On Saturday, the Sweden Democrats will hold an election kickoff in Upplands Väsby outside Stockholm. During the weekend, the party will, among other things, nail down its election platform.
SD leader Jimmie Åkesson says in a speech that the party has "nothing to be ashamed of" in public opinion.
But it doesn't matter. We are part of a team and that team has to win, he says.
"Big disadvantage"
He says that in the last election it was uncertain on election night how the election would go and that "every second" until election day therefore counts.
"It's actually a bit surreal to stand here, barely four years after the last election, and talk about how we have a tough election campaign ahead of us and a big deficit to make up for," he says.
According to Åkesson, it is "illogical and incomprehensible" that it looks like it does in the opinion polls. He refers, among other things, to the Tidö parties' changes in crime and migration policy.
It is actually completely incomprehensible that any single person in Sweden could want to return to what was before.
But the trend is quite clear. We have a significant deficit to catch up with, and time is running out.
The party has therefore identified some groups where they need to focus for the rest of the election campaign.
We must spend the remaining months building credibility also in the groups where we are weak, he says.
No market rents
It's about women, people in metropolitan regions and people in immigrant-dense areas. After the speech, Jimmie Åkesson says that they should be reached by building credibility.
There is no quick fix, but we need to be clear that it is our policy that benefits the well-behaved people who live in these problem areas.
It is our policy that benefits those who have worked for a long time in elderly care, he says.
Something he says the party has failed at.
"I think we have failed there during this term of office."
Jimmie Åkesson also emphasizes in his speech that SD is against market rents. After the speech, he says that it is a red line for the party in a possible future government after the election.
"We will not agree to any proposals for market rents, either in the existing stock or in new production," he says.
