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Örebro Party

The Örebro Party (Swedish: Örebropartiet, ÖP) is a political party in Sweden. The party was initially only a local party in Örebro, Sweden. Markus Allard is the party leader. According to Allard the party cannot be placed anywhere on the traditional left-right spectrum. Some of its key issues include lowered wages for politicians, ending the tax payer funding of various sculptures, monuments and art, large scale remigration, a stricter immigration policy, and free dental care.[3][4]

Örebro Party
Örebropartiet
AbbreviationÖP[1]
ÖrP[2]
LeaderMarkus Allard
Founded5 March 2014; 12 years ago (5 March 2014)
Split fromLeft Party
HeadquartersÖrebro
IdeologyNationalism (Swedish)
Populism
Anti-corruption
Colours
  •   Red
  •   Black
Riksdag
0 / 349
County council
3 / 71
Municipal council
5 / 65
Website
orebropartiet.se

The party runs candidates for seats in the municipal assembly of Örebro Municipality and the Örebro County Council. Since the 2022 elections, it has five seats in the municipal assembly and three in the regional assembly. Its symbol represents Svampen (The Mushroom), a water tower that is a prominent landmark in Örebro. In October 2025 party leader Markus Allard announced the party’s intention to run in the 2026 Swedish general election. Allard motivated the decision by saying that ÖP now has a financial situation that allows for standing candidates in the election to the Riksdag. Allard set out a goal to win a seat in the Swedish parliament via the Örebro Riksdag constituency, which has a threshold at 12%.[5]

A December 2025 poll conducted by Verian for SVT showed the Örebro Party being the largest political party outside of parliament.[6] Polls from Nordisk Opinion have shown the Örebro Party polling at 0.4 and 0.9% and in hypothetical polls where respondents were asked how they would vote if Sweden did not have a parliamentary threshold at 4% the Örebro Party received between 1.9 and 2.8%.[7] A local poll in May 2026 showed the Örebro Party receiving 18.4% of the vote in the municipal election in Örebro and thus becoming the second largest party in the municipal council, up from 7.9% in the 2022 election. Among men aged 18-39 ÖP would receive 30.3% of the vote and become the largest party. [8]

History

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Split from the left

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The initiative to found the Örebro Party was taken in early 2014 by Markus Allard, who is also the first party leader. Allard had previously held positions as substitute member of the Örebro municipal council and district chairman of the Young Left in Örebro; in December 2013 he was expelled from the Left Party and its youth wing Young Left for "liking" the Revolutionary Front, a militant revolutionary socialist and anti-fascist organization, on Facebook and refusing to disavow it when questioned.[9] Allard has stated that the real reason for his expulsion was that he was perceived as a threat to the established party bureaucracy.[10][11]

While Allard has described himself as a Communist,[12] and a Marxist,[11][13] at its founding in March 2014 he defined the Örebro Party as "broad left".[12] At that time the party considered itself a "local party that wants to carry on the labour movement's ideals", and "not interested in administrating the current society".[14]

As a result of signing the petition required for ÖP to be registered as a party, a large number of Left Party members in Örebro were informed of the party's intention to expel them.[15] This triggered backlash from several other Left Party members in social media,[16] and a number of Left Party and Young Left members who had signed the petition later appeared on the party's list of election candidates while not joining ÖP as members. Throughout early 2014, several members of the Young Left were expelled for expressing support for Allard and his position on the Revolutionary Front, among them the writer Malcom Kyeyune[17] and Axel Frick, Allard's replacement as district chairman of the Young Left in Örebro and an Örebro Party candidate.[18]

In the September 2014 Swedish election, the party received 1,050 votes in the municipal council election in Örebro,[19][20] and also some write-in votes in Örebro County for the Riksdag.[21]

Entering the municipal assembly

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In February 2018, Allard stated that having decided to focus on "down-to-earth and local issues", the party membership had broadened since its foundation and he would no longer characterize it as either left or right.[13] The same month Peter Springare [sv], an Örebro police officer, joined the party. He had attracted attention the previous year for a Facebook post about his experience with overrepresentation of violent crime among immigrants.[22][13]

In the 2018 election, the party gained two seats on the Örebro municipal council, where it is represented by Allard and Springare.[23] They subsequently gained representation on the Örebro municipal executive committee, with Allard as full-time municipal commissioner. Since achieving municipal representation in 2018 the party has gotten considerable attention for Allard's distinctly polemical debating-style in the municipal chamber, with a number of speeches going viral.[24][25][26]

Ideology

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The ideas of Markus Allard has been described as national conservative and "conservative with a Marxist stamp".[27] Expo has described the Örebro Party as part of a growing left-wing nationalistic movement in Sweden.[28] The party has also been described as both right-wing populist[29] and left-wing populist as well as left-conservative.[30] Party leader Markus Allard was referred to by the Waste Ombudsman at the Swedish Taxpayers' Association as a communist, nationalist and a populist. The chief editor at a local newspaper in Örebro made accusations against the Örebro Party and said that it was his personal opinion that they are "racists, fascists and nazis".[31]

