Sweden Democrats (SD) party's Kent Ekeroth attends a parliamentary summit about border control within the European countries, in Stockholm June 28, 2011. REUTERS/Janerik Henriksson/Scanpix
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A far-right party has taken third place in Swedish opinion polls, helped by concerns over immigration and rising unemployment, and may now hold the balance of power after the next national election in 2014.
Nordic populist parties are showing resilience despite scandals among right-wing activists in Sweden and mass killings by anti-Islamist Anders Behring Breivik last year.
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