Editing Sweden Democrats (section)

==Policies and beliefs==
=== Domestic policy ===
The party is a supporter of the [[Monarchy of Sweden|Swedish monarchy]] playing a constitutional and cultural role in Swedish life, but also supports an amendment to the [[Basic Laws of Sweden|constitution]] that obligates the Riksdag to elect a new monarch in the event of there being no heir to the throne.<ref>{{cite web |title=Monarki |url=https://sd.se/our-politics/monarki/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501080832/https://sd.se/our-politics/monarki/ |archive-date=2021-05-01 |access-date=14 February 2021 |website=Sverigedemokraterna |language=sv-SE}}</ref> In 2025 the party supported changing the citizenship requirements to the conditions of being able to speak Swedish, having education about Swedish culture and having an honest way of life, as well as declaring loyalty to Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-01-03 |title=Åkessons besked: Invandrare måste förklara lojalitet till Sverige |url=https://www.etc.se/inrikes/aakessons-besked-invandrare-maaste-foerklara-lojalitet-till-sverige |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Dagens ETC |language=sv}}</ref>

The Sweden Democrats are critical of the special rights given to the indigenous [[Sámi people]] of northern Sweden. In 2008 the party accepted a motion against the rights to [[Reindeer herding|reindeer husbandry]]. They have argued that those "who do not involve themselves with reindeer husbandry are treated as second class citizens" and that the privileges the herders have are "undemocratic". They also want to abolish the [[Sámi Parliament of Sweden|Sámi Parliament]], which claims special privileges for an "ethnic minority while the society claims equal rights for others".<ref>{{cite news |last=Holmström |first=Mikael |date=2 May 2008 |title=SD till attack mot renägande samer |trans-title=The Sweden Democrats on the attack against reindeer owning Sami |url=http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/sd-till-attack-mot-renagande-samer_1204465.svd |url-access=subscription |access-date=8 November 2010 |newspaper=[[Svenska Dagbladet]] |location=Karlstad |language=sv |archive-date=16 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716080151/http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/sd-till-attack-mot-renagande-samer_1204465.svd |url-status=live }}</ref> 

=== National identity and culture ===
The Sweden Democrats value a strong common national and [[cultural identity]], believing these to be the most basic cornerstones of a functioning democracy and successful society. Minimizing linguistic, cultural and religious differences in society and emphasizing a defined sense of Swedish cultural values and social norms has a positive effect on [[Social cohesion|societal cohesion]], maintaining a welfare state and encouraging solidarity among the population, according to the party. On its platform, SD states the Swedish nation is defined "in terms of loyalty, a common language and common culture". A requirement for becoming a member of the Swedish nation is to either "be born in it or by actively choosing to be a part of it". For these reasons among others, SD{{nbsp}}firmly rejects [[multiculturalism]] and argues that Sweden should preserve its cultural heritage by assimilating newcomers and maintaining Swedish as the nation's official language.<ref name=":2" />

Until the 2000s, the SD attached [[Ethnopluralism|ethnopluralist]] arguments to its defense of a Swedish homeland and culture.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:710302/FULLTEXT01.pdf |title=We are Sweden Democrats because we care for others: Exploring racisms in the Swedish extreme right |access-date=2024-02-02}}</ref> The 2005 party handbook called for a "high degree of ethnic and cultural similarity among the population"<ref name="auto13"/> while the old party platform described the need to preserve the "inherited essence" of ethnic Swedes.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/12/jimmie-akesson-who-is-the-leader-of-the-far-right-sweden-democrats |title=Jimmie Åkesson: who is the leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats? |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=12 September 2022 |access-date=2024-07-17 |last1=Crouch |first1=David }}</ref> However, the SD's official platform since 2018 no longer refers to a Swedish nation and people in an ethnically defined context, but adopts a more moderate [[Cultural conservatism|cultural conservative]] policy promoting a shared national identity in which foreign-born people can become Swedish through stricter assimilation policies in exchange for citizenship and by the state asserting a more defined concept of Swedish culture and social values.<ref name="auto7">{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/in-sweden-populist-nationalists-won-on-policy-but-lost-on-politics/569968/|title=In Sweden, Populist Nationalists Won on Policy, but Lost on Politics|first=Benjamin R.|last=Teitelbaum|date=12 September 2018|website=The Atlantic|access-date=12 September 2018|archive-date=24 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124100233/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/in-sweden-populist-nationalists-won-on-policy-but-lost-on-politics/569968/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="dw.com">{{cite news |last1=Orange |first1=Richard |title=Sweden Democrats can't shake neo-Nazi tag |url=https://www.dw.com/en/neo-nazi-background-hounds-sweden-democrats/a-45344978 |publisher=[[Deutsche Welle|DW]] |date=9 August 2019 |access-date=20 June 2023 |archive-date=20 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230620213917/https://www.dw.com/en/neo-nazi-background-hounds-sweden-democrats/a-45344978 |url-status=live }}</ref> The SD argues that not having a defined sense of what it means to be Swedish makes it harder for those of non-Western cultures to understand and become part of Swedish society. SD representatives have expressed that lacking a defined Swedish cultural identity and society will leave Sweden vulnerable to takeovers by more defined but aggressive cultures and social attitudes, with members of the party citing Islamic culture as an example. The SD has cited a strong work ethic, respect for nature, speaking Swedish and equality between the sexes as important parts of Swedish cultural values that the country should strive to maintain.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-rise-of-sweden-democrats-and-the-end-of-swedish-exceptionalism/ |title=The Rise of Sweden Democrats: Islam, Populism and the End of Swedish Exceptionalism |access-date=2025-03-22}}</ref>

In a 2014 interview for ''[[Dagens Nyheter]]'', Second Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag and then-party secretary [[Björn Söder]] elaborated on the SD{{nbsp}}party programme with respect to its views on national identity and obtaining Swedish citizenship by saying that although an immigrant of any ethnic background in theory can become a Swedish citizen, they would have to adapt and be [[Cultural assimilation|assimilated]] in order to be considered Swedish in the cultural sense, since the SD does not view a simple acquisition of Swedish citizenship with no assimilation requirements as the same as becoming part of Swedish society.<ref name="Den leende nationalismen">{{cite news |date=14 December 2014 |title=Den leende nationalismen |url=https://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/den-leende-nationalismen/ |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308045119/https://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/den-leende-nationalismen/ |archive-date=2017-03-08 |access-date=27 December 2014 |work=Dagens Nyheter |language=sv}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=23 April 2014 |title=Sverigedemokraternas Principprogram 2011 |url=https://sverigedemokraterna.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/principprogrammet2014_webb.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606214930/https://sverigedemokraterna.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/principprogrammet2014_webb.pdf |archive-date=2014-06-06 |access-date=1 January 2015 |publisher=The Sweden Democrats |page=15 |language=sv}}</ref> In the interview, Söder stated that the officially recognised Swedish minority peoples such as [[Sámi peoples|Sámi]], [[Tornedalians]] and [[History of the Jews in Sweden|Jews]]) in many cases had dual cultural identities and that they probably would be proud of both heritages, and claimed that while these minorities are part of Sweden today, they had to give up part of their own culture in the past to become culturally Swedish.<ref name="Den leende nationalismen" /> It was widely interpreted that Söder had stated in the interview that Jews cannot be Swedish unless they abandon their Jewish identity.<ref>{{cite web|author=David Crouch|title=Swedish far-right leader: Jews must abandon religious identity to be Swedes|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/17/swedish-far-right-leader-jews-swedes|access-date=24 February 2015|work=the Guardian|date=17 December 2014|archive-date=23 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223104117/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/17/swedish-far-right-leader-jews-swedes|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=18 December 2014|title=Far-right Swedish leader: Jews have dual identities and can therefor not be truly Swedish, but that it wouldn't necessarily be a negative thing|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.632496|access-date=24 February 2015|work=[[Haaretz.com]]|archive-date=10 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310181559/http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.632496|url-status=live}}</ref> Söder's comments were accused of being antisemitic and caused Swedish parliamentary groups and party leaders to call for Björn Söder's resignation.<ref>{{cite news|date=15 December 2014|title=Partiernas krav på Björn Söder: Avgå som talman|newspaper=Dagens Nyheter|url=https://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/partiernas-krav-pa-bjorn-soder-avga-som-talman/|access-date=27 December 2014|publisher=[[Dagens Nyheter]]|language=sv|archive-date=16 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416023755/http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/partiernas-krav-pa-bjorn-soder-avga-som-talman/|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]] listed the statement as number six on their list of the top ten most anti-semitic events of 2014.<ref>{{cite web|title=2014 Top Ten Worst Global Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Incidents|url=http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D/TOP-TEN_2014_FINAL-12-31.PDF|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020121332/http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D/TOP-TEN_2014_FINAL-12-31.PDF|archive-date=20 October 2017|access-date=6 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Söders uttalande bland de tio värsta under 2014|url=https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/soders-uttalande-bland-de-tio-varsta-under-2014/|access-date=24 February 2015|work=[[Dagens Nyheter]]|date=6 January 2015|archive-date=13 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113072641/http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/soders-uttalande-bland-de-tio-varsta-under-2014/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Söder sexa bland antijudiska händelser|url=http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/soder-sexa-bland-antijudiska-handelser/|access-date=20 June 2015|work=Expressen|date=6 January 2015|archive-date=4 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704050923/http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/soder-sexa-bland-antijudiska-handelser/|url-status=live}}</ref> Söder responded in ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', denying the charges of anti-semitism and claiming ''Dagens Nyheter'' had taken his statements out of context. In response, the SD also stated that it rejects antisemitism in Sweden and supports Israel in foreign policy, and that its proposed assimilation model is based on recognizing the difference between the concept of nationhood and acquired citizenship as opposed to implying minorities have split loyalties.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sweden Democrats reject anti-Semitism|url=http://www.jpost.com/landedpages/printarticle.aspx?id=386751|access-date=4 November 2015|work=[[Jpost.com]]|archive-date=9 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109091817/http://www.jpost.com/landedpages/printarticle.aspx?id=386751|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Sweden Democrats advocates a cultural policy that would strip government funding for multicultural initiatives and strengthen support for traditional Swedish culture. This agenda has often manifested itself as opposition to state funding of immigrant cultural organisations and festivals, and more support for traditional Swedish craft, folk music, and folk dance groups. The party also tends to oppose state support for cultural initiatives deemed provocative or elitist.<ref name="Teitelbaum 2013">{{Cite thesis |last=Teitelbaum |first=Benjamin R. |title='Come Hear Our Merry Song': Shifts in the Sound of Contemporary Swedish Radical Nationalism |date=2013 |access-date=30 August 2024 |degree=PhD |publisher=[[Brown University]] |url=https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320631/ |pages=242–265 |archive-date=30 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240830192236/https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:320631/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A 2014 letter signed by 52{{nbsp}}Swedish anthropologists, criticised the Sweden Democrats' use of the terms "culture" (''kultur'' {{IPA|sv|kɵlˈtʉːr||Sv-Kultur.ogg}}) and "anthropology" (''antropologi'' {{IPA|sv|antrɔpʊlʊˈɡiː||Sv-Antropologi.ogg}}), claiming their views on culture were "[[Gender essentialism|essentialist]] and obsolete", clarifying that culture is "dynamic" and "in constant change".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Garsten |first1=Christina |last2=Nilsson |first2=Erik |last3=Finnström |first3=Sverker |last4=Höjdestrand |first4=Tove |date=18 December 2014 |title=Sverigedemokraterna misstolkar begreppet kultur |trans-title=The Sweden Democrats misunderstands the concept of culture |url=http://www.svt.se/opinion/sverigedemokraterna-misstolkar-begreppet-kultur |publisher=[[Sveriges Television]] |language=sv |access-date=24 July 2015 |archive-date=25 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725013740/http://www.svt.se/opinion/sverigedemokraterna-misstolkar-begreppet-kultur |url-status=live }}</ref> The Sweden Democrats themselves maintain that traditional elements of Sweden's culture should not be rendered obsolete in favour of multiculturalism and argue Swedish cultural values contributed to the nation's economic and social successes through the "people's home" (''[[Folkhemmet]]'') concept. According to scholar Bo Nilsson, the party links the adoption of multicultural policies with a subsequent decline in the ''Folkhemmet'' model and Sweden's success.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13527258.2022.2042718#d1e340 |title=An ideology-critical examination of the cultural heritage policies of the Sweden Democrats |access-date=2025-03-25}}</ref>

