Nuance Party Explained

Nuance Party
Native Name:Partiet Nyans
Founder:Mikail Yüksel
Ideology:Muslimminorityinterests[1]
European:Free Palestine Party[5]
Country:Sweden

The Nuance Party (Swedish: Partiet Nyans) is a Muslim minority rights party in Sweden,[6] [7] [8] founded in 2019.

History

The Nuance Party was founded in August 2019 by Mikail Yüksel, a Turkish-born politician who had been expelled from the Centre Party for alleged links to the Turkish ultranationalist group the Grey Wolves.[9] In his founding statement, he said that Islamophobia should be a criminal offence, and that Sweden's Muslims should have a constitutional definition as a minority.[10] The party was officially launched in September 2019 and registered with Sweden's Election Authority on 31 October 2019 to contest the 2022 Swedish general election, as well as the 2024 European Parliament election in Sweden.[11]

Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's newspaper of record, reported in July 2022 that one in every seven of the party's electoral candidates was a convicted criminal.[12] One of these, Bashir Aman Ali, received a 4.5-year prison sentence for financial crime, having used 10 million Swedish krona from an educational organisation to start an Islamic bank; he was accused by politicians from other parties of spreading conspiracy theories during the campaign, as he falsely claimed that Sweden can imprison Muslims for up to a year without trial or evidence.[13] [14]

In August 2022, Scania newspapers Helsingborgs Dagblad and Sydsvenskan found that five of Nuance's 25 candidates in the county had spread hate speech about Jews and Shia Muslims, COVID-19 misinformation, or 9/11 conspiracy theories. Three of the candidates were expelled due to the findings.[15] [16]

Platform

The Nuance Party accuses Swedish social services of forcing Muslim children into foster care and assimilation, accusations which have been picked up by foreign broadcasters including TRT World and Al Jazeera and rejected as false in Sweden.[17] [18] The party supports criminalising Quran desecration, such as the public burnings by activist Rasmus Paludan that preceded the 2022 Sweden riots that April.[19]

The party put up a billboard in Kulu, Konya, the place of origin of most of Sweden's Turks, including Yüksel. The billboard described it as "the only Turkey-friendly party that distances itself from terrorist organisations".[20] Sofie Blombäck, a political scientist from Mid Sweden University, said that the party was unusual in that religious-based parties are rare in Sweden; the Christian Democrats is a party smaller than in other nations. Blombäck compared the Nuance Party to DENK, a minority-focused party in the Netherlands, and said that while it could possibly enter local politics in Malmö, it was unlikely to enter the Riksdag.[21]

Party goals

These are some of the party goals:[22]

Results

In the 2022 Swedish general election, the Nuance Party came ninth with 0.44% of the vote, the highest of any party that did not enter parliament. The party claimed 2.1% of the vote in Malmö, 1.14% in Gothenburg and 0.76% in Stockholm.[24] Some analysts have seen the rise of the Nuance Party as one of the causes of the losses in the left bloc.[25]

