Far-right Sweden Democrats could make it into government for the first time
Progressive forces look to lock in a long-promised majority after an election campaign that saw the incumbent right-win bloc regain momentum in the last minute.
More than 3.5 million people, around 45% of Sweden’s eligible voters, had already voted for one of the eight parties in the running through advance voting before polling stations opened early on Sunday.
“This is a very important election for Sweden,” Magdalena Andersson, the leader of the Social Democrats and a former prime minister, told reporters after voting in Stockholm on Sunday.
The election, she said, would determine whether Sweden gets a government led by her or one containing the Sweden Democrats, a party with roots in Sweden’s neo-Nazi fringe.
