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The chickens that enter by those that leave. in the eyes of vox, it seems that the loss of weight of its allies in a Latin America that, election after election, turns more and more to the left, finds its compensation in Europe. The party led by Santiago Abascal celebrated the fifth victory of Viktor Orban in Hungary last April and hopes to celebrate his sister Giorgia Meloni at the end of September in Italy. In between, the nationalist Jimmie Akesson has given them a surprise by elevating the Sweden Democrats (SD, for its acronym in Swedish) the second most voted force. And she has done it with a speech against illegal immigration, crime and sabre of the electric bill. “Not like the other parties”, reads one of the slogans of the SD. “Only Vox remains”, they finish off from number 12 on Bambú Street.
The Nordic ‘Abascal’ was born into a middle-class family in Solvesborg, a town of 10,000 inhabitants in southern Sweden where he was a councilman at the age of 19. He studied Political Science at the University of Lund. He is now 43, with a neatly trimmed beard and a lot of activity on social media.
His first steps in politics are linked to the -until now- main formation of the right in Sweden: the Moderates. He was a member of his youth section, something like New Generations, but soon became disenchanted. In 1995, she joined the SD youth branch. Two years later, just before he won public office in the city council of his hometown, he entered the leadership.In 2005, there were internal elections and he won the then party leader Mikael Jansson. Akesson has been at the helm for 17 years.
Founded in the late 1980s
The Sweden Democrats were founded in the late 1980s, long before Vox. Until climbing to second place in the elections they have faced certain evolution. At least in his official argument. Something that its detractors reject, since they continue to link the party to different Nazi organizations and consider that the supposed metamorphosis only responds to a varnish.
Beyond the change of logo, which went from an initial torch to a sweet daisy in the colors of the Swedish flag, the party led by Akesson seeks to become a great nationalist social movement and distance themselves from the racist groups that orbit around them. It should be remembered that he drank in his organization’s origins ‘Bevara Sverige Svensk‘ (Keep Sweden Swedish), whose model was the British Home Front.
Beyond the change of logo, which went from an initial torch to a sweet daisy, the party led by Akesson seeks to become a great nationalist movement
Now, its leaders link the arrival of immigrants and refugees to the crisis of the welfare state, but speak of a “zero tolerance” policy against racism and violence.
The The first time they managed to break into the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament, was in 2010 and they did so with 5.7% of the votes compared to the current 20.7%. Little by little, its leaders have gone from being cornered to consolidating alliances and captivating the working class. Especially at a time when the country has witnessed numerous shootings.
Increase in violence in Sweden
According to a recent report from the Crime Prevention Councilwhich compares 22 European countries, nowhere has gun violence grown so much in the last two decades as in Swedena phenomenon that experts relate to the struggles between groups for the control of drug trafficking and other illegal activities. This is how Efe picked it up. Precisely, the fight against crime and immigration, together with the energy crisis, have been the dominant themes during the electoral campaign. In Greta Thunberg’s Sweden, Akesson does not agree with the “apocalyptic” drift around climate changefor which he ended up becoming one of the main enemies of a young woman who, in his opinion, “has anxiety and is better at school.”
“We see the future of Spain in Belgium, in Paris, Denmark and Sweden“, predicted the MEP Jorge Buxade this Monday from the Vox headquarters to later congratulate SD, which also part of ECR. Buxadé criticized that, until August 31, 2022, 19,000 illegal immigrants have entered national territory. After denouncing the silence of the media in relation to the figures of “uncontrolled” illegal immigration, the Catalan politician warned that this led to “insecurity in the streets, the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean and a growth in attacks on our police.” All this “because of some politicians who do not talk about the issue and act permanently in a constant effect calling for immigration.”
On the future of Vox, Buxadé prefers to look at himself in the mirror of those of Akesson and not in the one predicted by the polls after the Andalusian elections. “There is no ceiling for those Spaniards who want a change in policies. The Spaniards want the policies of the Government of Spain to change […] Vox is no longer a containment dam like it was at the beginning, now it is the alternative.”
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