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Support for far right politics in Sweden just continues to be strong

Friday, 26 October 2012
Swedish far right party, Sweden Democrats are the third largest political force in Sweden today according to recent opinion poll. Party leader, Jimmie Åkesson, has seen in the past months a growing leap in confidence.

If general elections were held today in the country, it would see the far right party making strong decisions and polices that would shape the country's future profoundly.

In a new opinion poll conducted by the polling organisation Ipsos, for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, the far rights walloped both the Green Party and the Liberal Party or People's party. Sweden Democrats has increased their voter's perception support by 2.7 percentage points since September and are now reaching 8.5 percent.

The greatest loser is the Green party which lost 2.7 percentage points. the Conservative Moderates also lost 1.2 percent and in the first time in years, it stand below 30 percent of voters perception support.

The Christian Democrats would not have access to the parliament if elections were held today while the Centre can just manage to hang on it with great difficulty.

The Red-Green opposition coalition would get 48.3 percent of the votes against 42.7 for government's Alliance coalition.

According to political analysts who spoke to the paper, Jimmie Åkesson's effort in the party leaders' debate on Swedish television in early October, where migration had greater talking point and space, is reported to be the driver of his confidence.

But Johanna Laurin Gulled, public opinion analysts at Ipsos identified that there are several other possible explanations to the explosion of the far right in opinion support.
"The most important thing is that we are entering a recession. It leads to people being worried about their jobs, their finances and they start looking for their own house, which favours one party, Sweden Democrats. Then immigration policy has been much discussed lately."
Scancomark.com Team

Opinion Poll summary
Party	Voter's perception	Change since last
Social Democrats	34.8	+0,1
Green party	7.2	-2,7
Left Party	6.3	+1,4
Moderates	29.4	-1,2
People's Party (Liberals)	5.3	-1,0
Centre Party	4.2	+0,5
Christian Democrats	3.8	+0,6
Sweden Democrats	8.5	+2,7
Others	0.5	-0,5
Sources: Ipsos / Danges Nyehter

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