The party received 2.44% of the votes in Landskrona Municipality election,[26] and 2.03% of the votes in Botkyrka Municipality,[27] putting them above the 2% minimum needed for a seat on the councils.[28] [29]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2019-08-27 . Sunnimuslimer bildar eget parti i Sverige . 2022-09-20 . TTELA . sv.
  2. Web site: 2019-08-27 . Nu startar vi partiet för landets förorter . 2022-09-27 . Aftonbladet . sv.
  3. Web site: Den "svenske" byen i Tyrkia er imot svensk Nato-medlemskap. Åse Marit. Befring. June 28, 2022. NRK.
  4. Web site: 2024-06-12 . en-US . Dramatic Gains for the Right-Populist Sweden Democrats Party in the 2022 Elections . Australian Institute of International Affairs.
  5. Web site: Partiet Nyans – Den svenska koalitionen leds av det partiet Nyanse. sv. 14 April 2024. Free Palastine Party.
  6. Web site: 30 May 2022 . DEBATT: Partiet Nyans bekräftar att de är islamister och sekterister (debate article) .
  7. Web site: Nyans partiledare försvarar IS-återvändarna . 21 February 2022 .
  8. News: 16 September 2022 . Partiet Nyans – det här vill det nya partiet . 19 September 2022 . . sv.
  9. News: Marinkovic . Dusan . Nyans bojkottar medier: 'Spridit en negativ bild' . 19 September 2022 . . 30 August 2022 . sv.
  10. News: Zetterman . Jacob . Nya partiet Nyans vill värna muslimers intressen . 19 September 2022 . . 23 August 2019 . sv.
  11. Web site: Kungörelse om beslut att registrera anmälan om deltagande i val . . 19 September 2022 . sv.
  12. News: Var sjunde kandidat på Nyans riksdagslista dömd för brott . 19 September 2022 . . 26 July 2022 . sv.
  13. News: Toppkandidat i partiet Nyans: 'Muslimer fängslas utan rättegång' . 19 September 2022 . Sveriges Television . 8 September 2022 . sv.
  14. News: Politiker upprörda över partiet Nyans uttalanden . 19 September 2022. Sveriges Television . 8 September 2022 . sv.
  15. News: Ivarsson . Dan . Hamdan . Inas . Granskning: Nyans-politiker sprider hat mot judar och shia-muslimer . Sydsvenskan. 19 September 2022 . 11 August 2022. sv.
  16. News: Nyanskandidater spred hat mot judar och muslimer . 19 September 2022 . Svenska Dagbladet . 11 August 2022 . sv.
  17. News: Avci . Gulan . Därför bör vi alla oroas av partiet Nyans . 19 September 2022 . Expressen . 15 February 2022 . sv.
  18. News: Liberalerna: 'Partiet Nyans sprider desinformation' . 19 September 2022 . Sveriges Television . 5 September 2022 . sv.
  19. News: Här är det nystartade partiet som vill förbjuda koranbränning . 19 September 2022 . Sveriges Television . 5 September 2022 . sv.
  20. News: Befring . Åse Marit . Den 'svenske' byen i Tyrkia vil ikke ha Sverige inn i Nato . 19 September 2022 . . 28 June 2022 . no.
  21. News: Statsvetaren: Ovanligt med partier med religiös bas . Sveriges Television. 19 September 2022 . 5 September 2022 . sv.
  22. News: 13 September 2022 . VÅRA VIKTIGASTE FRÅGOR . sv . Partiet Nyans . 9 November 2022.
  23. Web site: 2024-01-14 . https://insikt24.se/partiet-nyans-viktigaste-fraga-infor-eu-valet-ta-bort-hamas-fran-terrorlistan/, https://insikt24.se/partiet-nyans-viktigaste-fraga-infor-eu-valet-ta-bort-hamas-fran-terrorlistan/ . 2024-02-06 . insikt24.se . sv-SE.
  24. News: Så gick det i riksdagsvalet för partierna under spärren . 19 September 2022 . Sveriges Television . 18 September 2022 . sv.
  25. Web site: Kenez. Levent. 14 September 2022. Pro-Erdoğan Islamist party in Sweden sparks concerns after it receives large number of votes in immigrant districts. Nordic Monitor. 17 September 2022. 13 September 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220913220734/https://nordicmonitor.com/2022/09/pro-erdogan-islamist-party-in-sweden-raises-concern-as-highly-voted-in-immigrant-districts/. live.
  26. Web site: Valpresentation . 2022-09-21 . Resultat.val.se. sv.
  27. Web site: Valpresentation . 2022-09-21 . Resultat.val.se. sv.
  28. News: 2022-09-21 . Sweden's new immigrant party gets first elected position . 2022-09-21 . The Local Sweden . en-US.
  29. News: Langert . Danielle . 2022-09-21 . Färdigräknat – partiet Nyans kommer in i Botkyrka . sv . SVT Nyheter . 2022-09-21.

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