At Almedalen Week, Sweden's annual political festival held on the island of Gotland, the party leaders all make big speeches, and this year, with an election only a few months away, people are paying close attention.
Today's party leader speech was given by Sweden Democrat Jimmie Åkesson, who used his time to launch a harsh attack on the Social Democrats, the party with the most seats in the current parliament, and the one currently far ahead in election polls.
"You let safety and security go out the window," he said in comments directed at former Social Democrat ministers, including former Justice Minister Morgan Johansson and Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist, who he believes destroyed what previous generations had built and turned safe societies into "war zones".
He also devoted part of the speech to promising to stop what he described as a Social Democrat plan to introduce "forced mixing" of the population in Sweden.
"They want to build rental apartments in residential areas and then move people there from problem areas with high immigrant populations," Åkesson said, and went on to say that one of his party's most important election promises is to introduce a citizen veto, where locals will be able to stop new rental apartments in their areas.
"Magdalena Andersson," he said, referring to the Social Democrat leader, "We are acting to stop your forced mixing. If we win the election, my promise to Swedish homeowners is that we will do everything in our power to introduce a citizens' veto."
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The Sweden Democrat plan, Åkesson said, is that in order for a municipality to be able to proceed with a project, a majority of the neighbours concerned must agree. If 25 percent say no, there will be no new residences.
"Forced mixing" is a term coined by the Tidö parties to describe the Social Democrats' new integration policy. The Social Democrats, however, have claimed that it is a misinterpretation and that the party has no proposals that will force integration on anyone.
Accusations of forced mixing are taken out of thin air, according to the Social Democrats' party secretary Tobias Baudin.
"It's a hoax," he said of Åkesson's comments. "We want to get more mixed forms of ownership, for example in the Stockholm suburbs where there will be townhouses and villas at reasonable costs."
Åkesson repeatedly targeted Magdalena Andersson in his speech, accusing her of, among other things,"selling out Sweden" to foreign interests.
"Magdalena Andersson's entire government base is infested with these Islamists," he said. "They [the Social Democrats] are clearly prepared to sell out Sweden. Selling out our country in favour of groups whose interests and loyalties lie somewhere else entirely."
Social Democrat party secretary Baudin responded to the various accusations in the speech by referring to Åkesson's party's struggling public opinion polls.
"I understand that Jimmie Åkesson is desperate," Baudin said. "But he can't be serious, he himself has been involved in governing Sweden for four years and the results are not exactly flattering."
Åkesson noted in his speech that the Tidö parties are indeed struggling in public opinion, but said he thinks his party can make a comeback.
"But we know that it is part of our DNA to strike from below and to overcome setbacks," he said.
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