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Kent Ekeroth told Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) that the Scandinavian country should learn from Hungary because they have “no immigration”.

According to an official report by the governmental Swedish Pensions Agency, an estimated 180,000 immigrants arrived in the Scandinavian country last year.

Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long adopted an anti-immigration rhetoric, especially in the lead up to the elections on April 8 where he is seeking a third consecutive term.

The country has responded to the influx of migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa who travelled across southeast Europe in 2015 via Hungary with a border fence and strong opposition to EU proposals to settle migrants in member states under a quota system.

Last week, Mr Orban told a rally attended by tens of thousands of supporters in Budapest that they must fight the "external forces and international powers" who want to allow mass immigration into the country.