The Sweden Democrats also criticise modern art and have accused local councils of wasting public money on what it calls "provocative" art.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/11/26/how-long-will-swedens-nationalists-be-excluded-from-power|title=How long will Sweden's nationalists be excluded from power?|date=26 November 2020|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=26 February 2021|archive-date=26 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226125458/https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/11/26/how-long-will-swedens-nationalists-be-excluded-from-power|url-status=live}}</ref> The SD want citizens to be able to vote in local referendums on public art displayed near schools, public transport stations and town centres. "The important thing is that what is expressed in the public environment is anchored to the citizens and especially the local residents who are most often in the environment so that they feel an identification", says the party's cultural spokesperson [[Aron Emilsson]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/sverigedemokraterna-vill-byta-ut-konsten-i-slussens-tunnelbana|title=Sverigedemokraterna vill byta ut konsten i Slussens tunnelbana|date=23 August 2018|newspaper=SVT Nyheter|access-date=7 December 2018|last1=Elliott|first1=Katia|archive-date=29 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029232429/https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/sverigedemokraterna-vill-byta-ut-konsten-i-slussens-tunnelbana|url-status=live}}</ref> Sweden Democrats mayor in [[Sölvesborg]] [[Louise Erixon]] claimed "There's a big division between what the general public thinks is beautiful and interesting and what a tiny cultural elite thinks is exciting".<ref>{{cite web |last=Orange |first=Richard |date=2019-10-29 |title=Swedish town bans 'provocative' art |url=https://www.dw.com/en/swedish-far-right-town-bans-provocative-public-art/a-51037702 |access-date=30 August 2024 |website=[[Deutsche Welle|DW]] |archive-date=1 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240401020852/https://www.dw.com/en/swedish-far-right-town-bans-provocative-public-art/a-51037702 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Sweden Democrats also support a ban on the [[burqa]] and [[niqāb]] in public places and are against proposals to publicly broadcast the Islamic call to prayer from minarets.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/sweden-allows-call-to-prayer-from-stockholm-minaret-41669|title=Sweden allows call to prayer from Stockholm minaret – World News|website=Hürriyet Daily News|date=22 February 2013|access-date=26 February 2021|archive-date=9 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509025240/https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/sweden-allows-call-to-prayer-from-stockholm-minaret-41669|url-status=live}}</ref> The SD wants tougher enforcement of existing laws against [[female genital mutilation]], honor violence and social segregation. The party also wants Swedish to remain Sweden's main official language in state funded schools, government agencies and public funded media, and for more teaching of Swedish cultural history in schools.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://samtiden.nu/2018/06/efter-danmark-och-norge-sd-valkomnar-burkaforbud/|title=Efter Danmark och Norge: SD välkomnar burkaförbud|date=7 June 2018|website=Samtiden.nu|access-date=7 December 2018|archive-date=30 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030035403/https://samtiden.nu/2018/06/efter-danmark-och-norge-sd-valkomnar-burkaforbud/|url-status=live}}</ref> It also supports prohibiting the [[hijab]] in primary schools, arguing that while it is not opposed to hijabs in general, the choice to wear it should be made on an individual basis when a child reaches adulthood.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.thelocal.se/20190613/swedish-council-bans-staff-from-praying-at-work-sweden-democrats-bromolla-skane| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190613095429/https://www.thelocal.se/20190613/swedish-council-bans-staff-from-praying-at-work-sweden-democrats-bromolla-skane| archive-date = 13 June 2019| title = Sweden Democrat council bans staff from praying at work – The Local}}</ref> The SD is strongly opposed to [[Sharia|sharia law]] being incorporated into the Swedish legal system.<ref name="brookings">{{cite web |author=Tomson |first=Danielle Lee |date=25 March 2020 |title=The Rise of Sweden Democrats: Islam, Populism and the End of Swedish Exceptionalism |url=https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-rise-of-sweden-democrats-and-the-end-of-swedish-exceptionalism/ |access-date=20 November 2021 |publisher=Brookings.edu |archive-date=27 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327042822/https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-rise-of-sweden-democrats-and-the-end-of-swedish-exceptionalism/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Leading party representatives have also spoken out in various contexts against mosques and Islamic centres in Sweden.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hd.se/landskrona/2009/07/31/riskerar-uteslutning-fraan/ |title=Riskerar uteslutning från Sverigedemokraterna |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806120323/http://hd.se/landskrona/2009/07/31/riskerar-uteslutning-fraan/ |access-date=31 January 2024|archive-date=6 August 2011 }}</ref> In 2023, SD leader [[Jimmie Åkesson]] argued that Swedish mosques which preach "anti-democratic, anti-Swedish, homophobic, anti-Semitic propaganda" should be closed and demolished and expressed opposition to the construction of new Islamic buildings. SD has also argued that other Swedish parties, particularly those on the left such as the [[Swedish Social Democratic Party|Social Democrats]] are tolerant of Islamist activities in Sweden to secure votes at the expense of Swedish culture and security.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thelocal.se/20231127/sweden-democrat-leader-calls-for-mosques-to-be-demolished |title=Sweden Democrat leader calls for mosques to be demolished |date=27 November 2023 |access-date=2025-02-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/27/swedens-prime-minister-condemns-far-right-call-to-demolish-mosques |title=Sweden's prime minister condemns far-right call to demolish mosques |date=27 November 2023 |access-date=2025-02-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/swedish-pm-ulf-kristersson-slams-far-right-party-leader-for-suggesting-mosques-should-be-demolished/ |website=[[Politico]] |first=Claudia |last=Chiappa |title=Swedish PM rebukes far-right leader who said mosques should be flattened |date=27 November 2023 |access-date=2024-08-11 |archive-date=23 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223144305/https://www.politico.eu/article/swedish-pm-ulf-kristersson-slams-far-right-party-leader-for-suggesting-mosques-should-be-demolished/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="brookings" /> In January 2024, [[Richard Jomshof]], chairman of the Justice Committee in the Riksdag, ignited controversy in Sweden by proposing the prohibition of the Islamic [[star and crescent]].<ref>{{Cite news |first=Adrian |last=Ericson |date=2024-01-22 |title=Jomshof: Förbjud halvmånar likt hakkors |trans-title=Jomshof: Ban crescents like swasticas |url=https://www.svd.se/a/4o9rPV/jomshof-forbjud-halvmanar-offentligt |access-date=2024-01-24 |work=[[Svenska Dagbladet]] |language=sv |issn=1101-2412 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=26 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326110519/https://www.svd.se/a/4o9rPV/jomshof-forbjud-halvmanar-offentligt |url-status=live }}</ref> He drew parallels to the ban on the [[Swastika]], claiming that both symbols represent something dangerous.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Johannes |last=Nilsson |date=2024-01-23 |title=C rasar mot Jomshof: 'Hatpredikan' |trans-title=C rages against Jomshof: 'Hate speech' |url=https://nyheteridag.se/c-rasar-mot-jomshof-hatpredikan/ |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=[[Nyheter Idag]] |language=sv |archive-date=17 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317092825/https://nyheteridag.se/c-rasar-mot-jomshof-hatpredikan/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first=Niklas |last=Svahn |date=2024-01-22 |title=Jomshof: Förbjud halvmånar likt hakkors |trans-title=Jomshof: Ban crescents like swasticas |language=sv |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/O8vlVl |access-date=2024-01-24 |website=[[Aftonbladet]] }}</ref> 

