It gave Nooshi Dadgostar (V) headaches during the election campaign - but may have benefited the party in vulnerable areas. In Rosengård in Malmö, several voters say the Palestine issue was decisive when they cast their ballots: “They are waging war on our religion,” says one voter on election day.
Swedish politicsIn parts of the areas around Järvafältet in Stockholm, the Left Party would have an outright majority in the Riksdag. V politician Ilyas Hassan, who has developed a new suburban policy for the party, sees several reasons. The Social Democrats are passé here, he says.
Swedish politicsSD is the party that is losing the most in the parliamentary elections. The party is losing in 285 of Sweden's 290 municipalities. It is a surprisingly large decline, says political scientist Andreas Johansson Heinö.
Swedish politicsThe Nyans party risks losing the two municipal councils in which it has had representatives since the last election.
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