{"id":364336,"date":"2018-06-06T22:41:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T21:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-government-poll-shows-populist-party-surge-as-migration-issues-take-centre-stage\/"},"modified":"2018-06-06T22:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T21:41:39","slug":"swedish-government-poll-shows-populist-party-surge-as-migration-issues-take-centre-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-government-poll-shows-populist-party-surge-as-migration-issues-take-centre-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Government Poll Shows Populist Party Surge as Migration Issues Take Centre Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Swedish Government Poll Shows Populist Party Surge as Migration Issues Take Centre Stage<\/p>\n<p>A poll from the Statistics Sweden, the official statistics agency of the Swedish state, shows a solid increase in support for the populist Sweden Democrats (SD) as mass migration issues come to the forefront of the election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, which was released Tuesday, shows the anti-mass migration party increase their support by 3.7 per cent to a total of\u00a018.5 per cent, while the ruling Social Democrats have slipped 4.3 per cent to\u00a028.3 per cent, Swedish broadcaster SVT\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/inrikes\/detta-visar-scb-s-partisympatiundersokning\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are very strong numbers in this measurement.\u00a0Historically, we usually measure ourselves quite badly.\u00a0This confirms the trend, we are growing right now, and the Social Democrats are decreasing,\u201d said the leader of the Sweden\u00a0Democrats Jimmie\u00a0\u00c5kesson.<\/p>\n<p>The SD leader has seen a surge in support following a leaders\u2019 debate last month which focused on four key election issues including law and order and immigration \u2013 subjects which\u00a0\u00c5kesson dominated\u00a0according to polling\u00a0taken after the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Some, like Swedish journalist\u00a0Fredrik Furtenbach, have credited the rise in support for the SD to the prevalence of mass migration in both debates and in the news cycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSD has risen in the spring and I think it\u2019s about how much people are talking about migration \u2013 how much migration dominates the political debate,\u201d Furtenbach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sverigesradio.se\/sida\/artikel.aspx?programid=83&amp;artikel=6970047\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While calling the poll a \u201chigh-quality&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/swedish-government-poll-shows-populist-party-surge-as-migration-issues-take-centre-stage\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish Government Poll Shows Populist Party Surge as Migration Issues Take Centre Stage A poll from the Statistics Sweden, the official statistics agency of the Swedish state, shows a solid increase in support for the populist Sweden Democrats (SD) as mass migration issues come to the forefront of the election campaign. The poll, which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}