Johan Norbeg analisa o resultado da eleição de ontem:
First of all: This was a historical election in a good sense. Sweden has suffered its worst economic crisis since the 1930s, and has been reformed quite substantially, and yet the center-right (“Alliance”) government was re-elected with a bigger margin. (…) the Alliance increased its share of the votes from 48.2 to 49.3%, and the red-green opposition was reduced from 46 to 43.7%. The biggest loser is the Social Democrats. They used to be a 45%-party, but in 2006, they got 34.9% of the votes. This was considered a disaster, and the leader had to resign. Yesterday, they got 30.9% of the votes – their worst result ever.
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But yesterday was also a sad day. The Alliance did not get a majority in parliament, they are two MPs short. A new anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats, entered parliament with 5.7% of the votes. These are not normal right-wing populists with roots in an anti-tax, anti-establishment message, like Norway´s Fremskrittspartiet, for example. This is a party that was started in 1988, by people from different Swedish neo-nazi groups. As late as 1996 you could see prominent members dressing up in nazi uniforms and burning books by jewish authors.
This is an ugly, racist party that has done everything it can to hide its roots in the last few years and behave like a normal party, but it is still a rejection of everything that is different that motivates them, often in a nasty, aggressive way. And even according to their own description they are like Social Democrats when it comes to the welfare state, conservatives in social issues and nationalists when it comes to globalisation and immigration. As such, they are the opposite of everything classical liberals stand for, and it is a sad day indeed, that we have racists in parliament. Their presence will deepen conflicts and brutalise the debate.
Their result is also living proof that our integration policies have failed. The politicians who refuse to reform the labour market regulations that keep immigrants out of work have a responsibility for these consequences.