Members of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Italy's Lega and Belgium's Vlaams Belang will attend a campaign rally for the Alternative for Sweden (AfS) party in Stockholm, the Swedish party said Friday in a statement.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 07th September, 2018) Members of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Italy's Lega and Belgium's Vlaams Belang will attend a campaign rally for the Alternative for Sweden (AfS) party in Stockholm, the Swedish party said Friday in a statement.
Markus Jonsson, a parliamentary candidate for AfS, told Sputnik in an interview on Thursday that the Stockholm event was canceled by "by the ruling Social Democrats in the Stockholm City Hall." However, since the party still had permission from the police, they would go ahead with the rally, Jonsson said.
"Lega and Alternative for Germany are speaking at Alternatives for Sweden's election campaign finale in Kungstradgarden. Representatives from several European nationalist parties are to speak in support of Alternative for Sweden at the election campaign finale in Kungstradgarden Friday at 12:00 [local time, 10:100 GMT]," the party's statement said.
The speakers will include lawmaker Gianluca Cantalamessa and EU parliament candidate Alessandro Sansoni from Lega, Baden-Wuerttemberg regional assembly AfD lawmaker Lars Patrick Berg, honorary Flemish Senator Frank Creyelman from Vlaams Belang party.
The event will be attended by Jaak Madison, the Estonian lawmaker and vice chairman of the Conservative People's Party of Estonia, as well as by Sakari Linden, a political adviser for the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group in the European Parliament.
AfS, launched in March, will be running in the parliamentary election scheduled for this Sunday.
All 349 seats in the Riksdag will be contested. A party may enter the parliament if it secures four percent of the vote across the country or 12 percent of the vote in any one constituency.
