With some early votes and votes from abroad still to be counted, the balance could yet swing back to the left
because of their roots in the neo-Nazi movement, and their racially polarising anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Yet the party has increased its share of the vote in every election since. Jimmie Akesson, the’s leader, has tried to purge flagrant bigots, though scandals keep occurring. Most recently, a local candidate quit the party after a news site discovered he had shared racist jokes about lynchings and bestiality.
The Moderates, who took 19.1% of the vote, have historically been the largest of the “bourgeois” parties, as Sweden’s conservatives are known. They and their bourgeois allies, the much smaller Christian Democrats and Liberals, are willing to form a government that relies on thesd Another reason Sweden is unlikely to lurch sharply towards strident nationalism is that it has already moved some way in that direction. The past few governments, led by the Social Democrats, curtailed the generous immigration and asylum policies that Sweden had before the migrant crisis of 2015-16. They also hired more police and increased penalties for—something voters associate with immigrants.
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