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STRÄNGNÄS, Sweden – With his flushed hair and jovial eloquence, Jimmie Akesson could have been mistaken for a talk show host while he was addressing a crowd recently in this idyllic lakeside town.
In fact, Mr Akesson is the leader of the far-right Swedish Democrats, a party whose roots are neo-Nazism and who should become a leading political force in Sunday's elections. And he attributes the rise of the party's stance on crime in Sweden, which sees escalating rates of rape and murder involving guns that it blames on its …
