Next Sunday, September 9thWill be held in Sweden the legislative elections to choose the 349 members of the Riksdag, the local parliament, which in turn will appoint the prime minister. According to the polls, a head-to-head between the social democrats – who have always been the majority in the country – and the Swedish Democrats, a nationalist and populist-inspired party led by Jimmie Akesson (in the photo), which has managed to win ever-increasing consensus with a program full of Euroscepticism and hostility towards immigrants.
From the point of view of the European Union, the Swedish elections represent a significant test case in view of the elections of next May, when citizens of all 27 EU members will be called back to the polls for europee.
The battle to the last vote that is looming in the Scandinavian country foreshadows the clash that is taking shape at the community level: that between the pro-European bloc, which sees its first bishop in the French president Emmanuel Macron, e the sovereign axis which unites Matteo Salvini's League and Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National with the countries of the Visegrad group (Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia).
Despite the foreseeable electoral success (in 2014 they were at 12,9%, while now they are around 18%), the Swedish Democrats should not be in a position to go into government. In fact, all the main parties have already announced that they do not want to collaborate with them, also due to the party's past links with neo-Nazi formations.
On the other hand, all possible coalitions appear very weak, so the most likely outcome of the Swedish elections will be the creation of a minority government led by one of the traditional parties, the Social Democratic Party or the Moderate (centre-right) Party.
