Sweden: Anti Migration Sentiments Looming Before Election

With the refugee outbreak in 2015 Europe becomes a home to billions of refugees and migrants. With refugee’s, it got problems also like shooting, grenade attacks etc. But as a country in an exception state, Sweden has been considered as a liberal and open to migrants. But with one week to go before the election on 9 September, in a country that has long prided itself on being perhaps Europe’s most liberal and open to migrants, popular concern over migration looks set to propel the populist, far-right and anti-immigration Sweden Democrats to a possible 20% of the vote.
“Of course it’s about immigration,” said Paula Bieler, a member of the party’s executive board, in its offices in the Riksdag. “But immigration affects so much else. Other parties don’t make those connections, won’t talk about these problems, because it’s ‘not nice’ to do so. That’s basically telling voters they’re stupid.”
reflecting expands made by far-right, anti-establishment parties in Italy, Germany, France, Austria and the Netherlands, the Sweden Democrats have plainly promoted from the 2015 crisis that overwhelmed the country, overwhelming social services and sparking such local fury that refugee housing centres were set on fire.   But in fact, said Anders Sannerstadt, a political scientist at Lund University and specialist in the far-right party, a nation that once billed itself as a “humanitarian superpower” has long been spat over asylum and migration.
> Alma Siddiqua