After the September 11 elections, two camps face each other: those who are worried about the victory of the extreme right, and those who accuse them of demonizing the Democrats of Sweden.
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almost a month after the legislative elections of September 11, Sweden is still looking for a government. Victorious outings of the ballot boxes, the liberal conservative right and the extreme right negotiate in the greatest secrecy. While waiting to reach an agreement, the four parties making up the new majority have already shared several key positions in Parliament. Among the most controversial appointments, that of Richard Jomshof, secretary of the Nationalist Party of Democrats of Sweden (SD), chosen to preside over the Justice Commission.
Member of the SDs since 1999, this former teacher, 53 years old, close to Jimmie Akesson, the leader of the party, made himself known for his incendiary positions on Islam in particular, a religion ” Abominable “as it is” mainly interpreted in the Muslim world “and” worse than Christianity on all levels “. He frequently mixes “Islam” and “Islamism”, which he still described as “anti -democratic religion/ideology, advocating violence and misogynistic”, in a tweet, the 1 er October.
For Richard Jomshof, his appointment is nothing less than a “milestone” in the history of his party. In Sweden, she sparked a new debate within an intelligentsia who continues to divide with tweets and editorials, since September 11, between a group that sees in the progression of SDs and their alliance with the right a “threat to democracy” and the others, which on the contrary defend the rapprochement with this movement, in the name of this same democracy. Two camps which today seem irreconcilable.
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After the elections, those who, identifying with the left, the center and even the Liberal Party, had warned against the dediabolization of the SDs by the right seemed struck. As if they had never believed that the victory of the right block was possible. In September 2010, more than 10,000 people had demonstrated in Stockholm to protest against the entrance to the far right in Parliament. This year, the historic SD score has caused any gathering.
The days passing, the editorialists of the great newspapers took over to denounce “the illiberalism” of the SDs, which registers, as the Liberal daily Dagens Nyheter recalls after the victory of the postfascist party of Georgia Meloni in Italy , “in a broader movement” in Europe. The newspaper protests against the Conservative Party, which pretends to ignore it and describe “more and more often SDs as training among others”.
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