Swedish Parliamentary Election

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September 14, 2014 by sagarmedia

Swede polls may be showing the left-leaning Social Democrats poised to return to power.

Sweden seven million eligible voters  to choose the 349 MPs .

Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Moderate party leader,  headed the ruling center-right alliance for eight years is under huge pressure to retain power, as the center-left alliance, headed by Sweden’s biggest and famed Social Democratic party, is still heading by a five percent in the latest poll.

People advance voting began in Sweden on Aug. 27. Preliminary results are expected to be announced later tonight, and the final election results is scheduled on Sept. 18.

In case the  poll opinion prove absolute right, Stefan Loefven to become the next prime minister of the Nordic region’s  country, replacing incumbent Fredrik Reinfeldt of the center-right.

However the Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt,  reign begins 2006, the eight long serving conservative leader in Swedish history. Fredrik  is respected internationally for taking  Sweden’s economy crisis in relatively better shape than EU counterparts.

Swedes worry his pro-market policies have undermined the welfare system. Reinfeldt’s center-right coalition government has cut income and corporate taxes, abolished a tax on wealth, trimmed welfare benefits, eased labor laws. Government did privatized state-owned companies, including the maker of Absolut vodka.

But gap between  have and have not grown faster in Sweden than in most developed countries, although it remains among the world’s most egalitarian, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.  Parliamentary polls opened across the country at 8 a.m. and were to close 8 p.m. Media agencies