Europe Elects

[on-hold music] Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the Europe Elects podcast with me, Gabriel Hedengren, and my colleague and friend, Cavid伊巴特.

Hi, Cavid.

Hi, Gabriel.

It was a really interesting campaign leading up to this result, and we'll go through that in a bit more detail, too.

It was very sort of scattered and focused on the future government formation questions as well as tactical voting concerns, particularly tied to the threshold.

It's worth noting that for pe-people that follow Europe Elects coverage and the polls that we put out regularly, polling in Sweden for the last few years have indicated a very comfortable, stable lead for the central left opposition bloc.

Essentially from one month after the last election until July, really August, there was a very comfortable lead, you know, sometimes up to 10 percentage points, and that just completely then shifted during the election campaign, leading instead to this very narrow victory.

A lot of people claim that that's to do with the Social Democrats' approach.