Stefano Dell’Orto is an Italian who has lived in Sweden since 1998. He is married to a Swedish woman, with whom he has two teenage daughters. He is therefore perfectly integrated, graduated in engineering, manager at Vattenfall, the electricity company of the Scandinavian country. Yet, speaking with Adnkronos, he does not hide his own “small apprehension” about the Swedish electoral outcome, which rewarded Jimmie Akesson’s far right and led to the resignation of Social Democratic Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson.
“The far-right party that won the elections in Sweden is clearly xenophobic and there is some concern among those with a non-Swedish surname – he says – We don’t know what will happen, even if I am part of the social class’ of graduates’ and with a good working position “. Although the new right-wing politics touches him marginally, Dell’Orto nevertheless underlines the fact that “the announced restrictive policies could now involve the next migratory flows, as well as the less affluent classes of immigrants present in the country, towards which it has never been putting in place any real integration policy “.
“It is true – he admits – that immigrants have been given houses, for example, but it is also true that ghetto areas have been created and that the lack of integration has led, even recently, to clashes and riots that certainly they have had a weight in influencing public opinion and the electorate. At the moment, there is certainly a sense of unease among immigrants to understand what is about to happen “.
“Sweden – he remembers – if you compare it with other Scandinavian countries, it has had more permissive immigration policies, it has been much more open, but no real integration policy has been made. has staked its own electoral campaign against immigration and was actually the only one to have tackled the policy of immigration and integration. It was a very strong turning point and the moderates lost points precisely for having opened up on these issues to the far-right party. The social democrats in the cities and the socialist democrats and environmentalists have gained, due to the Greta effect – continues Dell’Orto, who, in addition to having Italian citizenship, also has Swedish citizenship and therefore voted for both national , which to the regional and municipal – but the moderate party lost votes, for having opened to the extreme right. Unlike the national outcome, in the cities the center-left has maintained. tura, Stockholm has moved from the center-right to the center-left. Instead, in rural areas there has been a significant shift to the right. ”
(by Cristiano Camera)
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