The Prime Minister’s Social Democratic Party of Sweden (PSS) Magdalena Andersson It has been the most voted in the legislative elections held this Sunday with 29.3% of the votes, according to the survey of the Swedish public television STV. Behind would be the far-right party Swedish Democrats (DS) with 20.5%, while the Moderate Party (PM) would keep 18.8%. The Social Democrats would improve their results by one point compared to the last elections, while the extreme right would grow three points and the moderates would fall one.
With these data, a possible center left coalition would have obtained 49.8% of the vote, while the right-wing alliance would obtain 49.2%. In terms of seats, the center-left would achieve 176 seats and the right, 173, according to the STV projection. The majority is located in 176 seats, half plus one of the 349 that make up the Parliamentthe Swedish unicameral parliament
The electoral campaign was marked by the equality that the polls between the left-wing government bloc and the right-wing opposition pointed out. A little difference between blocks that threatens another drama electoral like the one in 2018, when the difference was one seat and we had to wait a week for a definitive result, harbinger of a tough negotiations to form a government, which lasted 134 days, a record in Swedish history.
The “cordon sanitaire” that the rest of the parties have done to the extreme right since its arrival in Parliament in 2010 is what explains why the Social Democrats, who have led the country in 69 of the last 86 years, have been able to govern the last two legislatures despite the fact that there was a centre-right majority in the House,
In the latter it was necessary pact of the social democrats and their environmental allies with centrists and liberals, breaking the center-right alliance that existed since 2004, to maintain the isolation of the SD, which has been cracking.
Conservatives, Christian Democrats and Liberalswho have changed sides again, now agree to agree with the extreme rightalthough they keep their refusal to be part of a hypothetical governmenta rejection that could be difficult to maintain in case the SD unseats the conservatives in second place.
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The leader of the SD, Jimmie Åkessondeclared today to public television SVT that, in the event of an opposition victory, his starting point is to enter the Government to give stability to the country after two legislatures of minority executives. “We Social Democrats have shown that we can collaborate with different partieseven in difficult times,” he said after voting in Neck (outside Stockholm) Anderssonwhich excluded the SD from any negotiations.
The 7.7 million Swedes called to the ballots This Sunday they vote from 8:00 local time (6:00 GMT) at the polling stations, which will be open until 8:00 p.m. (18:00 GMT). The Electoral Authority has warned that there could be vote counting delaysbecause there have been long queues at schools in different cities.