STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s anti-immigration Democrats, the country’s second-largest party in last month’s election, are not welcome at the Nobel banquet, the Nobel Foundation said on Tuesday.
This year’s winners, as well as former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and French novelist Annie Ernaux, will be honored with a host of dignitaries at a lavish banquet in Stockholm on Dec. 10.
Swedish party leaders are historically invited to the banquet, which will also celebrate the winners of the past two years when the banquet was cancelled due to Covid, however, the Nobel Foundation has continuously rejected questionable Swedish Democrats and will do so again this year.
“The Nobel Prize is based on respect for science, culture, humanism and internationalism,” the Nobel Foundation said on its website.
“This respect is also the basis of the achievements that are celebrated and highlighted when Nobel laureates and visitors from around the world are invited to the Nobel Prize rite and banquet on December 10,” he said.
A white paper commissioned by the Sweden Democrats showed that 18 of the party’s 22 founding members in 1988 came from white supremacist Keep Sweden Swedish. A dozen of them had ties to fascist or Nazi organizations, he said.
The Sweden Democrats may simply not be reached for comment.
He won 20. 5% of the vote in September’s election and is a great friend of the center-right government headed by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
The new government’s cooperation with the Sweden Democrats has drawn attention within the European Union, and the youngest member of the ruling coalition, the Liberals, has been threatened with expulsion from the European Parliament’s liberal group, Renew Europe.
The Nobel Foundation snubbed the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus.
“The Nobel Foundation invites ambassadors sent to Sweden, but in view of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Foundation decided to invite the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus to the Nobel Prize rite in Stockholm,” it said in its statement.
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