The left and right blocks came neck and neck. Final results are expected on Wednesday.
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Who will govern Sweden? The country begins Monday, September 12 a three-day wait to designate the winning camp of its arch-serrated legislative elections, with the right and the far right in a position to conquer power together. Subscribed to repeated political crises in recent years, the Nordic country finds itself again in a phase of uncertainty to form a government, with a majority that still looks very narrow.
After an evening of incredible results, the electoral authority of the Scandinavian country warned that the final verdict of the ballot should wait for Wednesday, as the scores are tight. According to the partial results covering nearly 95% of the polling stations, the bloc led by the leader of the conservative party of the Moderates Ulf Kristersson would win an absolute majority of 175 to 176 seats, against 173 to 174 seats for the left bloc of the Outgoing Social Democrat Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson.
If these scores were confirmed, the left would leave power after eight years at the helm. The big winner of the evening is the nationalist anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) party led by Jimmie Akesson. With a provisional score of 20.7%, it sets a new record and becomes the first right-wing party but also the second party in Sweden.
While the exit polls and the first preliminary results suggested a narrow victory for the left at the start of the evening, the rights went ahead as the counts progressed and now seem to be on the way to winning.
Based on the votes counted until the middle of the night, the right-wing bloc (SD, Moderates, Christian Democrats and Liberals) would win 49.8% of the vote. The left bloc (Social Democrats, Left Party, Greens and Center Party) would gather 48.8%. That is about 60,000 votes only behind, for an electorate of 7.8 million people.