Iran Press/ Europe: In a major shift in Swedish politics, the Sweden Democrats, who were once shunned by the citizens due to being founded in the 1980s by neo-Nazis, garnered nearly 20 per cent of the vote.
Swedish prim minister Magdalena Andersson who was the Nordic country's first woman prime minister and led the nation’s historic bid to join NATO, announced she is steping down.
The right bloc of four parties - Moderates, Sweden Democrats, Christian Democrats and Liberals had held a one-seat lead after Sunday's election but looked like getting 176 seats in the 349-seat parliament to the centre-left's 173 seats.
Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the Moderates, is expected to lead the bloc and form a government. "Now we will get Sweden in order," he wrote on Facebook.
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Sweden's right-wing bloc on the verge of victory
