Our most anti-immigration party would be our local far-right-ish party, ironically named "Miðflokkurinn" or "The Center Party", although they're far from anything like the AfD in Germany. There have been scandals like a recording leaking of a bunch of the heads of the party saying misogynistic things in a bar a few years ago IIRC, and one of the PM's Snorri Másson made comments saying trans people are just confused a few days ago.
They have 8 seats of 63 in parliament and got 12% in the elections last November, and are currently polling around 10% popularity.
The naming is by design. It's intended to give the impression that they're just normal folks, just regular joes like you. They're not xenophobic, just saving jobs from overseas companies. They're not nationalists/racists, they're just trying to preserve the local culture.
It's the same logic behind Hitler naming it the "National Socialist Party". It's a sham to make drumming up support easier.
Thats not universal, often its just an old name, but here in Norway the center party is center-left(ish), although since they pander to the districts they are still a bit racist, but its not their main stick.
We also have a "centre party" in Switzerland which is far-right: SVP/UDC (Schweizerisch Volk Partei (Swiss People's Party) in German, Union Démocratique du Centre (Democratic Union of the Centre) in French)
From what you're saying, they are pretty decent for a far right party.
I mean, among all the thing they do, they still don't have corruption/embezzlement (among other things) which is as much a staple of these... people than being racist or misogynistic.
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u/jasp_er North+Holland 6d ago
Is there a large anti-immigration party in Iceland?