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    "parsed_content": "AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTSweden Swings Back Left, Bucking a Trend in EuropeThe results of this week\u2019s exceptionally close election dealt a blow to far-right nationalists, who have gained ground elsewhere.Listen \u00b7 4:46 min Share full articleMagdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats, who is likely to be Sweden\u2019s next prime minister, speaking on election night in Stockholm on Sunday.Credit...Jonas Ekstromer\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty ImagesBy Jeffrey Gettleman and Christina AndersonJeffrey Gettleman reported from London and Christina Anderson from Stockholm.Sept. 17, 2026, 8:43 a.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Sweden\u2019s center-left political parties squeaked to victory in elections this week, according to results released on Thursday, making the country one of the first in Europe to tap the brakes on the far right\u2019s seemingly steady march toward power.Voters cast their ballots on Sunday, but the contest was so tight that it took days to count the last stray votes before a conclusion could be reached.The next prime minister is likely to be Magdalena Andersson, leader of Sweden\u2019s stalwart center-left party, the Social Democrats, though experts predicted that there could be weeks of sticky negotiations before the next government is announced.As in other parts of Europe, Swedish nationalists had made big gains in recent elections by railing against migration and blaming migrants for crime.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThis election showed that in Sweden at least, the far right, which was essential to the outgoing center-right coalition\u2019s hold on power, had become a victim of its own success. Experts said the country had cracked down so decisively on crime and migration that it essentially took those issues off the table.\u201cThe general sense is crime is now under control, migration is now under control,\u201d said Lisa Pelling, the director of a progressive research group in Stockholm.The consequence, she said, is that \u201cpeople want something else from the government.\u201dPolls before the election showed that voters were prioritizing health care and education, issues that tend to favor the left.ImagePeople casting their ballots at a polling station in Nacka, Sweden, on Sunday.Credit...Jonathan Nackstrand\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty ImagesAccording to the election results, the center-left won 49.5 percent of the vote, compared to 48.8 percent for the center-right. That gives them a slight edge in Parliament: 176 seats to 173. The turnout was characteristically high, at 85 percent.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMs. Andersson, a familiar face, was chosen as Sweden\u2019s first female prime minister a few years ago and served as finance minister before that, when her Social Democratic Party dominated Swedish politics.Get updates when new midterm election polls are added to our poll trackers. When new polling data drops we\u2019ll send an update straight to your inbox. Get it sent to your inbox.If she can hash out a government in the coming weeks, it is likely to embrace many of the positions the party had pushed before, including what it called a \u201cfeminist foreign policy\u201d that prioritized reproductive freedom and got into tangles with Saudi Arabia over its treatment of women.But forming a government won\u2019t be easy. Sweden\u2019s center-left is a real mishmash. It includes a formerly communist party and a pro-business one influenced by farmers. Parts of the coalition have already voiced doubts about working with each other.And Ms. Andersson\u2019s Social Democrats are coming into this as a weakened force, having earned just 28 percent of the vote, one of their worst performances ever. Social democratic parties across Europe have lost ground to right-wing parties that present themselves as the new protectors of the working class, said Ann-Cathrine Jungar, a political scientist at Sodertorn University in Sweden.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cWhat is noteworthy about this election is that socioeconomic issues were their home turf, and yet they were unable even to maintain their support,\u201d she said of the Social Democrats.Part of the explanation, Ms. Jungar said, may be that center-left politicians have themselves moved toward tougher positions on immigration and crime, driven by the far-right Sweden Democrats, the biggest loser in this election.The Sweden Democrats have tried hard to distance themselves from their neo-Nazi roots. But in this election, they went from being the second most popular party to the third, going from 20.5 percent of the vote in the last election to 17.5 percent this time. It was the party\u2019s first significant erosion of support since it roared onto the scene in the late 1980s, which could raise questions about its future.Jonas Hinnfors, a political scientist at Gothenburg University, said that Swedish society was growing uncomfortable with the extreme positions the far right has been advocating on migration, such as deporting large groups of lawful migrants, including teenagers. That is too extreme for most Swedes, Mr. Hinnfors said, and many people in Sweden have come to appreciate how important migration is for their labor market.\u201cThere is a kind of developing consensus that immigrants are needed,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that is not where the Sweden Democrats are.\u201dHe doesn\u2019t expect the far right to evaporate. But he said this election was \u201ca big blow to them.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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