Transferiat

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The party claims to stand for a "class-conscious populism" which according to party leader Markus Allard takes inspiration from marxist ideology[32] and unites the "productive" classes of society against the "Transferiat", with the "Transferiat" being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society that lives off of transfers that are a net negative for society such as those who, despite having an ability to work, live off of social welfare benefits, as well as those who work "made-up services"[33] that the party deems serve no societal function, such as bureaucrats, consultants, public sector communications specialists, strategists and HR-specialists.[34] The party and its leader Markus Allard strongly criticize the "Transferiat" and argues it needs to be abolished as it "sucks money out of the state".[35] The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that "lives off of transfers", as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.[36][37]

Policies

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Social policy

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The Örebro party support making plebiscites easier to enact and more potent, increased social housing,[38] subsidies for youth recreation,[22] and free dental care.[39] The party advocates for remigration policies, strong secularism, and assimilationist policies such as immediate closure of the Islamic charter schools.[40][41][42] It opposes continued privatization of health care, elderly care, public housing and municipal education, among other things. During the 2018–2022 term, the party has opposed prestige public projects it considers wasteful, such as the proposed Palace of Culture and bus rapid transit.[43][44]

Immigration and remigration policy

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Markus Allard initiated heavy debate in 2025 by claiming that Sweden is "the land for/belongs to the Swedes" and that the Örebro party favors a large scale remigration policy. He also criticized the Sweden Democrats for, according to him, allowing too many immigrants into the country under their watch as confidence and supply to the Kristersson cabinet.

In 2026 ÖP party leader Markus Allard sparked controversy on several occasions. In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: "why won't the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?" and in the same debate said that "Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense." [45]

In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish." [46]

Foreign policy

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In a podcast in May 2026 Allard clarifies some positions that his party holds and among other things made clear that leaving the EU and NATO were on the table for ÖP. Regarding NATO Allard claimed that Sweden cannot trust or rely on NATO and that the country should instead seek to massively increase its weapons production and also become a major arms exporter, arguing it would benefit the Swedish economy.[47][48]

Activities

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The Örebro party actively supports the creation of similar parties in other municipalities such as the Tierp List,[49] Arvikapartiet,[50] Mölndalslistan, and Östgötapartiet[51]–variously described as external branches of the Örebro party.[52]

2021 bus rapid transit petition

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During 2021, the Örebro Party participated in a petition campaign demanding a public plebiscite on the planned introduction of bus rapid transit alongside the Liberal Party, the Sweden Democrats and local groups.[53] In October of that year the group turned in 15 500 signatures to the municipality, well over the statutory limit required to call a plebiscite In Örebro according to Swedish law.[54] The municipality would subsequently disqualify around a third of the signatures, resulting in the petition falling short such that no vote would be held.[55] The municipality's assessment process has been heavily criticized by the Örebro Party for being co-led by an elected Social Democratic politician, repeated inconsistencies in the several rounds of recounting as well as systematic irregularities in the transcription of personal identity numbers allegedly found by the Örebro Party in their own audit.[56][57] This criticism has led to comparisons between the party and former US president Donald Trump in Swedish national media[58] as well as accusations of Marxism-Leninism by the local leader of the centre-right Moderate Party.[59] The decision to disqualify the signatures is the subject of ongoing appeal by all parties involved.[60][61]

Dispute with local newspaper

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In December of 2025 Markus Allard was accused of "manipulating" a survey that he and other politicians in the city council had been sent by local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda (NA). Allard said that he had responded multiple times to the survey as the responses were anonymous and that he had pretended to be other politicians criticizing Allard and the use of his language in the city council.[62] The chief editor of NA had also said that the Örebro Party were "racists, fascists, nazis."[31]

Suspension of regional council meeting

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In February of 2026 Allard was mentioned in the SVT humor talkshow Svenska Nyheter[63] after Allard had cussed at a Moderate member of the regional council and said that "you are an idiot through and through" after this member had made accusations regarding the standpoints of the Örebro Party and claimed that ÖP wanted to lower the salary of healthcare employees. The strong wording of Allard led to a suspension of the meeting of the regional council. [64]

Other

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The party is heavily opposed to political corruption and high politician incomes and wants to reduce the wages of politicians and senior officials.[22] In keeping with this policy, Allard promised to donate half of his monthly allowance to fund a planned series of social programmes. In August 2019 the party announced the first such project to be social pole-walking (sauvakävely) for pensioners.[65] During the COVID-19 pandemic the party has used this fund to provide face masks to municipal elderly care workers,[66][67] while heavily criticising what is perceived as a political gag-order on care workers regarding poor equipment and conditions.[68][69][70]

References

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  1. ↑ Svennebäck, Åsa (11 September 2018). "Örebropartiet räknar med att bli stoppklossen i fullmäktige". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. Archived from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
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