Elections in Sweden: the far right at the gates of power

Lis the Swedish model cracking? With its generous welfare state, its moderate political class, the country has long represented the quintessence of prosperous and peaceful social democracy. Polls and electoral campaigns were held there in a hushed manner and made it possible to establish, every four years, a balance of power between the country’s two major parties: the Social Democrats of the current Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and the moderate party conservatives. Since the 1980s, these two formations have provided all of the country’s prime ministers and allowed it to enjoy a jealous stability in the rest of Europe and the world.

This model is changing and the legislative elections on Sunday, September 11 are taking on the air of…