[5][6][7] Åkerlund was voted into the Riksdag in the general elections in 2010, for the Blekinge electoral district in seat no. 90.

[8] In 2013 Åkerlund gained attention after a recording of him was discovered dating from 2002 in which he called immigrants "parasites" during a broadcast on SD's own radio station.

In the same recording he made jokes about sending half a million home and suggested most immigrants lied on their residency applications.

[9] After his remarks had become more publicly known in 2013, he stated that he had said them to provoke people but described his words as "immature" and claimed "I said an awful lot of things at the time that I don't stand behind at all today.

"[9] In 2014 he was criticised by SD party leader Jimmie Åkesson after he was seen acting in a threatening manner towards a female journalist in the Riksdag.