Workers of the Administrative Board of the Skane county count votes in Malmo, southern Sweden, on September 12, 2022, one day after general elections. - AFPPIX: Concern over soaring crime has united voters in the small town of Sjobo, where the far-right Sweden Democrats, the big winners in Sunday’s election, posted their strongest score.
“Burning cars, shootings... It happens in Stockholm, Gothenburg and the other places I read about in the papers. But it’s in Skane where it happens most,“ Abdulla says.Once shunned by other political parties, the Sweden Democrats surged to become the second-largest party with around 20 percent of votes, trailing only the Social Democrats -- which have dominated Swedish politics since the 1930s -- at 30.5 percent.
Here, cafes, hair salons and pizzerias dot the quiet cobblestone main street lined with trees, resembling many small towns in Sweden. The party appeals mainly to men, the working class and pensioners, the latter two also long associated with the Social Democrats. Sjobo has fewer reported crimes than the average in the rest of southern Sweden, and around half the national average of people born abroad, official statistics show.
“If you take Skane as a whole, we have suffered from immigration much more than the rest of Sweden, or perhaps faster, and the crime it’s brought in tow,“ local SD politician Andre af Geijerstam tells AFP.It has since tried to clean up its image. In 2012 it announced a “zero-tolerance” policy against racism, though critics denounce its efforts as superficial.“We are spotlighting problems that resonate with normal people. Many other politicians...
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