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Sweden far-right makes huge election gains
Al Jazeera ^
| 14 Sep 2014
| Al Jazeera
Posted on 09/14/2014 4:55:18 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
> 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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09/15/2014 12:17:21 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Viennacon
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.
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09/15/2014 11:37:30 AM PDT
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BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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