Sweden's Social Democrat prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, accepted defeat on Wednesday after a close-fought election, handing the four-party right-wing opposition bloc victory and first go at forming a new government.
A handful of votes remain to be counted, but Andersson, who became Sweden's first woman prime minister last year, said the results showed the right bloc had won.
Andersson said she would ask the speaker of parliament on Thursday to relieve her of her duties as prime minister."I will now start the work of forming a new government that can get things done, a government for all of Sweden and all citizens," Kristersson told reporters. Andersson said she understood that many Swedes were worried a party with roots in the white-supremacist fringe was now the country's second biggest party.The Sweden Democrats look set to win 20.6% of the vote, overtaking the Moderates, who got 19.1%, as the biggest party on the right.
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