(AFP) Barring a major upset, Sweden’s far-right is on course for a record result in September 9 legislative elections, capitalising on the mood of voters who feel they are being left behind in favour of hundreds of thousands of newly-arrived asylum seekers.
With two weeks to go to the election, opinion polls suggest the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) could sweep around 20 percent of votes, making them the second- or third-biggest party.
That could give SD — an offshoot of the neo-Nazi movement but now clamouring for political legitimacy — significant influence over Swedish politics.
SD has said it is willing to collaborate with either the left or right, as long as it can shape the country’s immigration policy.
