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Sweden's centre-left opposition wins election, SVT says

Sweden's centre-left opposition wins election, SVT says

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Sweden just rejected the far right, and that's the headline. Voters looked at a prime minister who promised to hand ministerial posts to a party with neo-Nazi roots, and the Sweden Democrats lost ground while the Social Democrats stayed the country's biggest party. A one-seat majority is still a majority, and it's a mandate to pull Sweden back from Europe's harshest migration crackdown.

Winning by 26,000 votes and a single seat out of 349 is no mandate for a left turn. Even the Centre Party admits the result gives no license for a leftward lurch, and a bloc that squabbles over tax policy and whether the Left Party gets cabinet seats can't govern anything. A coalition this fragile will collapse into the same paralysis that once took Sweden 134 days to sort out.

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