stockholm
Swedes are used to suspense elections.
In 2018, the gap was so small between right and left that it took four months for the Social Democrats to form a government.
Sunday, the exit polls and the first counts still gave a slight advantage to the left, before the almost final results fell on Wednesday evening: Ulf Kristersson, leader of the right-wing party of the Moderates, will be able to present his candidacy for the post of prime minister.
The three small majority votes he enjoys in Parliament are brought to him by his 68 Moderate deputies… and by the 73 elected members of the Democrats of Sweden, the extreme right-wing party.
This shows the importance of the earthquake: not only did the classic right accept the support of the extreme right, a first in this Scandinavian country, but it was overtaken by the Democrats of Sweden, who became the second party in the country in garnering 20.6% of the votes.
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