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The Social Democrats make strong progress in the regional election in Stockholm and increase by nearly 7 percentage points. At the same time, the Moderates are backing down for the second election in a row, and the party’s 16-year rule may now be coming to an end.
When 1,194 out of 1,412 electoral districts were counted in the Stockholm region, it was clear that S with 32.9 percent of the votes strengthened its position in the regional council after 16 years in opposition.
Together with the Left Party, the red block gets 43.7 percent. The moderates, who lost just under 1.5 percentage points down to 20.8, together with the other bourgeois parties, all of whom are backing down, get 39.6 percent.
Even the Green Party, which has been part of a blue-green coalition government for the past four years, is diving. They go from 5.63 percent to 3.7 percent. But before the election, they did not want to choose a side before the voters had their say.
– We want to sit on the board where we have the greatest influence, said MP’s regional candidate Anton Fendert, to Dagens Nyheter this week.
The Sweden Democrats, on the other hand, are increasing slightly in the Stockholm regional elections; from 9.74 percent to a preliminary 11.1. According to Svenska Dagbladet, however, both blocs have said no to cooperation with the party.
But if the SD is neither to enter into any cooperation nor to become wave master, new coalitions are required if the Moderates are not to end up in opposition. The question of who will govern the region for the next four years remains. No one has yet declared themselves the winner.