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Sweden’s far right is down, but not yet out. Left and centre leaders must seize this opportunity | Cas Mudde

The danger is that other parties just channel the far right – and that will make them vulnerable. Better to fully commit to a progressive agendaAfter the previous Swedish general election, in 2022, the leaders of the two biggest Swedish parties made a risky decision. Jimmie Åkesson, the leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD), chose to support the rightwing minority government of the Moderate party prime minister Ulf Kristersson, while Magdalena Andersson, the Social Democrats’ leader, decided to copy…

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