‘Swedish society has changed’: The rise of the far-right Sweden Democrats
By France24
25 September 2022 |
2:44 pm
Earlier this month, Sweden experienced a political earthquake when the Sweden Democrats (SD), a party with neo-Nazi roots, became the country's second-largest party in parliament. For the first time, the far right was running not as an outsider, but as part of the traditional right-wing coalition.
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