The left parties gained a measly 0,6% this election. The reason that the Social Democrats will form government, is that prime minister Reinfeldt promised to resign if his center coalition needed support from the Sweden Democrats to stay in power.
A couple of weeks before the election, prime minister Reinfeldt held a speech where he said that there could be no reforms in the coming years, because we need to allocate vast portions of our budget to pay for the costs caused by refugees arriving from Syria.
To put this in numbers, it's 90,000 muslims arriving each year to a country with a population of 9.6 million. After last years riots in muslim areas of Stockholm, Växjö, Linköping etc, this message might not have been a vote winner.
In other words: Reinfeldt handed 1/4th of his voters to the Sweden Democrats on a silver plate.
(For the record, I don't support the Sweden Democrats, even if the past years have made me an anti islamist. Sorry for the previous opposition Skybird, but finally I see things your way.)
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