==== Immigration ====
The Sweden Democrats believe that [[Immigration to Sweden|Sweden's recent immigration]] and integration policies have been a national failure. In a statement filed before the [[Riksdag]] Committee on Migration in August 2020, SD claims that Sweden's "irresponsible" immigration and asylum policies have subjected Sweden to an on-going "long-term, albeit low-intensity crisis".<ref name=":1">{{cite web|last=|first=|date=13 August 2020|title=Särskilt yttrande av Sverigedemokraterna i Migrationskommitténs slutbetänkande En långsiktigt hållbar migrationspolitik|trans-title=Special statement by the Sweden Democrats in the Migration Committee's final report "A long-term sustainable migration policy"|url=https://ratatosk.sd.se/sd/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/13092823/sarskilt_yttrande_migrationskommitten-1.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004230733/https://ratatosk.sd.se/sd/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/13092823/sarskilt_yttrande_migrationskommitten-1.pdf|archive-date=4 October 2020|access-date=15 January 2021|website=|publisher=Sweden Democrats}}</ref> The SD official policy brief states that the party "welcomes those who contribute to our [Sweden's] society, who follow our laws and respect our customs. On the other hand, anyone who comes here and exploits our systems, commits crimes or exposes our citizens to danger is not welcome".<ref>{{cite web|title=Vår politik|url=https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/|access-date=15 January 2021|website=Sverigedemokraterna|language=sv-SE|archive-date=22 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622211421/https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Historically, SD sought to repatriate most immigrants and ban immigration entirely; however, these policies were moderated in the 1990s before being abolished altogether.<ref name="auto6"/> Presently, SD positions itself against [[mass immigration]] and wishes to strongly restrict immigration by instead giving generous support to those who do not want to assimilate into Swedish society to emigrate back to their country of origin. The SD also wants to change laws to allow for wider deportations of foreign residents who engage in illegal activity or are unemployed and abusing state welfare.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sd.se/vad-vi-vill/en-strikt-invandringspolitik/ |title=En strikt Invandringspolitik |access-date=2025-02-13}}</ref> The Sweden Democrats also call for an expansion of circumstances in which citizenship can be revoked from naturalized citizens, with Jimmie Åkesson mentioning examples of those who commit crimes, engage in delinquency, support terrorism or remain socially unintegrated into society.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Svahn |first=Niklas |date=2023-11-09 |title=SD: Återkalla medborgarskap i fler fall |trans-title=SD: Revoke citizenship in more cases |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/dwW2Lz/sd-aterkalla-medborgarskap-i-fler-fall |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=[[Aftonbladet]] |language=sv |agency=[[TT News Agency|TT]]}}</ref> The Sweden Democrats also support raising the [[remigration]] allowance given to migrants and asylum seekers who seek to voluntarily leave the country.<ref>{{cite news|work=Euractiv|title=Swedish coalition divided over remigration allowance|date=10 September 2024|url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/swedish-coalition-divided-over-remigration-allowance/}}</ref> The SD argues that its immigration policies are not based on xenophobia and that the party is not opposed to immigration per say, but believe immigration must stay at a level where it does not "threaten national identity, the country's welfare or security".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sd.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sverigedemokraternas-principprogram-2019.pdf |title=Principprogram |access-date=2024-02-02 |archive-date=24 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324201114/https://sd.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sverigedemokraternas-principprogram-2019.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> SD has also campaigned to restrict immigration from what it calls "culturally distant" countries and argues that temporary work visas should be limited only to skills that are impossible to find in Sweden.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sverigedemokraternaspartiprogram.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/sverigedemokraterna-invandringspolitiskt-program/ |title=Immigration policy action program |date=23 August 2010 |access-date=2024-02-02 |archive-date=6 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240406030308/https://sverigedemokraternaspartiprogram.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/sverigedemokraterna-invandringspolitiskt-program/ |url-status=live }}</ref> SD are against [[Freedom of movement for workers in the European Union|free movement of labour]] within the European Union, calling on Sweden to revise its membership of the [[Schengen agreement]], but support free movement between [[Nordic countries|Nordic nations]].<ref name="auto13"/> The SD believes that Sweden will be better able to help [[refugee]]s and economic migrants in their home areas once more state funds are freed from being directed towards funding immigration in Sweden.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sd-vill-satsa-mer-pa-bistand-an-regeringen/|title=SD vill satsa på mer bistånd än regeringen|work=Expressen|access-date=29 October 2017|language=sv|archive-date=16 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916195559/http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sd-vill-satsa-mer-pa-bistand-an-regeringen/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/migrationspolitik/|title=Migrationspolitik|access-date=22 December 2020|archive-date=22 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220522133348/https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/migrationspolitik/|url-status=dead}}</ref> SD also favours cultural assimilation over integration of immigrants from non-Western backgrounds, arguing that integration is a meet in the middle approach and that Swedes should not have to bear the burden over what the party claims have been reckless immigration policies. {{ill|Torbjörn Kastell|sv}} (former party secretary from 2003 to 2004) said in 2002 that the party wanted "a multicultural world, not a multicultural society".<ref name="autogenerated10" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/business/sweden-economy-immigration.html|title=The Nordic Model May Be the Best Cushion Against Capitalism. Can It Survive Immigration? (Published 2019)|first=Peter S.|last=Goodman|newspaper=The New York Times|date=11 July 2019|access-date=7 March 2021|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308223333/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/business/sweden-economy-immigration.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 

When handling asylum seekers and refugee cases, the SD supports protecting [[Nation state|national sovereignty]] in regards to Sweden's decisions on migration and border control. The party calls for Sweden to adopt "the principle of first safe country" into its asylum laws, meaning that asylum seekers should only be able to seek refugee status in the first safe country that they arrive in and will be refused refugee status in Sweden if they have already crossed multiple safe countries or their case is already registered in a foreign state.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sd.se/vad-vi-vill/myter-om-invandring/ |title=Myter om invandring |access-date=2025-02-13}}</ref> Until such legislation is realized by the Riksdag, SD supports implementing stronger deterrents against asylum migration to Sweden through other countries and setting stricter limits on the right to welfare that asylum seekers are entitled to by the Swedish state and making cultural assimilation of those already in Sweden mandatory. The party opposes offering [[permanent residency]] to refugees, believing that temporary residency should be the standard for those who claim asylum in Sweden before a path to full residency or citizenship is considered. SD supports Sweden eventually accepting refugees exclusively through the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|UNHCR]] resettlement programme in accordance with a quota based on each [[Municipalities of Sweden|municipality]]'s capacity once Sweden's asylum laws are reformed and tightened.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=3 May 2020|title=Asylinvandring|url=https://sd.se/our-politics/asylinvandring/|access-date=15 January 2021|website=Sverigedemokraterna|language=sv-SE|archive-date=19 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119104914/https://sd.se/our-politics/asylinvandring/|url-status=dead}}</ref> SD has also referred to the recommendations from the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] (UNHCR) which state that the return of refugees should be the solution to refugee problems.<ref name="autogenerated10" /> On asylum cases from the Middle East and Africa, the party supports giving priority to persecuted Christian, former Muslim and other religious or sexual minorities fleeing war or death for apostasy, believing that such individuals are less likely to be offered refuge elsewhere.<ref name="auto4">{{Cite web |title=Utrikespolitik |trans-title=Foreign policy |url=https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/utrikespolitik/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914202545/https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/utrikespolitik/ |archive-date=14 September 2021 |access-date=5 March 2021 |website=Sverigdemokraterna}}</ref> In 2017, members of the Sweden Democrats' leadership defended comments made by then US President [[Donald Trump]] in response to Trump's assertion that Sweden's immigration and asylum policies had led to a rise of terrorism and crime in Sweden.<ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-is-right-swedens-embrace-of-refugees-isnt-working-1487807010| title = Trump Is Right: Sweden's Embrace of Refugees Isn't Working – WSJ| newspaper = Wall Street Journal| date = 22 February 2017| access-date = 2 November 2021| archive-date = 23 February 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170223071341/https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-is-right-swedens-embrace-of-refugees-isnt-working-1487807010| url-status = live}}</ref> However, following the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]] the SD supported accepting and accommodating Ukrainian refugees in Sweden.<ref name="rmx.news">{{cite web |url=https://rmx.news/crime/sweden-democrats-want-to-stop-asylum-for-everyone-except-ukrainians/ |title=Sweden Democrats want to stop asylum for everyone except Ukrainians |date=14 March 2022 |access-date=19 September 2022 |archive-date=17 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220917115248/https://rmx.news/crime/sweden-democrats-want-to-stop-asylum-for-everyone-except-ukrainians/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Ahead of the [[2022 Swedish general election]], the party campaigned to tighten the rules in the Swedish Aliens Act ({{interlanguage link|Utlänningslagen|sv}}) to the strictest possible level within European law and encourage voluntary [[remigration]] of asylum seekers and immigrants who are economically inactive or remain culturally unassimilated.<ref name="auto1"/>

