The Sweden Democrats party has overtaken the ruling Social Democrats to top an opinion poll for the first time in Sweden, which represents a new landmark for the far-right party.
The first council run by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats has voted to halve spending on teaching children their mother tongues, in their first budget since taking power.
"I'm not afraid, but I am worried," Hassan Abdullahi said while distributing voting papers at a polling station in a disadvantaged Stockholm suburb, as the far-right was set to win record support in Swedish elections Sunday.
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD), which is likely to pick up major gains in Sunday’s election, has announced that it will boycott broadcaster SVT for the station’s controversial decision to weigh in on opinions aired in a Friday night debate.
The far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) on Friday said their leader Jimmie Åkesson has received a letter with a death threat as the party is on course to win record support in Sunday's legislative election.
Hundreds of Swedish celebrities, including Hollywood star Joel Kinnaman and jazz-singer Viktoria Tolstoy, had on Thursday joined a public appeal protesting the far-right party Sweden Democrats (SD), as they look set to garner record support in Sunday's legislative election.
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.
Leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats Jimmy Åkesson has reiterated his party’s support for a “Swexit” referendum on Sweden’s EU membership, in an interview on state broadcaster Sveriges Radio.
The leader of the Sweden Democrats (SD) insists he did not know about accusations of sex crimes within the party, but the MP who raised the alarm countered that he is lying.
Jimmie Åkesson, leader of the populist Sweden Democrats (SD) party, was interrupted twice as he spoke to a hostile crowd at the Järvaveckan cross-party political forum on Saturday.
Small towns in Sweden, America and Europe are dying – and until we start to see this as a problem the populists will keep on growing, argues James Savage.
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats have suspended a political secretary following a newspaper report that he was spreading Russian propaganda, only days after a Russian-born aide in the party resigned amid claims he was a security risk.
A Russian-born political secretary for the populist, anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party has resigned after making several million kronor in a suspect property deal with a St Petersburg businessman.
The leader of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats on Saturday hailed the Nordic country's dramatic tightening of asylum policy, arguing that it would open the way for his party to join a future right-wing government.
A regional Moderate politician who went public with his desire to cooperate with the Sweden Democrats on migration policy has taken a time-out from politics after being whipped for not toeing the party line, he claimed on Thursday.
The far-right Sweden Democrats continue to rise in voter polls amid reports that party leader Jimmie Åkesson plans to publish of a diary-style book about his enemies.
A new poll puts the far-right Sweden Democrat party at a record 10 percent, with an increase in support among older voters and voters in north-central Sweden.
Support for the Sweden Democrats has risen 2.5 percentage points to 7.9 percent according to a new poll published on Wednesday, despite the scandals that have plagued the party since mid-November.
Sweden Democrat MP Lars Isovaara is leaving all of his political duties after he reportedly snuffled and spat in contempt at a parliamentary security guard, party leader Jimmie Åkesson announced on Thursday.
The prosecutor’s office has closed the investigation into whether three disgraced Sweden Democrat politicians violated hate speech laws when they went on a much-publicized racist tirade in central Stockholm.
Sweden Democrat Kent Ekeroth, who last week said he was taking a "time out" from his role as the party’s justice policy spokesman, announced on Wednesday he would step down permanently, but would keep his seat in the Riksdag.
The prosecutor handling the allegations of assault made by the head of the Social Democrat youth movement (SSU) against a doorman at a Stockholm bar has closed the case. However, Anna Sjödin and her friends are still facing assault charges after the brawl at the Crazy Horse bar in January.
