News · Migration · Published 18 July 2026
SD: “Sweden has far too many people who are not ethnic Swedes”
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“Sweden has far too many people who are not part of the ethnically Swedish population,” Sweden Democrats migration spokesperson Ludvig Aspling told Dagens ETC. He said this had caused “enormous problems” and called for immigration from culturally distant parts of the world to be reduced.
Dagens ETC published the interview on 14 July. Aspling described the people he was referring to by ethnicity rather than citizenship or residence status, and linked their presence to problems he associated with immigration and integration.
Christian Democrat civil affairs minister Erik Slottner responded in Dagens ETC’s follow-up on 17 July. He said large differences in culture and values can make integration harder and create problems when people come to Sweden from countries with very different norms.
Slottner also said the dispute “has nothing to do with ethnicity”. He warned politicians to be cautious about dividing the population into ethnic Swedes and people who are not ethnic Swedes, a position also reported by Omni.
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