According to opinion polls, the party blocs of the leader of the Social Democrats, current Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, and the leader of the moderate coalition, Ulf Kristersson, are exactly equal.
In Sunday’s election, the chairman of the moderate coalition will compete for the position of Sweden’s next prime minister Ulf Kristersson and leader of the Social Democrats Magdalena Andersson will meet today in a duel on Swedish television SVT. You can follow the debate live in connection with this article or in Areena from 21:00.
The meeting between current Prime Minister Andersson and Kristersson, who leads the largest opposition party, is of particular interest, because opinion polls (you switch to another service) based on this, the situation between the party blocs is practically level a few days before the parliamentary elections.
Both Andersson’s red-green bloc and Kristersson’s bloc of bourgeois parties and Sweden Democrats would, for example, be published by Dagens Nyheter opinion survey (you will switch to another service) on the basis of receiving approximately 49 percent support.
In addition to the Social Democrats, Andersson’s bloc includes the Left Party, the Center Party and the Environmental Party. In Kristersson’s bloc, in addition to the moderate coalition, there are Sweden Democrats, Christian Democrats and liberals.
The fact that the Sweden Democrats have increased their support past the coalition and have been the largest of the parties in the right-wing bloc in several measurements brings its own additional spice to the situation.
Aftonbladet (you switch to another service) according to the Democrats, there was already time to propose that the leader of the Sweden Democrats be invited to the party leaders’ duel instead of Kristersson Jimmie Åkesson. Due to the positions taken by other parties, however, Åkesson has practically no chance of becoming prime minister, even if the Sweden Democrats’ support in the elections is greater than the moderate coalition.