Markus Allard
Swedish politician and journalist
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Karl Markus Alfred Allard (born 3 January 1990) is a Swedish politician, journalist and columnist, serving as leader of the Örebro Party since its inception in 2014. Since the general election in 2018, he is a municipal commissioner and member in the Örebro municipal assembly.[1] Following the 2022 election, he is also county commissioner and member of the Örebro county council.[2] Allard writes columns for the blog Ledarsidorna,[3] and has previously worked as a journalist for the online newspaper Nyheter Idag as well as the Sweden Democrat-connected media outlet Riks.[4]
3 January 1990
Markus Allard | |
|---|---|
| Leader of the Örebro Party | |
| Assumed office 5 March 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Member of the Örebro municipal assembly | |
| Assumed office 2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Karl Markus Alfred Allard 3 January 1990 |
| Party | Örebro Party (since 2014) |
Other political affiliations | Left (until 2013) SADI (Mali - 2012) |
| Relatives | Henry Allard (grandfather) |
He has a podcast with writer Malcom Kyeyune and with former Alternative for Sweden Riksdag candidate Erik Berglund.[5]
Allard and his party have been described as a nationalist,[6] left-wing populist and right-wing populist.[7] He has also been accused of being a communist.[6]
Biography
From 2009 to 2013, Allard was chairman of the Young Left's district organisation in Örebro. He worked for the election campaign of Oumar Mariko in Mali during the 2012 Malian coup d'état.[8][9]
Markus Allard is the grandson of the Social Democratic politician and speaker of the Riksdag Henry Allard.
Political positions
Foreign policy
Markus Allard supports Sweden leaving NATO and massively increasing its weapons production and arms exports.[10][11] Allard is also in favor of Sweden leaving the European Union in a so called "Swexit".[12] Regarding support for Ukraine, Allard has stated on the platform X that Sweden should only support other countries on the condition that it benefits Sweden and that it has to be "Sweden first" that is the principle.[13] Before joining NATO, Allard wrote that he "does not understand how it lessens the military threat from Russia by joining NATO" and that he sees Russia as a threat to Sweden regardless of who rules Russia due to geopolitical reasons.[14]
Allard has voiced support for the idea of a Nordic union.[15]
The Swedish foreign aid budget has also come under criticism from Markus Allard who has voiced support for abolishing it, arguing it costs far to much money.[16]
In a post from 2012 Allard criticized the state of Israel and wrote that "Cuba is going to be placed under an embargo but the fascist apartheid state of Israel is defended until the last Palestinian child has been incinerated. Liberal politics."[17] In 2025 he again referenced the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and wrote that he “does not give a shit” about Israel or Palestine and that he thinks it is wrong to kill children regardless of which side perpetuates it.[18]
Remigration
Markus Allard has voiced support for the idea of large scale remigration on multiple occasions. On one occasion, in a debate with a Liberal member of parliament, he asked why the Liberal party "does not wish to deport 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?"[19] In the same debate Allard also claimed 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."[19] Regarding deporting those born in Sweden, Allard said in a podcast 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."[20]
Use of public expenditure
A steadfast opponent of spending tax payer money on art and monuments, Allard has frequently criticized various projects in Örebro as a "waste of tax payer money", including the construction of a chromed apple on the top of a hill in the Örebro neighborhood of Vivalla that was built for a cost of 660 000 SEK.[21] Allard has also been a vocal critic of what he refers to as "made up occupations", being occupations with high salaries, most often in the public sector, which Markus Allard sees as unnecessary services and yet again a waste of tax payer money.[22][7]
Welfare
The Örebro Party with Allard as its leader says it wants to cut the salary for politicians and use that money to make dental care free/subsidized by the money taken from the politicians salaries.[23] On the topic of lowering the work hours Allard, in 2026 in the municipal assembly, voted in favor of a proposal by the Left party to enable a 30 hour work week with retained salary for some welfare occupations such as preschool teachers and employees at care facilities as a trial project that would after two years be evaluated.[24]
Other
Allard has criticized the Swedish policy on alcohol and says he wants to allow for the sale of alcohol in stores, without abolishing the Swedish alcohol monopoly. He also proposes lowering the legal age of buying alcohol in stores from 20 years today to 18 years. According to Markus Allard the Swedish alcohol monopoly chain Systembolaget should extend their opening times to also be open on Saturday afternoons and on Sundays and that the chain should also be allowed to sell cooled beer.[25]