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Alternative for Sweden (AfS; Swedish: Alternativ för Sverige) are an unimaginatively named Swedish far-right[1][2][3] populist[4] political party. They received 20,290 votes (0.31%) in 2018, which was not enough to get into the Riksdag (Swedish parliament).[5] AfS also ran in the 2019 EU parliamentary election, where they basically got the same insignificant proportion of votes as in the general election.[6]
History[edit]
In 2017, the founders of what would become AfS gathered signatures to create the party at the Nordic alt-right conference Scandza Forum.[3] AfS was then founded in March 2018 by members of the former youth wing of the Sweden Democrats.[note 1]
AfS bet hard that they would get into the Riksdag in the 2018 general election, spending a lot of resources on their campaign. They ordered 10 million ballot papers for the 2018 election, which cost them around 600,000 Swedish kronor.[7]
Positions[edit]
| —AfS banner during a demonstration in Stockholm.[8] |
- Their immigration policy involves "active repatriation",[9] which in layman's terms means deporting all immigrants back to their home countries.
- They want to switch from progressive tax to a flat tax.
- While the Great Replacement conspiracy theory does not appear as part of the official party line, many high-ranking members have shown support for it.[8]
- AfS wants to remove "hets from folkgrupp" ("agitation against an ethnic group", which is similar to Volksverhetzung
in Germany) from the Criminal Code, since they believe that it is too open for "interpertation" and is used to suppress freedom of speech. This is probably because AfS have been accused of it several times.[10][11] - They want "gender studies" removed from academia while also expanding on academic freedom.[12]
See also[edit]
- Ingrid Carlqvist, influential in the party's founding
- Hans Jørgen Lysglimt Johansen, their ally across the border in Norway
- Sweden Democrats, where many party members came from during 2018.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ The Sweden Democratic Youth, which was excluded in 2015 due to internal conflict with the party leadership.
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/steve-bannon-reveals-plans-visit-sweden-learn-nations-far-right-party
- ↑ https://www.vk.se/2018-08-19/kravallstaket-pa-torget-i-umea (in Swedish)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Alternativ för Sverige (AFS). Expo, retrieved 7 October, 2019. (in Swedish)
- ↑ https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=78&artikel=7022531
- ↑ Röster - Val 2018. Valmyndigheten, retrieved 8 October, 2019. (in Swedish)
- ↑ https://data.val.se/val/ep2019/slutresultat/E/rike/index.html
- ↑ https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/gPnwOJ/tre-gripna-i-samband-med-afs-demonstration
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://expo.se/2019/03/det-stora-utbytet-sprids-av-b%C3%A5de-politiker-och-terrorister
- ↑ Återvandring[a w]. Alternative for Sweden. (in Swedish)
- ↑ https://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/polisanmalan-om-hets-mot-folkgrupp-i-visby/
- ↑ https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2018-09-03/afs-talare-anmald-for-hets-mot-folkgrupp
- ↑ Skola[a w]. Alternative for Sweden. (in Swedish)