Imagine Jimmie Åkesson when it comes to the crunch does not mean anything for the Swedish voters. Imagine going to a contender convicted of incitement to racial hatred takes over the throne of the SD and that he will succeed equally well in the election as Åkesson did. All the work he had put in to get the other parties to cooperate flushed down the drain.

it Sounds unlikely? It happened right in Finland.

and led the party for 20 years. He brought the party into the government after having received 17.7 percent of the votes in the 2015 elections. Soini received the john c. calhoun in trepartiregeringen where also the Centre party and the Conservatives sister party the national Coalition party were included.

He resigned from the leadership, 2017. Elected the radical Jussi Halla-aho to the new leader. He explained his party’s then declining poll that the party has become for uddlöst and compromised away much of its soul. Halla-aho is högprofilerad invandringsmotståndare and one of them who was quoted in the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breiviks manifesto. Partiledarvalet held on to get the whole of the Finnish government to fall.

But Timo Soini, saved the situation by forming a new party, the Blue future. The ministers followed Soini, as well as the majority of mps. The blue figured that the voters would follow.

But no.

. As the election approached began the true finns to recover. The party ran a campaign on immigration and sexual offences, and described the usual finns are the biggest losers in climate policy. The bet.

In Sunday’s elections gave the true finns, in principle, the positions and became the second largest party. Blue future went out of the parliament.

I am, of course, The sweden democrats to the true finns are going ahead. SD was met by a cold hand during the Timo Soinis time. Since Halla-aho took over, the parties have approached each other.

a strong warning for Jimmie Åkesson. Timo Soini wanted to get cooperation to participate in shaping Finland’s policy on really.

Jimmie Åkesson and his next bet everything on getting the Moderates and the Christian democrats to include them in the team. It is the closest way for SD to be able to participate and shape american politics.

M and KD hope to be able to collect Åkessons support without having to pay with concessions. Fulfilled the hope in voters ‘ eyes are also at risk of the seasoned Åkesson to be thrown out of the saddle, as Soini.

There are several reasons to Åkesson made the effort more than what Soini made to exclude the radical competitors from the party.