Legislative in Sweden: very close partial results, the right in position to win

Published on: 09/12/2022 – 00:00 Swedish voters voted on Sunday in legislative elections dominated by themes of crime and inflation. According to still partial results, the bloc formed by the right and the far right enjoys a very slight lead over the left of outgoing Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson. The legislative elections in Sweden placed the outgoing left neck and neck on Sunday, September 11 with the unprecedented bloc between the right and the far right, with a final result which could be played out with only one or two seats, according to results. partial.While the exit polls gave the left a small lead, the right led by the conservative Ulf Kristersson, supported by the extreme right Sweden Democrats (SD), is now in a position to win. Based on the votes counted around 11:30 p.m. (9:30 p.m. GMT) covering three-quarters of the polling stations, it would obtain exactly an absolute majority of 175 seats, for 49.7% of the vote. The left-wing camp led by Social Democrat Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson is credited with 174 seats, with 48.8% of the vote, according to the tally carried out by the electoral authority. Long night A long night is coming to clarify a result that has become increasingly uncertain over of the evening, with differences that could be played out with a few tens of thousands, or even thousands of votes. According to the partial results, the Democrats of Sweden become for the first time the second party in the Nordic country, crossing the 20% mark . They sign the strongest progression of the eight parties present in Parliament. Never until these legislative elections, the traditional Swedish right, carried by the conservative candidate for the post of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, had not envisaged to govern with the direct support or indirect SD. Long pariah, the nationalist and anti-immigration party led by Jimmie Akesson also won first place in the new right-wing bloc. term of four years in a row for the left. According to the partial results, the Social Democrats keep as expected their first place occupied since the 1930s, winning votes (30.4%). The conservative Moderates would fall back slightly and would be only the third party, with 19.0% of the vote. Crime and energy A victory for the right supported by the far right would mean a new political era for Sweden, must take the rotating presidency of the European Union on January 1 and finalize its historic candidacy for NATO. Conversely, a new victory for the left would call into question the decision of the right to draw closer to the SD, seen as the only possible way to return to power.Important immigration and deadly settling of scores between criminal gangs in the Swedish suburbs have fueled the far-right party in recent years. These themes, along with soaring fuel and electricity prices, dominated the campaign. Sweden facing the gang war © AFP With AFP