Sweden turns to the right: Meeting a new generation of political activists • FRANCE 24 English

[Music] thank you here in Sweden a right-wing government has recently come to power Ludwig film has been active in the traditional center right party since he was 15 years old young people like him have gradually been voting more right wing with support growing even for the populist Sweden Democrat Party so we have a rice in serious criminality in Sweden and a lot of young people are affected by this which I think is one of the main reasons why people are voting for the right parties in the Sweden democrats for example and the young people very often have classmates that are active or at least supports the Sweden Democrats Ludwig's moderate party leads a minority government in Coalition with the smaller Christian Democrat and liberal parties supported in Parliament by the right-wing populists the Sweden Democrats this multi-party cooperation gives the government blocker slim working majority in Parliament among the parliamentarians supporting this new Cooperative agreement the Sweden Democrat Daniel learn one of the youngest ever members of parliament he represents a movement within the party that has led them to a position more acceptable to the Swedish public our voter base are a little bit left cleaning a little bit right cleaning because there have been people moving from the moderate party and also the social Democrats mostly from the social Democrats actually so all of these people have met in the same party because there are something else than economic policies that engages them and it's the primarily the immigration the integration and such things having been born out of a 1980s neo-fascist movement the party and its leader yimio are still working towards shaking off their far-right reputation there are still people that despise us but when you meet person people on a personal level and you can connect with them and talk about things not just what you see in the TV debates when there are big words being casted fast you can just sit down grab a coffee and talk about why our political values and your political values are very different you can also always find a common respect for each other's opinions according to recent polling only four percent of swedes say the new government is doing a good job the public has mixed views on the inclusion of the Sweden Democrats I'm actually quite shocked that they are so huge now they are like the second biggest party in Sweden I hopefully the young people will make it not be so huge the next time we we won't they've been going from being quite I have to admit maybe extreme party if you go far back to become more normalized moving out of Stockholm into the neighboring County this is the traditionally left-leaning University City of uppsala the local Sweden Democrat Youth Organization meets here in City Hall so here is the local Parliament this area has seen the party's vote share almost double between 2014 and 2022 and when we are visiting the schools we usually have our stop the socialism t-shirts and some of you don't have it here you have a medium Emily in the blood the group's national leader has come to give a talk on the tidor agreement which sets out the composition and the priorities of the new government the Sweden Democrats now have to prove that they can deliver on what they say there is a risk involvement for us especially if the voters don't feel like they're getting what we promise they should get now that we are cooperating with three other different parties but I also think that when all of our proposals you come to the table of parliament get enacted when people see results and especially results with regards to the economic policies that change the income disposable incomes of households I think that people will be our voters will be loyal and they have proven to be loyal in every election up until now however not everyone is convinced academic professor boreos doesn't think that the Sweden Democrats have really turned a corner with regard to their extremist history them as far right when it writes about them I refer to them as a radical right party I must say I'm deeply concerned of the road Sweden is taken right now agreement a very central part of it is to infringe and uh my greatest writes and increased inequalities and differences between theaters and migrants Sweden Democrat Party activists here in uppsala and across the country are aiming to build on their progress towards social acceptability with the view to one day perhaps fully grasping the reins of power

Channel: FRANCE 24 English

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Keywords: FOCUS, Stockholm, Sweden, far right, france24, news

Id: jya135NKHuA

Length: 5min 41sec (341 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 13 2023