The SD also wants European governments to construct a security wall along the European border with Turkey in response to illegal immigration, terrorism and incursions by the [[Grey Wolves (organization)|Grey Wolves]] into Greece. It also calls on the Europe Union to commonly adopt a migration system based on the [[Operation Sovereign Borders|Australian model]] to prevent human trafficking across the Mediterranean which the party states enables illegal immigrants and terrorists to reach Sweden.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nyheteridag.se/charlie-weimers-sd-eu-behover-bygga-murar-mot-erdogans-turkiet/|title=Charlie Weimers (SD): EU behöver bygga murar mot Erdogans Turkiet|date=4 March 2020|access-date=19 February 2021|archive-date=8 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108142845/https://nyheteridag.se/charlie-weimers-sd-eu-behover-bygga-murar-mot-erdogans-turkiet/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.neweurope.eu/article/bureaucratic-hubris-the-commissions-2020-2027-integration-action-plan-is-set-to-replicate-swedens-failure/|title=Bureaucratic hubris: The Commission's 2020–2027 integration action plan is set to replicate Sweden's failure|first=Nicholas|last=Waller|date=17 February 2021|access-date=19 February 2021|archive-date=19 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219113648/https://www.neweurope.eu/article/bureaucratic-hubris-the-commissions-2020-2027-integration-action-plan-is-set-to-replicate-swedens-failure|url-status=dead}}</ref> SD calls for compulsory measures for immigrants to be employed, live and work in Sweden for at least ten years, learn the [[Swedish language]], go through a mandatory cultural assimilation program, and be subject to a language and social skills test before becoming eligible for Swedish citizenship.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thelocal.se/20150701/swedish-should-be-spoken-in-the-workplace|title=Swedish should be spoken in Sweden|work=thelocal|access-date=13 March 2020|language=en|archive-date=18 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918145730/http://www.thelocal.se/20150701/swedish-should-be-spoken-in-the-workplace|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto1"/> The party also supports increased spending on border patrol forces, [[zero tolerance]] laws on illegal immigration and foreign-born criminals, repatriations of [[Schengen Area]] migrants who move to Sweden to make a living from street begging, changes in the law to enable the government to strip foreign-born Swedish nationals of their citizenship if found guilty of a crime, penalties against employers who use foreign and undocumented labor to circumvent Swedish working conditions and stricter laws against family migration.<ref name="auto1"/>

In recent years, the SD{{nbsp}}has tried to approach the immigration policies of the [[Danish People's Party]], which from 2001 to 2011 provided parliamentary support for the former Danish centre-right governments in return for a tightening of Danish immigration policies and stricter naturalisation laws.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.klassekampen.no/46003/article/item/null |title=Vil kopiere Dansk Folkeparti |publisher=Klassekampen |date=21 May 2007 |access-date=8 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929232041/http://www.klassekampen.no/46003/article/item/null |archive-date=29 September 2011 }}</ref> Following the [[2022 Swedish general election]], the Sweden Democrats achieved this objective under the [[Tidö Agreement]] with the centre-right Moderate, Christian Democrat and Liberal Party coalition government.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thelocal.se/20221121/explained-is-sweden-planning-to-withdraw-permanent-residency |title=EXPLAINED: What do we know about Sweden's plans to withdraw permanent residency? |date=21 November 2022 |access-date=28 October 2023 |archive-date=28 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028223033/https://www.thelocal.se/20221121/explained-is-sweden-planning-to-withdraw-permanent-residency |url-status=live }}</ref> In exchange for SD parliamentary support, the Swedish government conceded to some of the SD's immigration policy demands on requirements for obtaining Swedish citizenship and expanding the deportation circumstances for foreign-born residents and asylum seekers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://behorizon.org/dissecting-the-new-swedish-migration-policy/ |title=Dissecting the New Swedish Migration Policy |date=14 November 2022 |access-date=28 October 2023 |archive-date=28 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231028223033/https://behorizon.org/dissecting-the-new-swedish-migration-policy/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Following scenes of people in Swedish cities celebrating the [[October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel]], the SD leadership stated that those who praised the attack should be expelled from the country and that the Tidö Agreement clause on deporting non-citizens on grounds of poor character and not just criminal convictions should be used against those who support [[Hamas]]. SD also states that Swedes of foreign backgrounds who leave the country to join legally designated terrorist groups should be stripped of their citizenship or residency and denied re-entry into the country.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/a/zE2lqb/akesson-borde-kunna-utvisa-de-som-hyllar-hamas |title=Åkesson: Should be able to deport those who praise Hamas |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |date=10 October 2023 |access-date=25 October 2023 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026194555/https://www.svd.se/a/zE2lqb/akesson-borde-kunna-utvisa-de-som-hyllar-hamas |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Society and crime ===
====Family policy====
The Sweden Democrats consider children raised in a [[nuclear family]] as the preferred option for the child's development. Those not raised by their biological parents should have the right to associate with or at least find out who they were. SD has been critical of adoption and [[artificial insemination]] for same-sex couples and [[Polyamory|polyamorous]] people.<ref>{{cite web |last=Voss |first=Jon |date=2015-11-28 |title=SD behåller krav på förbud för adoption och insemination |url=https://www.qx.se/samhalle/30016/sd-behaller-krav-pa-forbud-for-adoption-och-insemination/ |access-date=16 January 2021 |website=[[QX (magazine)|QX]] |language=sv-SE |archive-date=22 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122235016/https://www.qx.se/samhalle/30016/sd-behaller-krav-pa-forbud-for-adoption-och-insemination/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

The party also calls for a ban on child, polygamous and [[forced marriage]]s, as well as harsher penalties for [[Honor killing|honor violence]]. It also supports a zero-tolerance stance against [[female genital mutilation]] within Sweden and abroad, and for perpetrators to be prosecuted or if necessary deported.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/familjepolitik/|title=Familjepolitik|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501050653/https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/familjepolitik/|archive-date=1 May 2022|url-status=dead}}</ref> SD also wants certain restrictions on [[Circumcision|male circumcision]], calling for a ban on minors unless its for medical reasons. The party says that while it does support male circumcision for religious reasons, it should be performed at the age of consent and the state should not fund it through the healthcare system.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sd.se/ |title=Det här vill vi |access-date=2024-02-18 |archive-date=8 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908210848/https://sd.se/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Canhasi |first1=Britt-Mari |last2=Yurkovskiy |first2=Leonid |date=2021-03-01 |title=SD-politiker om omskärelse: Ge barn rätt till sin egen kropp |trans-title=SD politicians about circumcision: Give children right to their own body |url=https://www.altinget.se/artikel/sd-politiker-om-omskarelse-ge-barn-ratt-till-sin-egen-kropp |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=Altinget.se |archive-date=10 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910222842/https://www.altinget.se/artikel/sd-politiker-om-omskarelse-ge-barn-ratt-till-sin-egen-kropp |url-status=live }}</ref>

SD supports [[abortion]] being legal in Sweden and free access to abortions up to the legal limit in Sweden which is 22 weeks since 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lantz |first=Daniel |date=2022-07-22 |title=SD står starkt bakom svensk abortlagstiftning |url=https://www.sdkvinnor.se/sd-star-starkt-bakom-svensk-abortlagstiftning/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=SD-kvinnor |language=sv-SE}}</ref>

==== LGBT rights ====
The party today fully supports legalization of [[same-sex marriage]] and [[civil union]]s for gay couples but believes the ultimate decision to perform a wedding ceremony should be decided by the individual religious institution rather than the state.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jämställdhetspolitik|url=https://sd.se/var-politik/jamstalldhetspolitik/|website=Sd.se|access-date=28 July 2015|language=sv|archive-date=10 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210190603/https://sd.se/var-politik/jamstalldhetspolitik/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

SD previously opposed government sanctioned adoption to single people and same-sex couples unless the adopting party are close relatives or already have a close relationship with the child, but has since shifted its stance to permitting [[same-sex adoption]] and supports privately funded insemination for single or gay parents. Historically, members of SD have criticized a so-called "[[Gay Mafia|Homosex Lobby]]" but the party has since changed and moderated its position on LGBT in Swedish society. Party leader Jimmie Åkesson has expressed concerns that what he describes as the gradual [[Spread of Islam|Islamisation]] of Sweden will eventually lead to the rights of [[Sexual minority|sexual minorities]] being violated.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brandel |first1=Tobias |date=28 July 2010 |title=SD siktar in sig på hbt-röster |trans-title=SD targets LGBT voices |url=http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/sd-siktar-in-sig-pa-hbt-roster_5054837.svd |url-access=subscription |access-date=24 February 2015 |work=[[Svenska Dagbladet]] |language=sv |archive-date=18 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141118043113/http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/sd-siktar-in-sig-pa-hbt-roster_5054837.svd |url-status=live }}</ref>

