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Far right party, Sweden Democrats experience some of its biggest falls in recent opinion polling

Sunday, 28 April 2013

In a new statistically significant poll conducted to test the political climate in Sweden, presented recently, far right party, Sweden Democrats is seeing its political fortunes fading.

The poll conducted by polling organisation Ipsos in April for the Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter show that support for the far right party nationwide fell to 6.7 percent, a statistically significant decline since peaking in February.

For two months now the party has achieved continues support and had hit 10 percent in past opinion polls. Violent tendencies of the party's big wigs and president dismissals as a result of racial slurs have repelled interests.

Sweden Democrats led the Green Party and was for five months, the third largest party.

But in March things started turning down. The decline continued in April, according to the Ipsos survey when the party started calling it self-social conservative. This brought them now to 6.7 percent.

The Red-Green coalition, the Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Green Party and - together get 47.9 per cent against 43.9 per cent for the four government parties.

Stefan Löfven who is challenging Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on the record, is still waiting for the big boost in the opinion polls. Social Democrats stands at 33.7 percent, a good distance from the 40 per cent level the party exhibited in 2008 under Mona Sahlin's party leadership.

Some authorities feel that the attractiveness of the Social Democrats has slowed a bit. Notably, the party stopped growing before the election defeat in 2010.

Lower on the other hand has been the Conservatives Moderates receiving 29.5 per cent against 32.1 per cent in April 2009.

By Scancomark.com Team

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