Career
From 2007 to 2010, he was chairman of the Sweden Democratic Youth. During this years the membership and activity rise significantly as a result of a more activist approach, which began in the autumn of 2008 when it conducted a square meeting tour against Swedish hostility, during which Almqvist spoke and said that there was a structural hostility against Swedes that was hidden by "the establishment". The campaign was marked by widespread and violent counter-demonstrations.
On January 17, 2012 Almqvist took office as economic policy spokesman for his party.
The former spokesman was criticized for being a weak debater and was replaced. Almqvist was highlighted in April 2009 for a video from a conference trip with the youth league, where he and William Petzäll, then vice chairman of the youth league, sang and listened to songs from so-called white power music
In June 2010, Almqvist was involved in an altercation with comedian Soran Ismail. In November 2012 the newspaper Expressen followed up the quarrel with Ismail, and could show unedited footage from the event, where Almqvist said that Ismail has a "behaviour like a babbe" (in Swedish, babbe is an invective word for an immigrant) and used epithets like "pussy".
He also called a young Swedish woman for "a little whore".
South Dakota has criticized Expressen for "cuttings and pastings" in the footage and that they do not want to show all the filmed material. This event led to his resignation from the position as economic policy spokesman for the party and his place in the executive committee of the party and in the party board. He resigned from the Riksdag and renounced his membership in the Sweden Democrats on 21 February 2013.
He now lives in Budapest, Hungary.
