This week, a member of Sweden’s populist Sweden Democrats was called racist after tweeting that a train station decorated with SD colors was a “repatriation” train for migrants heading to Kabul.
Tobias Andersson is a Swedish member and a legal policy spokesperson for the Sweden Democrats. He commented on the picture of a Stockholm metro train that was decorated with the blue flowers from his party’s party on Tuesday.
“Welcome aboard the repatriation train. This is a one-way ticket. Next stop, Kabul!” Andersson wrote.
The tweet was criticised by a number of prominent figures in Sweden, including Centre Party leader Annie Loof, who wrote: “This is so undignified and racist. It is so difficult to comprehend why decent, bourgeois liberal friends want to vote with this party to give them power .”
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The populist Sweden Democrats have asked for the return of Syrians and Afghans to their homelands. They cite high unemployment rates and the large number of people who are not integrated. https://t.co/eySgTbBLAy
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 4, 2022
Climate Minister Annika Stranghall is a Social Democrats member and commented on the tweet by saying that: “This SD justice policy spokesperson.” “He can be Minister of Justice if Ulf or Jimmie win the elections,” refers to center-right Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristerson and SD leader Jimmie Akesson.
According to a report from broadcaster SVT, however, the attention given to the tweet helped it to go viral on Swedish social media, particularly on Twitter where the term “Kabul” was trending earlier this week, while Tobias Andersson trended on Google.
The message from Andersson comes after party leader Akesson and migration policy spokesman Ludvig Aspling penned an opinion article for the newspaper Aftonbladet earlier in the year that called or the government to start repatriating migrants who failed to integrate into Swedish society or were long-term unemployed.
“Remigration may not be a panacea, but recent failures show it to be an option for those living in exclusion. The welfare system and incentive structures must be overhauled so people who are in long-term exclusion can’t get caught in welfare dependency. Instead, they should either be forced to join society, or encouraged to migrate .”
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Swedish voters are set to go to the ballot box on the 11th of September and recent polling shows that a possible centre-right coalition involving the Moderates, the Sweden Democrats, the Christian Democrats, and the Liberals could reach nearly 50 per cent of the vote, while the ruling Social Democrats remain in the low thirites.
Sweden, Sifo poll:
S-S&D: 31% (+1)
M-EPP: 18% (-1)
SD-ECR: 17% (-1)
V-LEFT: 8%
C-RE: 6%
L-RE: 6%
KD-EPP: 6%
MP-G/EFA: 6% (+1)+/- vs. 14-16 August 2022
Fieldwork: 15-16 August 2022
Sample size: 2,109
https://t.co/rsoqcYkGpo#pldebatt #valet2022 #svpolitik pic.twitter.com/SyqzND1UMc— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) August 18, 2022
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