Throughout the early 2000s, ''SD-Kuriren'' (the official SD party newspaper) regularly published articles criticizing LGBT events and describing homosexuality as "perversion", before moderating itself alongside a shift in party ideology.<ref>{{cite web |last=Söder |first=Björn |author-link=Björn Söder |date=3 August 2007 |title=Präster från Svenska Kyrkan deltar i homosexevenemang |trans-title=Priests from the Church of Sweden participates in gay sex event |url=http://www.sdkuriren.se/blog/index.php/soder/2007/08/03/praster_fran_svenska_kyrkan_deltar_pa_ho |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109003220/http://www.sdkuriren.se/blog/index.php/soder/2007/08/03/praster_fran_svenska_kyrkan_deltar_pa_ho<!--Manually retrieved archive--> |archive-date=9 November 2007 |access-date=9 November 2010 |publisher=SD-Kuriren |language=sv}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Söder |first=Björn |author-link=Björn Söder |date=3 August 2007 |title=Homosexlobbyn kräver, och homosexlobbyn får |trans-title=The gay sex lobby demands, and the gay sex lobby receives |url=http://www.sdkuriren.se/blog/index.php/soder/2007/08/03/homosexlobbyn_kraver_och_homosexlobbyn_f |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109003023/http://www.sdkuriren.se/blog/index.php/soder/2007/08/03/homosexlobbyn_kraver_och_homosexlobbyn_f<!--Manually retrieved archive--> |archive-date=9 November 2007 |access-date=9 November 2010 |publisher=SD-Kuriren |language=sv}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Söder |first=Björn |author-link=Björn Söder |date=5 August 2007 |title=Kulmen nådd på perversiteterna |trans-title=The peak of the perversions reached |url=http://www.sdkuriren.se/blog/index.php/soder/2007/08/05/kulmen_nadd_pa_perversiteterna |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109003047/http://www.sdkuriren.se/blog/index.php/soder/2007/08/05/kulmen_nadd_pa_perversiteterna<!--Manually retrieved archive--> |archive-date=9 November 2007 |access-date=9 November 2010 |publisher=SD-Kuriren |language=sv}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Söder |first=Björn |author-link=Björn Söder |date=5 August 2007 |title=Att kritisera det okritiserbara |trans-title=To criticise the uncriticisable |url=http://www.sdkuriren.se/blog/index.php/soder/2007/08/05/att_kritisera_det_okritiserbara |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109003255/http://www.sdkuriren.se/blog/index.php/soder/2007/08/05/att_kritisera_det_okritiserbara<!--Manually retrieved archive--> |archive-date=9 November 2007 |access-date=9 November 2010 |publisher=SD-Kuriren |language=sv}}</ref> A blog post claiming [[Stockholm Pride]] sexualised young children and [[Societal attitudes toward homosexuality#Association with child sexual abuse and pedophilia|equating homosexuality with pedophilia]] titled {{Lang|sv|Botten måste snart vara nådd}} (Soon enough we'll hit rock bottom) was published by SD Party secretary [[Björn Söder]] on 1 August 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sdkuriren.se/blog/index.php/soder/2007/08/01/botten_maste_snart_vara_nadd|title=Botten måste snart vara nådd|publisher=SD-Kuriren|date=1 August 2007|access-date=9 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109002951/http://www.sdkuriren.se/blog/index.php/soder/2007/08/01/botten_maste_snart_vara_nadd<!--Manually retrieved archive-->|archive-date=9 November 2007|language=sv}}</ref> The post was widely criticised in the Swedish media as an attack on LGBT people.<ref>{{cite news |date=5 August 2007 |title=Hat-attacken mot Sveriges homosexuella |trans-title=The hateful attack against Sweden's homosexuals |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/l1nya9/hat-attacken-mot-sveriges-homosexuella |access-date=16 August 2010 |newspaper=Aftonbladet |language=sv |archive-date=14 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814114704/https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/l1nya9/hat-attacken-mot-sveriges-homosexuella |url-status=live }}</ref>

An unofficial [[pride parade]] called Pride Järva was organised by SD member and former party magazine editor Jan Sjunnesson in the Stockholm suburbs of [[Tensta]] and [[Husby, Stockholm|Husby]], two areas with large immigrant populations.<ref>{{cite news |title=Swedish Nationalists Plan Gay 'Pride' March Through Muslim Areas of Stockholm |url=https://www.haaretz.com/rightist-swedes-plan-gay-march-through-muslim-areas-of-stockholm-1.5378770 |access-date=27 January 2019 |work=Haaretz |date=25 July 2015 |language=en}}</ref> The event was disavowed by the official Stockholm Pride organisation and the [[Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights]]; in a joint statement both organisations called Sjunnesson "a person who's spreading hatred towards Muslims on social media [and] who's not supporting LGBT rights".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Naib |first1=Fatima |title=Sweden far-right plans gay parade in mainly Muslim area |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/sweden-farright-plans-gay-pride-muslim-area-lgbt-150728180328656.html |access-date=27 January 2019 |work=Al Jazeera |date=28 July 2015 |archive-date=28 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128082846/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/sweden-farright-plans-gay-pride-muslim-area-lgbt-150728180328656.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Montelius |first1=Martina |title=Homonationalism – det rosa kriget |url=https://www.expressen.se/kultur/homonationalism--det-rosa-kriget/ |access-date=27 January 2019 |work=Expressen |date=14 April 2017 |language=sv |archive-date=28 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128082748/https://www.expressen.se/kultur/homonationalism--det-rosa-kriget/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Approximately 30 people participated in Pride Järva, with a larger amount of LGBT and heterosexual anti-racist [[counter-protest]]ors arriving to oppose them.<ref name="vice jarva pride">{{cite news |last1=Pérez Borjas |first1=Weronika |title=Rainbows and Racism Marched Together in Sweden During LGBT Pride Week |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/sweden-jarva-pride-parade-immigration-protest/ |access-date=27 January 2019 |work=Vice |date=30 July 2016 |archive-date=28 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128082730/https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/pp4k58/sweden-jarva-pride-parade-immigration-protest |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2014, the official [[Stockholm Pride]] voted to ban the SD from participating that year which was met with criticism from both within the party and from some opposition politicians who argued it was undemocratic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thelocal.se/20140729/sweden-democrats-barred-from-stockholm-pride|title=Stockholm Pride bars Sweden Democrats|date=29 July 2014 |access-date=20 September 2023|archive-date=4 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104012326/https://www.thelocal.se/20140729/sweden-democrats-barred-from-stockholm-pride|url-status=live}}</ref>

In recent years, the SD has shifted its stance to being more supportive of [[LGBT rights by country or territory#Northern Europe|LGBT rights]] and same-sex parenting by updating and expanding its policies regarding LGBT issues. In 2010, SD leader Jimmie Åkesson and party vice-president [[Carina Ståhl Herrstedt]] published an article apologizing for past [[homophobic]] statements made by party members and arguing that mass immigration risked eroding the rights of Sweden's gay community.<ref>[http://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/debattamnen/jamstalldhet/article6866464.ab Aftonbladet, SD – ett parti för hbt-personer], publicerad 30 mars 2010</ref> In its current platform, the SD states "everyone must be treated equally, regardless of sexual orientation, and discrimination must be combated".<ref name="auto11">{{Cite web|url=https://sd.se/|title=Sveriges snabbast växande folkrörelse|website=Sverigedemokraterna|access-date=28 July 2015|archive-date=8 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908210848/https://sd.se/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sd.se/our-politics/hbtq-personers-psykiska-halsa/|title=HBTQ personers psykiska hälsa|access-date=22 December 2020|archive-date=6 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806150616/https://sd.se/our-politics/hbtq-personers-psykiska-halsa/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In a 2018 interview, SD member of the Riksdag and gender-equality spokesperson [[Paula Bieler]] stated that homophobes "are not welcome in our party".<ref>{{cite news |title=Europe's anti-immigrant parties are becoming more gay-friendly, partly as a way to bash Muslim immigrants |url=https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/07/05/europes-anti-immigrant-parties-are-becoming-more-gay-friendly |access-date=27 January 2019 |newspaper=The Economist |date=5 July 2018 |quote=Paula Bieler, gender-equality spokesperson of the xenophobic Sweden Democrats, says homophobes 'are not welcome in our party'. |archive-date=28 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128030324/https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/07/05/europes-anti-immigrant-parties-are-becoming-more-gay-friendly |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 2018, the SD party program was updated to support same-sex adoption and parenting.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.svd.se/a/EonM0o/utvecklat-mina-varderingar-om-samkonad-adoption |title="Utvecklat mina värderingar om samkönad adoption" |work=Svenska Dagbladet |date=7 July 2018 |access-date=2025-01-13 |last1=Cederholm |first1=Stina }}</ref> In 2025, SD proposed constructing a statue in [[Örebro]], dedicated to [[Muhsin Hendricks]], the world’s first openly gay imam, who had been shot dead in his car in South Africa, to honour his work for the LGBTQI movement, as well as constructing a statue in [[Rinkeby]] to honour the rights of LGBTQI people in the area.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lundkvist |first=Oscar |date=2025-04-08 |title=Upprätta ett HBT-monument i Vivalla |url=https://www.sd.se/orebro/uppratta-ett-hbt-monument-i-vivalla/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=SD Örebro |language=sv-SE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Järva |first=Nyhetsbyrån |date=2025-01-15 |title=Här vill SD uppföra ett HBTQ-monument |url=https://www.nyhetsbyranjarva.se/har-vill-sd-uppfora-ett-hbtq-monument/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=Nyhetsbyrån Järva |language=sv-SE}}</ref>

The SD supports [[gender-affirming surgery]] as long as the motive behind it is mental wellbeing and permission is given by a medical professional.<ref>{{cite web |title=HBTQ personers psykiska hälsa |url=https://sd.se/our-politics/hbtq-personers-psykiska-halsa/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806150616/https://sd.se/our-politics/hbtq-personers-psykiska-halsa/ |archive-date=6 August 2021 |access-date=3 May 2020 |website=sd.se |publisher=Sweden democrats |language=sv |quote=För att genomgå en fysisk könskorrigering ska kravet vara psykisk stabilitet.}}</ref>

==== Gender equality ====
SD opposes any "negative or positive special treatment on the basis of gender, age, sexual orientation, nationality or ethnic origin" in the labour market.<ref name=":3">{{cite web|title=A-Ö|url=https://sd.se/a-o/|access-date=16 January 2021|website=Sverigedemokraterna|language=sv-SE|archive-date=1 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101041553/https://sd.se/a-o/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The party maintains that, collectively, there are biological differences between men and women, some of which that cannot be "observed with the naked eye". Perceived differences between men and women in regards to preference, behaviour and life choices exist due to each individual's choices and does not necessarily have to be "problematic, the result of discrimination nor the result of an oppressive gender power structure".<ref name=":3" />

==== Church policies ====
The party believes that the [[Church of Sweden]] should have a special position in Swedish society. In order to protect Swedish cultural heritage, members of the party want to protect the Lutheran tradition in the church elections and counteract secular party-political control of the Swedish Church. SD supports interfaith dialogue but opposes Qur'an recitals or imams delivering Islamic services in churches which the SD claims to be part of "Islamizing Swedish society".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://expo.se/nyhet/sd-kyrkan-ska-missionera-i-invandrartata-omraden/ |title=SD: "Kyrkan ska missionera i invandrartäta områden" |date=13 September 2013 |access-date=2025-01-16}}</ref> The SD previously called for the Church of Sweden to be reinstated as a [[state church]] but no longer supports this policy, however they continue to support holidays in connection with religious occasions to only include traditionally Swedish and Christian holidays with party leader Jimmie Åkesson stating in a 2014 interview that he wants to protect Christianity as a "system of norms".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dagen.se/dokument/2014/07/18/jimmie-akesson-gud-ar-en-uppsattning-normer-och-varderingar/ |title=Jimmie Åkesson: Gud är en uppsättning normer och värderingar |date=18 July 2014 |access-date=2025-01-16}}</ref> In Swedish Church Assembly election campaigns, the SD has campaigned on the issue of Christians who are subjected to persecution and hate crimes in Sweden and abroad.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dagen.se/dokument/2014/07/18/jimmie-akesson-gud-ar-en-uppsattning-normer-och-varderingar/ |title=Jimmie Åkesson: Gud är en uppsättning normer och värderingar |date=18 July 2014 |access-date=2025-01-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ratatosk.sd.se/sd/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/30183140/Valplattform-kyrkovalet-2021.pdf |title=Kyrkopolitisk valplattform 2021|access-date=2025-01-16}}</ref>

