Jimmie Akesson, leader of the right-wing Sweden Democrats party
Posted on 09/18/2010 10:21:10 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Swedes go to the polls on Sunday in an election which is likely to be a breakthrough for a far-Right party that had always seemed unelectable.
With his clean-cut looks, geeky spectacles, and sensible haircut, 31-year-old Jimmie Åkesson looks more like an accountant than a political extremist.
Jimmie Akesson, leader of the right-wing Sweden Democrats party
Yet in the past few weeks Mr Åkesson, leader of the far-Right Sweden Democrat party, has blamed immigrants for rape - especially Africans and Arabs.
His party has played crude television advertisements accusing burqa-clad Muslim women of taking benefits from white Swedish pensioners. And last year he called Islam the biggest threat to Sweden since the Second World War.
To the horror of his compatriots in one of Europe's most liberal and tolerant nations, blaming foreigners has worked electoral magic.
When Swedes vote on Sunday Mr Åkesson's anti-immigrant party will almost certainly win its first seats at a general election - and has even been predicted to come third with 7.5 per cent of the vote, according to one poll.
That would be enough to give them 28 seats out of a total of 349 in the Riksdag, Stockholm's parliament, ahead of five more established parties, and hold the balance of power.
It is the sort of far Right success that has been seen several times across Europe this year, and a prospect has struck fear in the hearts of Sweden's usually moderate voters who never thought they would see extremists get anywhere near power.
Mainstream politicians, deeply troubled by the party's success, have been forced to promise that they wouldn't under any circumstances go into coalition with the Sweden Democrats.
Swedes are bracing themselves for a difficult time of minority government, when their economic problems demand decisive leadership
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Telling the unpleasant truth makes you an “extremist”.
Don’t know anything about this guy, but the article is certainly a biased hit piece.
Ping.
Looks like common sense is breaking out all over.
Far Right...
Far Leftist... (when’s the last time we say this in a headline)
Hmmm, I’m sure glad the world’s media isn’t biased.
Far Right...
Far Leftist... (when’s the last time we say this in a headline)
Hmmm, I’m sure glad the world’s media isn’t biased.
Far Right...
Far Leftist... (when’s the last time we saW this in a headline)
Hmmm, I’m sure glad the world’s media isn’t biased.
You can say that again! :-)
Far Right...
Far Leftist... (when’s the last time we saw this in a headline)
Hmmm, I’m sure glad the world’s media isn’t biased.
(LOL) ;^)
Take care.
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He looks like a reject from Devo, circa the New Traditionalists album, for goodness sakes plop a flowerpot on his head and call it a day. He's all but eating that envelope, and isn't exactly the picture of reassurance.
Oh well, it's been honed to a fine art, the embarassing candid shot. We've got our share of hilarious ones on the left, for instance virtually any photo of the permanently wild-eyed Cynthia McKinney.
Here’s hoping the “far-right” does much better than 7.5%.
Ping to the Swedish Ping List.
I guess but in these countries they don’t necessarily mean what we do with such terms. I can never keep these foriegn parties straight and who’s really the “conservative” party and who isn’t and whether they even have a real conservative party as we define it.
Let me get this straight...
His fellow Swedes are shocked by his statements, but they agree with him?
Interesting photo they chose to run. I guess every picture of him has him licking an envelope, so that’s the one they have to use?
Mark Steyn time! He’s made an impact, as others like Geert Wilders.....With the internet, they can not hide all the truth. Those hordes of muslims blocking the streets in Paris, can not be hidden by the media anymore.
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Appalling, especially considering that the far left is running most of the Western world.
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