Prime minister says Sweden Democrats entering government would change tone of politics
Photograph: Jessica Gow/APPhotograph: Jessica Gow/APweden’s Social Democratic prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, has said the country is at a pivotal moment as it prepares for its most critical election in years, in which rightwing populists with neo-Nazi roots are likely to become the second biggest party.
A second-place result for the Sweden Democrats could lead to a coalition with the Moderates, an established centre-right party that has moved to embrace the populists. In other examples, she cited a television interview in February in which the party’s leader, Jimmie Åkesson, refused to say whether he preferred Joe Biden or Vladimir Putin, and Åkesson’s recent criticism of the Centre party leader Annie Lööf’s tone after she was the suspected target of a terror attack.
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