Sweden’s Incredibly Close Election Explained

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Sweden’s election was too close to call in the polls, but the Red-Green bloc appear to have beaten the incumbent Tidö alliance and intra-bloc fighting could make forming a new coalition difficult. So what happened? And what does it mean for the future?

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