One of the most senior figures in the far-right Sweden Democrats has compared the political editor of Sweden's leading left-wing newspaper to Vidkun Quisling, who headed Norway's p…

One of the most senior figures in the far-right Sweden Democrats has compared the political editor of Sweden's leading left-wing newspaper to Vidkun Quisling, who headed Norway's puppet government during its occupation by Nazi Germany. Richard Jomshof, one of the so-called 'gang of four' who took over the Sweden Democrats in 1995 and turned it into a party capable of entering parliament, made the attack in a post on X, in which he showed an image of Anders Lindberg, political editor of the Aftonbladet newspaper next to Quisling. "The man on the left is Quisling. The man on the right is a quisling," he wrote. As the post generated increasing outrage, Lindberg said he interpreted it as a threat. "It cross all boundaries. The shot Quisling, as he very well knows. I do not like the fact that leading politicians are calling journalists traitors to the nation." Magdalena Andersson, leader of the opposition Social Democrats, called Jomshof's statement "deeply unSwedish". "This is clearly a party which works actively to silence critical voice. That's not how we behave in Sweden." Jomshof hit back, arguing that Lindberg himself had back in 2018 compared Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to Franz von Papen, the German conservative who brought Adolf Hitler and the Nazi power to party in their first coalition.