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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Johan Ahlander and Ilze Filks

Once far-right pariah, Sweden Democrats eye kingmaker role

Party leader of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Akesson attends a campaign rally in Vasteras, September 7, 2022. Tim Aro/TT News Agency/via REUTERS

Once shunned by mainstream parties, the anti-immigration, far-right Sweden Democrats look poised to be main power brokers on Sunday, embraced by a right-wing opposition that has come to see them as key to ending nearly a decade of Social Democrat rule.

Its leader Jimmie Akesson's nationalist views and call to "make Sweden good again" coincide with populist gains elsewhere in Europe and the United States and appeal to some voters who relate to his image of a Sweden weighed down by migrants.

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