Preliminary results: The final tally will not be known until Wednesday, but as of Monday morning, this is the result of the Swedish general election 2018
Daily Mail: Sweden faces political chaos after surge of far-right votes makes it impossible to predict who will take control - but all main parties REFUSE to share power with anti-migrant party
* Sweden is facing weeks of coalition talks after neither major bloc wins majority to form a government
* Far-right Sweden Democrats won 17.6 per cent of the vote after immigration dominated the campaign
* Ruling Social Democrats remain largest party at 28.4 per cent but with lowest share since 1908
* Leaders of all the seven other parties with seats in parliament have ruled out forming a government with SD
Sweden is facing weeks - if not months - of political uncertainty and complex coalition talks after neither of the country's two main blocs were able to secure a majority in yesterday's general election.
Several mainstream parties lost support in favour of the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD), who won 17.6 per cent of the vote amid growing discontent with large-scale immigration.
Despite the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats' gains, up from 12.9 per cent in the last election, all other parties stand firm in their refusal to govern alongside them.
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Swedish Election Results -- News Roundup September 10, 2018
Sweden faces weeks of uncertainty after close election -- AP
Swedish election: Main blocs neck and neck as nationalists gain -- BBC
Sweden’s ruling party hits election low as far right grows -- AP
Sweden faces political deadlock as far right makes gains -- France 24
Sweden's general election results in stalemate as far-right support surges -- DW
Sweden election: Political deadlock likely after gains by far-right party -- ABC News Online
Sweden faces political impasse after far-right election gains -- Reuters
Sweden seeks way out of political gridlock after far-right gains -- Sweden
Sweden faces political impasse after far-right election gains -- Johan Sennero and Simon Johnson, Sweden
3 comments:
As always the party on the right, is termed "far right" but the parties on the left are termed "center left" or "left". Its as if every European party that wants to reverse migration from Arab lands is a goose stepping, gas chamber loving NAZI. With about 18% of the vote this by any definition is a fringe party but guess what the Social Democrats at about 28% are too. I see no upside to the Sweden Democrats to join in a coalition even if the others reversed themselves and asked them in. Not yet.
While I am pro immigrant on principle - to a limit that doesn't endanger the home population - I must agree that the language is often inflammatory and misleading. If you disagree with my relative pro immigration stance, it doesn't make you "far" right. Im not even sure this is a right or left issue. It's just that the media spins it as such that the people on the right are "nation loving/defending" , which gets mixed up with far right nationalism which gets mixed up with Nazis.
But yeah on every channel from cnn to msnbc if a talking head calls someone who has different thoughts on immigration a nazi, or far right, no correction is needed.
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