Who's really Swedish if the Sweden Democrats get to decide?

Sweden in Focus · Nov 6, 2026 · 46m

Jimmie Åkesson and Richard Jomshof are old university friends and both were part of the "Gang of Four" who remoulded a party with Nazi roots into an electable entity.

Part of that remake involved scrapping an ethnocentric views of what it means to be Swedish. But Jomshof scratched an old itch recently by attempting to reestablish a biological link to Swedishness.

Sweden Democrat leader Åkesson responded angrily and Jomshof's standing in the party hierarchy is now in question. But what's behind the squabbling? And what does it say about the future of a party still licking its wounds after a…