An exit poll is projecting that nearly one in five Swedish voters backed an anti-immigrant party with white supremacist roots in the Scandinavian country’s election. An exit poll is projecting that nearly one in five Swedish voters backed an anti-immigrant party with white supremacist roots in the Scandinavian country’s election. Far-right anti-immigrant party ‘wins one in five votes’ in Swedish electionHowever, Swedish broadcaster SVT said its poll from Sunday’s election indicates that the centre-left Social Democrats governing Sweden now would remain the largest party in parliament. If the exit poll results carry over to the official count, the far-right Sweden Democrats would be the second-largest party in parliament. Jimmie Akesson, leader of the right-wing nationalist Sweden Democrats party, prepares to vote in Stockholm (Stina Stjernkvist/TT via AP)The poll gave the party 19.2% of the vote.

Source: Irish Independent September 09, 2018 18:36 UTC