Alternative for Sweden

[[File:Alternative for Sweden logo.svg|thumb|165px|Wannabe AfD]]
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'''Alternative for Sweden''' ('''AfS'''; Swedish: '''''Alternativ för Sverige''''') are an [[Alternative für Deutschland|unimaginatively named]] [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Political_spectrum#Far_right|far-right]]<ref>https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/steve-bannon-reveals-plans-visit-sweden-learn-nations-far-right-party</ref><ref>https://www.vk.se/2018-08-19/kravallstaket-pa-torget-i-umea (in Swedish)</ref><ref name="expo">
[https://expo.se/fakta/wiki/alternativ-för-sverige-afs Alternativ för Sverige (AFS)]. ''Expo'', retrieved 7 October, 2019. (in Swedish)</ref> [[populist]]<ref>https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=78&artikel=7022531</ref> political party. They received 20,290 votes (0.31%) in 2018, which was not enough to get into the Riksdag (Swedish parliament).<ref>[https://data.val.se/val/val2018/slutresultat/R/rike/index.html Röster - Val 2018]. Valmyndigheten, retrieved 8 October, 2019. (in Swedish)</ref> AfS also ran in the 2019 [[European Union|EU]] parliamentary election, where they basically got the same insignificant proportion of votes as in the general election.<ref>https://data.val.se/val/ep2019/slutresultat/E/rike/index.html</ref>

== History ==
In 2017, the founders of what would become AfS gathered signatures to create the party at the Nordic [[alt-right]] conference Scandza Forum.<ref name='expo'/> AfS was then founded in March 2018 by members of the former youth wing of the [[Sweden Democrats]].<ref group="note">The {{wpl|Sweden Democratic Youth|}}, which was excluded in 2015 due to internal conflict with the party leadership.</ref> 

AfS bet hard that they would get into the Riksdag in the 2018 general election, spending a lot of resources on their campaign. They ordered 10 million ballot papers for the 2018 election, which cost them around 600,000 Swedish kronor.<ref>https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/gPnwOJ/tre-gripna-i-samband-med-afs-demonstration</ref>

== Positions ==
{{cquote|We declare war against those who [[Great replacement|replace our people]]! Stop mass immigration. Begin repatriation.|4=AfS banner during a demonstration in Stockholm.<ref name="greatreplacement">https://expo.se/2019/03/det-stora-utbytet-sprids-av-b%C3%A5de-politiker-och-terrorister</ref>}}
* Their immigration policy involves "active repatriation",<ref>{{a|https://alternativforsverige.se/atervandring|Återvandring}}. Alternative for Sweden. (in Swedish)</ref> which in layman's terms means deporting all immigrants back to their home countries. 
* They want to switch from progressive tax to a flat tax. 
* While the [[Great Replacement]] conspiracy theory does not appear as part of the official party line, many high-ranking members have shown support for it.<ref name='greatreplacement'/>
* AfS wants to remove "hets from folkgrupp" ("agitation against an ethnic group", which is similar to {{wpl|Volksverhetzung|''Volksverhetzung''}} in Germany) from the Criminal Code, since they believe that it is too open for "interpertation" and is used to suppress [[Hate speech|freedom of speech]]. This is probably because AfS have been accused of it several times.<ref>https://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/polisanmalan-om-hets-mot-folkgrupp-i-visby/</ref><ref>https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2018-09-03/afs-talare-anmald-for-hets-mot-folkgrupp</ref> 
* They want "[[Alt-right_glossary#Gender_studies|gender studies]]" removed from academia while also expanding on [[academic freedom]].<ref>{{a|https://alternativforsverige.se/skola/|Skola}}. Alternative for Sweden. (in Swedish)</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Ingrid Carlqvist]], influential in the party's founding
* [[Hans Jørgen Lysglimt Johansen]], their ally across the border in [[Norway]]
* [[Sweden Democrats]], where many party members came from during 2018.

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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[[Category:European political parties]]
[[Category:Great Replacement conspiracy theorists]]
[[Category:Nordic white nationalism]]
[[Category:Sweden]]

Categories: European political parties, Great Replacement conspiracy theorists, Nordic white nationalism, Sweden