Sweden far-right makes huge election gains

Al Jazeera ^ | 14 Sep 2014 | Al Jazeera

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Sweden's Social Democrats and their centre-left allies are poised to return to power after defeating the centre-right government, in a general election that also resulted in strong gains for the anti-immigration party.

With all but two voting districts tallied on Sunday, the Social Democrat-led bloc won 43.8 percent of the vote while the ruling centre-right coalition, led by the Moderate Party, gained 39.3 percent.

But the anti-immigration far-right Sweden Democrats were celebrating large gains as the party won 12.9 percent of votes cast - more than doubling the 5.7 percent of votes won in the 2010 election.

"Sweden friends, party friends, now we're Sweden's third-largest party," party leader Jimmie Akesson told cheering supporters.

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> the Social Democrat-led bloc won 43.8 percent of the vote while the ruling centre-right coalition, led by the Moderate Party, gained 39.3 percent... the anti-immigration... Sweden Democrats... won 12.9 percent of votes cast - more than doubling the 5.7 percent of votes won in the 2010 election.

That’s nice, one eighth of all votes cast, and probably a couple of seats in the parliament. That’ll show everybody.

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Far Right? LOL.
The "Sweden Democrats" are allied with "UKIP" in the European Parliament.

As usual the hyperventilating Media is exaggerating. You would think that these folks are like the French National Front. They aren't... This could be interesting to watch the mechanations. If this happened in the UK it would be like Farage's party taking 1/4 of the Conservative seats away. The Left coalition had a net gain of TWO seats... The Current government coalition lost 29. The same number gained by the Sweden Democrats.