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Far Right Makes Gains in Sweden

September 12, 2022 at 5:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The far-right Sweden Democrats party was the big winner in the country’s election on Sunday, increasing its share of the vote by two to three percentage points and becoming the second largest party, but the overall result was too close to call as counting continued,” The Guardian reports.

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