Nuance Party Last updated June 13, 2025 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 . [ 12] 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. [ 13] 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. [ 14]
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. [ 15] In 2024 a politician of the party, Hamza Akacha, was convicted for possession of child pornography . [ 16]
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. [ 17] [ 18]
The Nuance Party accuses Swedish social services of forcing Muslim children into foster care and assimilation . These accusations have been picked up by foreign broadcasters including TRT World and Al Jazeera and rejected as false in Sweden. [ 19] [ 20] The party supports criminalising Quran desecration , such as the public burnings by activist Rasmus Paludan that preceded the 2022 Sweden riots that April. [ 21]
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". [ 22] 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 enter local politics in Malmö, it was unlikely to join the Riksdag . [ 23]
Party goals The most important goals according to the party website is: [ 24]
Abolish employment fees for new immigrants and people under the age of 25 Anonymous application for rental homes Compulsory Swedish-language education for new immigrants Criminalise Bosnian genocide denial Fight racism and especially Islamophobia Criminalise Quran desecration [ 21] Legalize hijab in all public sectors, removing veil bans. Race-based affirmative action in both public and private job sectors Recognize Muslims and blacks as official minority groups Reduce VAT rates by 50% Sanction countries that do not take in refugees Sanction and cut off relations with Israel Remove Hamas from the EU terrorist list [ 25] The party is positive about Bosnian and Turkish membership in the European Union . Make it a right to receive news from authorities in foreign languages Election 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 . [ 26] They received very high vote shares in some Muslim-dominated 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). [ 27] Some analysts have seen the rise of the Nuance Party as one of the causes of the losses in the left bloc. [ 28]
The party received 2.44% of the votes in Landskrona Municipality election, [ 29] and 2.03% of the votes in Botkyrka Municipality , [ 30] putting them above the 2% minimum needed for a seat on the councils. [ 31] [ 32]
Election Votes %Seats +/- Government 2022 28,352 0.4 (#9) New No seats
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