Nuance Party

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Nuance Party
Partiet Nyans
Founder Mikail Yüksel
Founded2019 (2019)
Split from Centre Party
Ideology Muslim minority interests [1]
Religion Sunni Islam
European affiliation Free Palestine Party [5]
Website
www.partietnyans.se OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Nuance Party (Swedish : Partiet Nyans) is an Islamist [6] [7] political party in Sweden. It was founded in 2019 with the aim of representing minority groups with foreign backgrounds, especially the country's Muslim population. [8] [9] [10] In the 2022 local election, the party won three municipal seats, one in Landskrona and two in Botkyrka. [11] [12] The party has been criticized due to defending former ISIS members. [13]

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History

The Nuance Party was founded in August 2019 by Mikail Yüksel, a Turkish-born politician expelled from the Centre Party for alleged links to the Turkish ultranationalist group the Grey Wolves. [14] 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. [15] The party was launched in September 2019 and registered with Sweden's Election Authority in October 2019 to contest the 2022 Swedish general election, as well as the 2024 European Parliament election in Sweden. [16]

Ahead of the 2022 election, Maria Malmer Stenergard of the Moderate Party and Morgan Johansson of the Social Democrats raised serious concerns about the Nuance Party. [17] [18]

Controversies

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. [19] In 2024 a politician of the party, Hamza Akacha, was convicted for possession of child pornography. [20]

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. [21] [22]

Ideology

Political scientists Sofie Blombäck and Magnus Ranstorp have said that The Nuance Party's ideology is fundamentally based on identity politics. [23] [24] Kurdo Baksi, an anti-racist immigrant to Sweden from Turkey, has said Partiet Nyans is populist and attracts Islamists, something the party refutes. [25] [26] Swedish political scientist Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson said the party engages in client politics. [27] Sofie Blombäck, a political scientist from Mid Sweden University, said that the party is unusual because religious-based parties are rare in Sweden. The Christian Democrats, for example, is smaller than its other European counterparts like the Germany's Christian Democratic Union, The Netherlands' Christian Democratic Appeal, or Spain's People's Party. Blombäck compared the Nuance Party to DENK, a minority-focused party in the Netherlands, and said that while it could enter local politics in Malmö, it was unlikely to join the Riksdag. [28]

In 2022, the party erected a billboard in Kulu, located in Turkey's Konya province, which is the ancestral origin for a majority of Sweden's Turkish community. The billboard described itself as "the only Turkey-friendly party that distances itself from terrorist organisations". [29]

Platform

The Nuance Party accuses Swedish social services of "forcing" Muslim children into non-Muslim foster care to facilitate assimilation. These accusations have been picked up by foreign broadcasters including TRT World and Al Jazeera and rejected as false in Sweden. [30] [31] The party supports criminalising Quran desecration, such as the public burnings by activist Rasmus Paludan that preceded the 2022 Sweden riots that April. [32] The party wants Skåne County to burn down Lars Vilks' large sculpture Nimis because of Vilks' depiction of Muhammed as a roundabout dog. [33]

The party criticised a report by the Center for Knowledge and Security (CKS) in Borås which they claimed gave a one-sided and overly negative picture about Somalis. Yüksel expressed a desire to shut down CKS as a result. [34]

The party is supportive of the European Union. [35]

Party goals

The most important goals according to the party website is: [35]

Election results

Riksdag

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. [38] They received very high vote shares in some Muslim-dense suburbs, including 21.22% in Västra Hisingen, Svarte Mosse (Biskopsgården, Gothenburg), 26.36% in Spånga 27 Rinkeby mellersta (Rinkeby, Stockholm) and 28.11% in Rosengård Centrum (Malmö). [39] Political scientist Anders Sannerstedt has said the rise of the Nuance Party may be one reason the left bloc lost. [40]

ElectionVotes%Seats+/-Government
2022 28,3520.4 (#9)
0 / 349
NewNo seats

Regional and local

The party received 2.44% of the votes in the Landskrona Municipality election, [41] and 2.03% of the votes in Botkyrka Municipality, [42] putting them above the 2% minimum needed for a seat on the councils. [43] [44] They ran candidates in the concurrent regional election, but did not receive any seats.

European Parliament

ElectionList leaderVotes%Seats+/–EP Group
2024 Mikail Yüksel 1,7720.04 (#17)
0 / 21
New–

See also

References

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  32. 1 2 "Här är det nystartade partiet som vill förbjuda koranbränning" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
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  35. 1 2 "VÅRA VIKTIGASTE FRÅGOR" (in Swedish). Partiet Nyans. 13 September 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
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