The Prime Minister of Sweden, the Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson, announced this Wednesday (14) that she will present her resignation on Thursday (15) after the confirmation of the defeat of the center-left bloc against the right-wing opposition in the legislative elections. of Sunday.
With 99.7% of the electoral districts counted, the right-wing opposition won the elections by three seats, 176 to 173, according to the most recent count by the Electoral Authority, which includes foreign votes and early votes sent on time, but which did not arrive in time.
The Social Democrats, the most voted party in recent elections, managed to defend their first position and reached 30.4% of the vote, two points more than in 2018.
In second place were the right-wing Sweden Democrats (SD), with 20.6%, three points higher than in 2018 and ahead of opposition leader Ulf Kristersson’s conservatives, who fell seven tenths to 19.1%.
“Almost all the votes have been counted, but the preliminary result of the election is pretty clear,” Andersson told a news conference, in which he predicted it would be a “tough” and “complicated” legislature due to the small difference.
The Social Democrat leader also highlighted that her party had a “solid” electoral result and that it is “clearly” the largest in Sweden.
The final result puts the opposition bloc with 49.6% of the votes against 49% of the center-left and the difference between the blocs goes from one to three seats, in relation to the preliminary result released on Monday.
On Monday, just over 44,500 votes separated the two blocs, which remained cautious these days while awaiting the final result, although the four parties of the right-wing bloc have held meetings and the Swedish media has already begun to speculate about the possible distribution of folders.
In the final count, the SD was the big winner of the elections: not only was it the force that grew the most, but also took the leadership of the right-wing bloc away from the conservatives, who had occupied it since 1979, and will have a direct influence on the formation of the government after a decade of isolation.
The Swedish media are publicizing the possibility that Conservatives and Christian Democrats will form a minority executive, headed by Kristersson and supported from the outside by the other forces in the bloc.
However, the SD has claimed a “central” role and intends to “be part of the government”, as its leader, Jimmie Åkesson, said on election night.
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