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Swedish politics shifting towards the far right, as the Sweden Democrats make huge gained in opinion polls

Sunday, 14 October 2012
Swedish political scene is now gradually shifting towards the far rights as the far right party, Sweden Democrats makes more gains in opinion polls.

In a poll published on Sunday conducted by polling organisation Sifo, for the Swedish newspapers, Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten, support for Sweden Democrats continue to increase in October.

The poll shows that Sweden Democrats now stand at 7.7 percent support thus becoming the fourth largest parliamentary party. The polls also shows that opposition parties Social Democrats, the Left Party and the Green Party, together are now the larger political bloc than the ruling alliance - gaining 6.4 percentage points.

Social Democrats showed the largest drop, minus 1.2 percentage points, while the Green Party gained the most, 1.1 percent. The Christian Democrats, will not have access to the parliament with a 3.4 percent of voter support if elections were to be held today.

Political Party	Voter Support	Change *
The Greens	10	1.1
Moderates	28.8	0.1
Centre	4.4	-0.4
People's party	5.6	-1
Christian Democrats	3.4	-0.4
Sweden Democts	7.7	0.5
Coalition
Social democrats	32.1	-1.2
The Left Party	6.5	0.6
Red- Green (Opposition)	48.6	0.5
The Alliance (Governing)	42.2	-1.7

* Change in percentage points since the previous survey in September.
Source: Sifo, published in the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten

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