöra slavarna. Partier förändras kära vän. Vad de står för förändras. Just nu är SD i vårt Sveriges bästa.

[@jamesstrom6991]

Then address the underlying issue : selling out native Swedes.

[@nafet]

Shame

[@jerrymiller9039]

On not doing it sooner

[@user-qr3vz5zx3i]

Hm, that's very sad. Sweden has historically tried to stay out of political and military conflict. Not like they were ever a respected nation anyway.

[@Thomaat98]

You must have been around for hundreds of years to have such knowledge 😂

[@kioly_ah]

Finland already give up armed neutrality. next is sweden. that what US/NATO want to see.

[@jerrymiller9039]

Then they should have stayed out of politics of the left.

[@user-qr3vz5zx3i]

If the US and NATO want to turn the entire world into a 4th Reich, then let them. It's clearly what their greedy people want.

[@johnohara197]

What Country are you from, may one ask? Sweden is a very respected nation!