Now the EU election is finally counted. And it is clear that the SD candidate Maria Rosander fell short and Dick Erixon takes a seat in parliament.
All 6,589 electoral districts have now been counted by the county administrative boards around the country. In a few hours, the Election Authority believes it can confirm the result of the EU election and announce it officially.
The Left Party, with profile Jonas Sjöstedt at the helm, was the election's big winner. The party received 11 per cent and increased the most of all parties.
The big loser was the Sweden Democrats, which dropped by more than 2 percentage points to 13.2 per cent. The party's explanation is that they failed to mobilise their voters.
Questioning IPCC
Within the SD, a thrilling cross-voting battle also took place about who would take the party's third and final mandate. Profile and third name on the list, Dick Erixon, was long threatened by fifteenth name Maria Rosander. But when all was finally counted, she lacked around 480 personal votes to cross-vote her way past.
But we have a parliamentary election waiting in 2026 and I am naturally very interested in being given the opportunity to represent the party there if this doesn't work out, said Rosander to Expressen before the count was clear.
Erixon, who has already left for Brussels, thinks that one should be able to cooperate with Russia-friendly parties in the EU parliament.
To DN, he also says that one cannot know if humans are behind climate change and he questions the reports from the UN's climate panel IPCC.
It's like they say: if you put crap into the computer, then you get crap out. It's just calculations.
Corazza defeated
Also within The Liberals, a tight personal battle took place about who would take the party's only mandate in the EU parliament. In the end, it was top name Karin Karlsbro who retained the seat ahead of Anna Maria Corazza Bildt.
During Sweden's nearly 30 years in the EU, eight Swedish candidates have cross-voted their way into the EU parliament. Two examples are the former KD leader Alf Svensson, who in 2009 took a seat from ninth place, and the Social Democrat Anna Hedh, who in 2004 distinguished herself with EU-critical politics and took a seat from 31st place.
