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IT company Mullvad founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a huge donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive remigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he tells Flamman.

Five million kronor. That's how much money the populist Örebro Party received in 2025 – from a single person. This is shown in the party's income statement, which Flamman has reviewed.

Behind the giant donation is Daniel Berntsson, founder and co-owner of the internationally successful IT company Mullvad.

"This is a donation from me personally," he writes in an email to Flamman.

The company has made large profits in recent years through the sale of so-called VPN services, which make it possible to surf anonymously. In 2024, the company had a turnover of 314 million kronor.

The five million from Berntsson constitutes the majority – a full 72 percent – ​​of the Örebro Party's income last year. It is also the largest single private donation to a party in 2025. ———————————————

That’s the entirety of the article the toot references. No idea what it means.

Okay, so no Mullvad, no Proton, no NordVPN... What's left that's not gross or double plus ungood?

For FUCKS sakes...

I used to be a massive proponent of Mullvad, their product is just superior, but fuck this. I'm not supporting that shit.

Sigh

Disappointing.

Shit. So proton vpn it is? Their ceo is also not amazing, I heard. But doesn't sound as bad as this mullvad debacle

Guess I'm going back to AzireVPN.

”This is a donation from me personally”, he writes in an email to Flamman.

It's kinda an interesting platform. I wouldn't call it purely far right, they dip from many different buckets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party

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.

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]

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."

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.

Not that I agree with it or anything. That's some Nazi-level xenophobia in there.

But I can kinda see how a ultra-private VPN founder could be in it.