The Sweden Democrats or Swedish Democrats (Swedish: Sverigedemokraterna, SD) is a political party in Sweden that was founded in 1988. The party describes itself as social conservative with a nationalist foundation, but has been characterised by others as far-right, right-wing populist, and anti-immigration. Since 2005 its party chairman has been Jimmie Åkesson, while Richard Jomshof is party secretary (since 2015) and Mattias Karlsson (since 2014) is the parliamentary group leader.