The Swedish Democrats (SD) look set to become the big election winner in Sweden and the second largest party in the country.
The anti-immigration party has previously been criticized for its radical neo-Nazi and right-wing roots, from which the party has now distanced itself. Party leader Jimmie Åkesson told Dagbladet over the weekend that the party did zero tolerance against extremism.
SD PROFILE: Rebacka Fallenkvist is one of the leading figures in the communication channel of the Swedish Democrats Riks. Photo: screenshot / Youtube / Samnytt
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But election night might sound like it’s just a Hitler greeting SD profile that Rebecka Fallenkvist served during an interview with alternative news site Samnytt, she writes. SVT.
Remarkably drunk, at the election vigil she is asked how she feels that her party has done so well, and replies “victory at the weekend” and raises an arm. Not unlike the “hell seger” used by the Nordic Nazi resistance movement and the Swedish version of German, among others “Sieg Heil” – an official Nazi salute to Germany under Hitler’s rule.
– So, what a damn wonderful time this is. Holy victory, says Fallenkvist.
However, Fallenkvist quickly follows the word “victory weekend”:
– It’s a winning weekend for SD, he says.
In Norwegian, “segerhelg” can be translated as “victory weekend”.
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– Drank too much
On Monday, SVT asked Fallenkvist what he meant by “victory weekend” and the subsequent “victory weekend”.
– I do not take responsibility for what people interpret, but exclusively for what I say. I was “överförfriskad” and shouldn’t have had the interview. I corrected the victory weekend because it is grammatically correct.
He insists that what he meant was “helg seger” – which means “helg seier” in Norwegian.
– But later I realized that reporters can over-interpret it. So I corrected it in “segerhelg” (note from the diary of the victory weekend ..), he tells SVT.
The leader of the party of the Swedish Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson, responds to accusations of extremism in his own party after the last debate among the leaders of the party before the elections in Sweden. Reporter: Kjetil Kjær Andersland. Video: Ingunn Dorholt / TT
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When asked by SVT what “victory weekend” is in this case, Fallenkvist replies that he understands what they are asking.
– Not everyone is used to winning as we Swedish Democrats are. But as you can see from the election results, it is a “weekend of victory” (weekend of victory journ. Note ..).
– It doesn’t look good
– Unnecessary
For L’Espresso Fallenkvist writes that Helg seger was something he said in an attempt to play on “usual media overinterpretations”.
– But in hindsight I realize that it was not necessary, he writes in a comment to the newspaper.
The phrase victory weekend was also used by Fallenkvist in a Twitter message Sunday afternoon, election day:
– Serious mating
Swedish Democrats press secretary Oskar Cavalli-Björkman also commented on the statement to SVT. He says Fallenkvist wanted to participate in the victory parade – a controversial advertisement used by SD ahead of the elections, and that she was too drunk.
– There is a serious connection, and it is a connection created mainly by the media, of course. But I can understand that one does. When you hear it, it sounds like this. But I really have no reason to believe it was anything other than that she was too drunk and that it was a mistake, Cavalli-Björkman tells SVT.
Victory train refers to when an entire subway train before the Swedish parliamentary elections was dressed in the Swedish Democrats logo, as well as the lyrics “Welcome aboard the Victory Train” and “SD 22” on the doors, according to The evening paper.
Among other things, the local union Seko Tunnelbanan has been critical of political advertising. They believed it posed a security risk because SD opponents could attack the train, the union chief in Sekotidningen said, according to Aftonbladet.
It also caused a furore when Tobias Andersson, spokesman for the judicial policy of the Swedish Democrats, posted a photo of the train on his Twitter account and wrote: “Welcome to the emigration train. You have only one ticket. Next stop, Kabul!”.
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