Swedish politics looked to have taken a shift to the right on Sunday as the nationalist Sweden Democrats took their biggest ever share of votes in a general election
The nationalist Sweden Democrats took their biggest-ever share of votes in a general election Sunday, with preliminary results giving the center-right bloc of parties a slim majority over the incumbent center-left government.
With an estimated 20.6% of ballots cast, according to a preliminary count of the majority of constituencies, the Sweden Democrats have become the biggest party in the center-right bloc and the second-biggest party in the country overall. “We really are a big party today. From a small…party that everyone laughed at to really challenging.”Meli Petersson Ellafi/Zuma Press
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