==== Law and order and security ====
The Sweden Democrats support generally increased [[Minimum sentence|minimum sentences]] as well as increased resources and personnel for the [[Swedish Police Authority|police]]. SD wishes to instate the possibility of [[Life imprisonment|life imprisonment without parole]] for the worst crimes and to repatriate foreign citizens found guilty of serious crimes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Straff|url=https://sd.se/our-politics/straff/|access-date=15 January 2021|website=Sverigedemokraterna|language=sv-SE|archive-date=21 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121231313/https://sd.se/our-politics/straff/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Kriminalpolitik|url=https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/kriminalpolitik/|access-date=15 January 2021|website=Sverigedemokraterna|language=sv-SE|archive-date=22 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122221348/https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/kriminalpolitik/|url-status=dead}}</ref> SD also wants to establish a public register of individuals convicted of certain sexual crimes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jämställdhetspolitik|url=https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/jamstalldhetspolitik/|access-date=15 January 2021|website=Sverigedemokraterna|language=sv-SE|archive-date=7 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507211527/https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/jamstalldhetspolitik/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The party also supports increased surveillance of those known to be involved in criminal gangs and terrorism. SD argues for a zero-tolerance law for people who physically attack police officers and emergency workers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/brott-och-straff/ |title=Tougher on the gangs |access-date=2024-10-03}}</ref>

SD previously supported the reinstatement of [[capital punishment]] before dropping it as an official policy after the party program was updated in 1998, although individuals within the party continue to support the death penalty for serious crimes such as murder and [[infanticide]] and have called for [[chemical castration]] of convicted child sexual abusers.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Kotanen Hallbeck |first1=Linda |last2=Lindberg |first2=Linda |author-link2=Linda Lindberg |last3=Nordengrip |first3=Caroline |author-link3=Caroline Nordengrip |date=2021-01-09 |title=Debatt: 'Skydda alltid våra barn' |trans-title=Debate: "Always protect our children" |url=https://www.barometern.se/debatt/skydda-alltid-vara-barn-98f74722/ |access-date=2024-07-29 |website=[[Barometern]] |language=sv}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Nelson |first=Fraser |date=8 September 2018 |title=Are the Sweden Democrats far-right? Jimmie Åkesson interviewed |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/are-the-sweden-democrats-far-right-jimmie-akesson-interviewed |website=[[The Spectator]] |access-date=22 December 2020 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121215406/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/are-the-sweden-democrats-far-right-jimmie-akesson-interviewed |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Far-right member motions death penalty |url=https://www.thelocal.se/20091017/22712 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627050333/https://www.thelocal.se/20091017/22712 |archive-date=27 June 2019 |website=[[The Local]]}}</ref>

The SD opposes allowing Swedish citizens who joined [[ISIS]] to return to Sweden and argues that anyone who joins a foreign terrorist group should be denied state funded assistance. In 2023, SD also stated that Swedes who have travelled to the [[Gaza Strip]] to support Hamas should be banned from reentering the country.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.svd.se/a/76av7K/akesson-vi-har-krig-pa-gatorna |title=Åkesson: Vi behöver riva moskéer i Sverige |work=Svenska Dagbladet |date=25 November 2023 |access-date=2025-02-03 |last1=Svahn/Tt |first1=Niklas }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Russell |first=Dave |date=21 March 2019 |title=Staffanstorp votes to strip ISIS returnees of assistance |url=https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/7181036 |newspaper=[[Sveriges Radio]] |access-date=26 February 2021 |archive-date=8 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208012555/https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/7181036 |url-status=live }}</ref> SD has also emphasised a desire to crack down on abuses and crimes of which the elderly are particular targets.<ref name=":9">[https://web.archive.org/web/20130818021933/https://sverigedemokraterna.se/vara-asikter/vara-viktigaste-fragor/en-trygg-och-vardig-alderdom/ En trygg och värdig ålderdom]. ''sverigedemokraterna.se''.</ref>

In 2025, the SD supported passing stricter ownership regulations on [[AR-15]] rifles following the [[2025 Risbergska school shooting]] although some senior party spokespeople expressed opposition to amending gun ownership laws citing the impact it could have on farmers and hunters.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3lpp9we4jo |title=Sweden plans tighter gun laws after deadly school shooting |access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/07/sweden-to-tighten-gun-laws-in-wake-of-orebro-mass-shooting|title=Sweden plans to tighten gun laws in wake of Örebro mass shooting |access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref>

=== Economy ===
The Sweden Democrats have described themselves as supporters of the [[Welfare in Sweden|Swedish welfare state]], [[Labor rights|labour rights]] and the [[public sector]], but argue that welfare should be restricted to Swedish citizens and permanent residents.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sweden.se/society/political-parties-in-sweden/|title=Political parties in Sweden|date=28 April 2017|website=sweden.se|access-date=19 February 2021|archive-date=3 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903125816/https://sweden.se/society/political-parties-in-sweden/|url-status=live}}</ref> The party argues that foreign-born nationals must show proof of legal residence, paid taxes and financial self-support for a certain period to become eligible for welfare.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/en-strikt-invandringspolitik/|title=En strikt Invandringspolitik|website=Sverigedemokraterna}}</ref> In its platform, the SD claims that its economic policies are neither left or right-wing, but designed to improve conditions for [[Small and medium-sized business|small and medium-sized companies]], [[self-employed]] citizens and [[Entrepreneurship|entrepreneurs]] to boost employment and stimulate the economy, as opposed to what it describes as "constructed jobs" created by the state to reduce unemployment but hold no long term benefit for the Swedish economy or career paths for the people who work them. SD wants to abolish the Swedish Employment Service in its current form and replace it with a new authority for the supervision and close regulation of private employment services to ensure large corporations do not exploit or undercut Swedish workers. The party supports affordable and free access to public healthcare for Swedish nationals.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/arbetsmarknadspolitik/|title=Arbetsmarknadspolitik|language=sv|access-date=19 February 2021|archive-date=2 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402014802/https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/arbetsmarknadspolitik/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

SD supports certain [[free trade]] conditions but believe Sweden must exit or revise trade agreements that pose a threat to Sweden's sovereignty and Swedish workers. The party favours certain measures of [[Protectionism|economic protectionism]] and support state-ownership of companies that operate Swedish mines, agricultural land and produce energy or defense equipment. However, SD also support abolishing [[inheritance tax]] and reducing [[property tax]].<ref name="auto13"/> Since the 2010s, the SD has been critical of Chinese government involvement in infrastructure projects and trade deals with Sweden.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.altinget.se/sakerhet/artikel/aspling-sd-stoppa-investering-i-bank-styrd-av-kinesiska-staten|title=Aspling (SD): Stoppa investering i bank styrd av kinesiska staten|date=24 October 2019|website=Säkerhet|access-date=3 February 2024|archive-date=3 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203024641/https://www.altinget.se/sakerhet/artikel/aspling-sd-stoppa-investering-i-bank-styrd-av-kinesiska-staten|url-status=live}}</ref> SD wishes to lower the tax rate for the elderly, as well as increase subsidised housing for the elderly.<ref name=":9" /> SD also wishes to allocate additional resources to municipalities in order to provide seniors with greater food assistance and, in general, improve their quality of life.<ref name=":9" /> 

Political author Anders Backlund described the party as "economically centrist", leaning towards [[economic nationalism]] (in contrast to the other Swedish conservative parties who tend to favour open free markets and global cosmopolitan philosophies) and supporting a [[Mixed economy|mixed market economy]] combining centre-left and centre-right ideas, as well as promoting "[[Welfare chauvinism|welfare chauvinist]]" policies which blend national-populism with socio-economics.<ref>{{cite thesis|author=Anders Backlund|title=The Sweden Democrats in Political Space|url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A625421&dswid=-8611|location=[[Södertörn University]]|degree=MA|date=Spring 2011|access-date=10 January 2023|archive-date=10 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110163300/http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:625421&dswid=-8611|url-status=live}}</ref> According to political scientist Johan Martinsson: "In economic terms, the party is more centrist and pragmatic, with a mixture of left and right-wing proposals".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Angelica Diehn |first=Sonya |date=13 September 2022 |title=Sweden's election: The astonishing rise of the right-wing Sweden Democrats |url=https://www.dw.com/en/swedens-election-the-astonishing-rise-of-the-right-wing-sweden-democrats/a-63100694 |access-date=14 September 2022 |website=DW.com |archive-date=14 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914020700/https://www.dw.com/en/swedens-election-the-astonishing-rise-of-the-right-wing-sweden-democrats/a-63100694 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Environment ===
The party argues that, while Sweden should maintain its "active role in global climate cooperation", other countries should reduce their emissions, as it believes Sweden to already be doing enough on that front.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Keating |first=Dave |date=2017-06-16 |title=Sweden to end net carbon emissions by 2045 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-to-end-net-carbon-emissions-by-2045/a-39280147 |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=[[Deutsche Welle]] |language=en |archive-date=30 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130083650/https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-to-end-net-carbon-emissions-by-2045/a-39280147 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":8" /> The party opposed the [[Paris Agreement|Paris agreement]],<ref name=":8">{{Cite news |last=Lund |first=Jörgen |date=17 October 2016 |title=Därför röstade SD nej till Parisavtalet |trans-title=That's why SD voted no to the Paris agreement |url=https://www.etc.se/inrikes/darfor-rostade-sd-nej-till-parisavtalet |access-date=19 June 2017 |work=ETC |language=sv |archive-date=20 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020121254/https://www.etc.se/inrikes/darfor-rostade-sd-nej-till-parisavtalet |url-status=live }}</ref> and advocates keeping [[Nuclear power in Sweden|nuclear power plants]] as a prominent energy source in Sweden,<ref>{{cite web |last=Widerberg |first=Göran |date=13 August 2014 |title=Så vill partierna lösa energifrågan |trans-title=How the parties wants to solve the energy conundrum |url=http://da.se/2014/08/sa-vill-partierna-losa-energifragan/ |access-date=19 June 2017 |website=[[Dagens Arbete]] |language=sv-SE |archive-date=11 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611044122/http://da.se/2014/08/sa-vill-partierna-losa-energifragan/ |url-status=live }}</ref> believing it to be an efficient way to [[Climate change mitigation|mitigate climate change]]. They also advocate investing in climate research internationally and funding climate action on a global scale.<ref name="auto11"/>{{Better source needed|reason=Source is not very specific or unbiased|date=September 2024}}

==== Agriculture and forestry ====
SD supports creating a specialist law enforcement branch for animal welfare and call for stricter penalties against animal cruelty. In 2017, the SD members of the Riksdag Justice Committee filed a motion calling for extended prison sentences for those found guilty of animal abuse which was ultimately supported by the other parties.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/motion/skarpta-straff-for-djurplageri-_h5022384/ |title=Skärpta straff för djurplågeri |access-date=2025-01-16}}</ref> The party opposes EU influence over domestic laws on hunting, farming and forestry within Sweden, calling for such policies to be decided upon by rural Swedes instead of Brussels. SD is also critical of non-stun animal slaughter and want to ban the import of goods that contradict Swedish animal welfare legislation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/jaktpolitik/ |title=Beslut om svensk jakt ska fattas i Sverige|access-date=2025-01-16}}</ref>

=== Foreign policy ===
==== Defense ====
SD wants to increase the number of [[Swedish Army]] brigades to seven from 2021's two.<ref name=":3" /> The party has stated that it would seek to raise Sweden's [[defense spending]] to 2–2.5% of GDP.<ref name="newsnowfinland.fi" /><ref name=":3" />

The party supports closer military cooperation with neighboring [[Nordic countries]] and previously opposed Swedish membership of [[NATO]], instead calling for an alignment without full membership.<ref name="newsnowfinland.fi">{{citation| url = https://newsnowfinland.fi/finland-international/swedens-right-wing-more-finland-less-nato| website = newsnowfinland| title = Sweden's Right Wing: More Finland, Less NATO| date = 8 September 2018| access-date = 29 February 2020| archive-date = 29 February 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200229152113/https://newsnowfinland.fi/finland-international/swedens-right-wing-more-finland-less-nato| url-status = dead}}</ref> However, following the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] the SD leadership announced it would consider changing its policy to endorse NATO membership and support joining if [[Finland]] also applied for NATO membership.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-democrats-leader-wants-party-change-nato-membership-if-finland-applies-2022-04-09/ |title=Sweden Democrats leader wants party to change on NATO membership if Finland applies to join alliance |publisher=Reuters |date=9 April 2022 |access-date=14 June 2022 |archive-date=9 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509013708/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-democrats-leader-wants-party-change-nato-membership-if-finland-applies-2022-04-09/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It subsequently voted in favor for NATO membership in the Riksdag.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Omröstning: betänkande 2022/23:UU16 Sveriges medlemskap i Nato, förslagspunkt 3 (Omröstning 2022/23:UU16 Sveriges medlemskap i Nato) |url=https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/omrostning/omrostning-betankande-202223uu16-sveriges_ha19uu16p3/ |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=www.riksdagen.se |language=sv}}</ref> 

==== European Union ====
The Sweden Democrats support close political co-operation within the [[Nordic countries|Nordic sphere]], but are [[Euroscepticism|eurosceptic]] and against further [[European integration|EU integration]] and cession of Swedish sovereignty to the [[European Union]].<ref name="auto2">{{cite web |title=Rösta SD i årets Europaparlamentsval |trans-title=Vote SD in this year's election to the European Parliament |url=https://eu.sd.se/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125053126/https://eu.sd.se/ |archive-date=25 November 2020 |access-date=22 December 2020 |website=Sverigdemokraterna}}</ref> The party states that it supports European political and economic co-operation to secure trade and combat cross-border organized crime, illegal immigration, [[Islamism]], terrorism and environmental challenges but strongly opposes creating an [[Common Security and Defence Policy|EU army]] or policies that could lead to the creation of a [[Federal Europe|Federal European Superstate]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sd.se/vad-vi-vill/generell-eu-politik/ |title=Mitt Europa bygger murar |access-date=2025-01-06}}</ref><ref name="auto8">{{Citation |last1=Radosevich |first1=Frank |title=Sweden Democrat MEP candidate: More money for EU border system |date=9 May 2018 |newspaper=[[Sveriges Radio]] |url=https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=7214581 |access-date=29 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229152116/https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=7214581 |archive-date=29 February 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto2"/> The party generally opposes all EU regulation over Swedish tax, pensions, environmental and domestic affairs and calls for the national sovereignty and cultural identity of European nations to be prioritized above the EU's political ambitions.<ref>{{cite web |last=Landahl |first=Eva |title=Linda Lindberg (SD) – Valkompass EU-valet |url=https://valkompassen.svt.se/eu-2019/kandidat/linda-lindberg/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626150355/https://valkompass.svt.se/eu-2019/kandidat/linda-lindberg/ |archive-date=2022-06-26 |website=valkompassen.svt.se}}</ref> SD rejects joining the [[Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union|Economic and Monetary Union]] by opposing the [[Euro]] currency and favors keeping the [[Swedish krona|krona]]. They also seek to reduce Swedish financial contributions to Brussels, end Swedish participation in bailouts for other EU member states, renegotiate Swedish membership of the [[Schengen Agreement]] and opt-out of common asylum agreements, protect freedom of speech and the [[Right to Internet access|free access to the internet]] from EU copyright bills, and are against the [[accession of Turkey to the European Union]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Jacobsen |first=Henriette |title=Socialists win by landslide in Sweden as voters punish governing parties |date=26 May 2014 |newspaper=[[EurActiv]] |url=http://www.euractiv.com/sections/eu-elections-2014/socialists-win-landslide-sweden-voters-punish-governing-parties-302364 |access-date=27 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527024417/http://www.euractiv.com/sections/eu-elections-2014/socialists-win-landslide-sweden-voters-punish-governing-parties-302364 |archive-date=27 May 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto2"/> 

The party has called for Sweden to renegotiate its membership of the EU and seeks an amendment to the Swedish constitution to make it mandatory that proposed EU treaties and financial transfers be first put to a public vote.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sverigedemokraternas Valplattform 2022 |trans-title=The Sweden Democrats' Election Platform 2022 |url=https://sd.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sverigedemokraternas-valplattform-2022-april.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813120040/https://sd.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sverigedemokraternas-valplattform-2022-april.pdf |archive-date=2022-08-13 |publisher=The Sweden Democrats}}</ref> The SD believes that if the EU cannot be reformed or attempts to transform itself into a Superstate, Sweden must immediately reconsider its membership via a referendum and prepare to leave the EU.<ref name="auto4"/> The SD's youth-wing, the [[Young Swedes SDU|Young Swedes]] ({{lang|sv|Ungsvenskarna}}), support a Swedish exit from the EU. In 2023, party leader Åkesson and SD European Union spokesman [[Charlie Weimers]] unveiled a new EU strategy with the objective of achieving better negotiation results, increasing Swedish influence and stopping the EU from gaining more power by creating a [[European Union Act 2011|referendum lock]] based on the [[United Kingdom|UK]] [[European Union Act 2011]] in the Riksdag to prevent transfer of powers to Brussels without a mandatory public vote. SD argues that a referendum lock should be used to prevent further [[EU expansion]] to include Turkey, Albania and Balkan states.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fokus.se/synvinkel/sa-kan-vi-hindra-att-eu-far-mer-makt/ |title=Så kan vi hindra att EU får mer makt |date=25 February 2021 |access-date=2025-01-06}}</ref> The SD has also said it wants a Swedish exit from the EU be made possible by removing all references to membership in the constitution.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Åkesson |first1=Jimmie |author-link=Jimmie Åkesson |last2=Weimers |first2=Charlie |author-link2=Charlie Weimers |date=15 May 2023 |title=SD: Hög tid för en ny svensk EU-strategi |trans-title=The SD: High time for a new Swedish EU strategy |url=https://www.svd.se/a/veb1QB/sd-hog-tid-for-en-ny-svensk-eu-strategi |newspaper=[[Svenska Dagbladet]] |department=Debate}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Weimers |first=Charlie |date=24 November 2023 |title=Sverige behöver en ny EU-strategi |trans-title=Sweden needs a new EU strategy |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3xcwa1KpL8 |website= |publisher=Charlie Weimers |via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=24 November 2023 |title=SD-topp öppnar för 'omedelbar Swexit' |trans-title=High ranking SD member open to "immediate Swexit" |url=https://www.tv4.se/artikel/6FOKidtWgITYqyzZJ3w5tA/sd-topp-oeppnar-foer-omedelbar-swexit |website=[[TV4 (Swedish TV channel)|TV4]] |agency=[[TT News Agency|TT]]}}</ref> In 2025, the Sweden Democrats stated that while they remain critical of the EU they believe EU funds are necessary and pragmatic in the current climate for European military rearmament, with the party citing the war in Ukraine and deteriorating security situation between the United States and Europe.<ref name=":5">{{cite web|title=Valuta|url=https://sd.se/our-politics/valuta/|publisher=Sverigedemokraterna|date=3 May 2020|access-date=14 September 2021|archive-date=14 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914202547/https://sd.se/our-politics/valuta/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":11" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/sverigedemokraterna-i-det-har-laget-behovs-eu |title=Sverigedemokraterna: I det här läget behövs EU |access-date=2025-04-14}}</ref>

==== Russia ====
The SD has taken a strongly pro-Ukraine position following the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russian invasion]] and has called on Sweden and Western governments to help the Ukrainian people defend their homeland.<ref name="rmx.news"/> Åkesson said in 2024 that SD stands fully behind Sweden’s support for Ukraine, and that; "We will continue to do so as long as the Ukrainian people fight their heroic fight."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wallberg/TT |first=Peter |date=2024-05-04 |title=Åkesson: SD står fullt ut bakom Ukrainastöd |url=https://www.svd.se/a/zAL29b/akesson-sd-star-fullt-ut-bakom-ukrainastod |access-date=2025-04-12 |work=Svenska Dagbladet |language=sv |issn=1101-2412}}</ref> He also said that sees no limit on how much the EU should send to Ukraine, adding that he supports a [[Ukraine–European Union relations|future Ukrainian membership in the EU]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Arenander |first=Inger |date=2024-05-31 |title=Åkesson: Tänker inte spela Putin i händerna |url=https://www.svd.se/a/gwWOB9/jimmie-akesson-sd-finns-ingen-ovre-grans-for-ukraina |access-date=2025-04-12 |work=Svenska Dagbladet |language=sv |issn=1101-2412}}</ref>

In 2022, an analysis of votes relating to Russia in the [[European Parliament]] found that the Sweden Democrats were the 10th-most critical party in the parliament having voted against Russian interests 93 percent of the time.<ref>{{cite web |title=EU-Russia: latest trends among EU political parties (measurement) |url=https://www.votewatch.eu/blog/eu-russia-latest-trends-among-eu-political-parties-measurement/,%20https://www.votewatch.eu/blog/eu-russia-latest-trends-among-eu-political-parties-measurement/ |website=VoteWatch |via=[[Google Drive]]}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Random Google Drive link, no publisher or name|date=September 2024}} The report found that among all Swedish parties the Sweden Democrats were the most critical of Russia.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/undersokning-i-europaparlamentet-sd-mest-putin-kritiska-av-svenska-partier|title=Undersökning i EU-parlamentet: SD mest Putin-kritiskt av svenska partier|first=Birgitta|last=Johansson|newspaper=Sveriges Radio|date=24 June 2022|via=sverigesradio.se|access-date=27 June 2022|archive-date=27 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627173244/https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/undersokning-i-europaparlamentet-sd-mest-putin-kritiska-av-svenska-partier|url-status=live}}</ref> Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the party got rid of members who had previously expressed support for Putin.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wingborg |first=Mats |date=2 March 2022 |title=Synen på Ryssland en akilleshäl för SD |trans-title=The view of Russia an Achilles' heel for SD |url=https://www.dagensarena.se/opinion/synen-pa-ryssland-en-akilleshal-sd/ |access-date=31 January 2024 |archive-date=1 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201135850/https://www.dagensarena.se/opinion/synen-pa-ryssland-en-akilleshal-sd/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Middle East ====
The Sweden Democrats are supportive of [[Israel]]. The party favors recognising [[Jerusalem]] as Israel's capital and proposes moving the [[List of diplomatic missions of Sweden|Swedish embassy]] there.<ref>{{Citation | url = https://www.timesofisrael.com/swedish-far-right-party-calls-to-recognize-jerusalem-as-israels-capital/ | newspaper = Times of Israel | title = Swedish far-right party calls to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital | date = September 2018 | access-date = 1 January 2020 | archive-date = 1 October 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191001161702/https://www.timesofisrael.com/swedish-far-right-party-calls-to-recognize-jerusalem-as-israels-capital/ | url-status = live }}</ref> A study by the ''European Coalition for Israel'' documented that SD had the most pro-Israel voting record of the Swedish parties in the European Parliament.<ref name="auto12">{{cite news |last=Harkov |first=Lahav |date=17 May 2023 |title=Swedish party with Nazi roots 'wants to be friends of Israel, Jews' |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-743376 |access-date=31 May 2024 |publisher=Jerusalem Post}}</ref> In 2021, the Israeli government stated that they did not maintain relations with the SD due to "its roots in Nazism"<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 October 2021 |title=Israels ambassadör: Vi vill inte ha några kontakter med SD |url=https://www.dn.se/sverige/israels-ambassador-vi-vill-inte-ha-nagra-kontakter-med-sd/ |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=[[Dagens Nyheter]] |language=sv |archive-date=20 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920121454/https://www.dn.se/sverige/israels-ambassador-vi-vill-inte-ha-nagra-kontakter-med-sd/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kahana |first=Ariel |date=2021-10-26 |title= |script-title=he:זעם בימין השבדי: השגריר הישראלי הודיע שיחרים מפלגה שתומכת בישראל |url=https://www.israelhayom.co.il/news/geopolitics/article/5312119 |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=[[Israel Hayom]] |language=he |archive-date=20 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920171933/https://www.israelhayom.co.il/news/geopolitics/article/5312119 |url-status=live }}</ref> but by 2023 had dropped its non-cooperation stance after SD representatives signed a document of principle with Israeli ministers pledging to combat antisemitism. Between 2023 and 2024, a delegation of senior SD members visited Israel to hold meetings with [[Knesset]] politicians and discuss a cooperation pact with the [[Likud]] party.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-29/ty-article/.premium/top-members-of-far-right-swedish-party-with-neo-nazi-roots-meet-israeli-minister/0000018d-564e-d0fc-a9bd-5e5f9ff00000 |title=Top Members of Far-right Swedish Party With neo-Nazi Roots Meet Israeli Minister in Knesset |publisher=Haaretz |date=29 Jan 2024 |access-date=31 May 2024 |archive-date=8 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408204219/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-29/ty-article/.premium/top-members-of-far-right-swedish-party-with-neo-nazi-roots-meet-israeli-minister/0000018d-564e-d0fc-a9bd-5e5f9ff00000 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/06/12/seizing-on-pro-israel-stance-likud-poised-to-mover-closer-to-far-right-parties-in-europe/ |title=Seizing on pro-Israel stance, Likud poised to move closer to far-Right parties in Europe |publisher=Haaretz |date=6 December 2024 |access-date=31 May 2024 |archive-date=1 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601191507/https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/06/12/seizing-on-pro-israel-stance-likud-poised-to-mover-closer-to-far-right-parties-in-europe/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The party has also taken a strongly pro-Israel position following the outbreak of the [[Gaza war]], supporting military action to remove Hamas and calling on the Swedish government to review all funding to Palestinian organizations which the SD accuse of spending aid money on terrorism.<ref name="auto12"/>

SD has advocated a "neutral" position on the [[Syrian civil war]] and sent a delegation to meet with Syrian officials in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dalsbro |first1=Anders |last2=Wiklander |first2=Daniel |date=2018-02-20 |title=SD-riksdagsmän kritiseras för resa till Syrien |trans-title=SD Member of Parliament criticized for trip to Syria |url=https://expo.se/nyheter/2017/11/sd-riksdagsm%C3%A4n-kritiseras-f%C3%B6r-resa-till-syrien |website=[[Expo (magazine)|Expo]] |language=sv |access-date=1 September 2022 |archive-date=6 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906152952/https://expo.se/nyheter/2017/11/sd-riksdagsm%C3%A4n-kritiseras-f%C3%B6r-resa-till-syrien |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Other regions ====
In 2011, SD was the only Swedish political party to vote against Swedish involvement in the [[2011 military intervention in Libya]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Jakobsson |first=Johannes |date=1 April 2011 |title=Sverigedemokraterna röstade mot Libyeninsatsen |trans-title=The Sweden Democrats voted against the Libya intervention |url=https://expo.se/2011/04/sverigedemokraterna-r%C3%B6stade-mot-libyeninsatsen |work=[[Expo (magazine)|Expo]]}}</ref> SD also supports the creation of an [[Kurdistan|independent Kurdish state]] and for the [[Armenian genocide]] to be formally recognised by the international community.<ref name="auto4"/> Since 2022, the SD has participated in [[bipartisan]] efforts to give more diplomatic recognition to [[Taiwan]] and supported a motion in the Riksdag to change the name of Sweden’s representative office in Taiwan to "House of Sweden". SD politician [[Markus Wiechel]] said the name change denotes that Sweden should treat Taiwan as a nation rather than a disputed territory or a province of China.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://globaltaiwan.org/2022/05/facing-beijings-coercion-sweden-strengthens-ties-with-taiwan/ |title=Facing Beijing's Coercion, Sweden Strengthens Ties with Taiwan |date=4 May 2022 |access-date=2025-02-03}}</ref> Wiechel also proposed giving military support to Taiwan and said SD sees Taiwan as an independent state.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nyheter |first=S. V. T. |date=2023-05-19 |title=SD-politiker: Taiwan bör få militärt stöd – precis som Ukraina |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/sd-politiker-sverige-bor-bista-taiwan-militart |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=SVT Nyheter |language=sv}}</ref> SD politician and MEP [[Charlie Weimers]] also enhanced Taiwan-EU relations through his motion which got approval in the [[European Parliament]] on closer cooperation between Taiwan and EU.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stort EU-stöd för SD-politiker om Taiwan |url=https://www.europaportalen.se/2021/09/stort-eu-stod-sd-politiker-om-taiwan |access-date=2025-04-12 |website=www.europaportalen.se |language=sv}}</ref>