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(10 Sep 2018) Sweden is facing weeks of political uncertainty after the country's two rival blocs failed to secure a governing majority in elections that saw a boost for a far-right party amid growing discontent with large-scale immigration.
With most of the ballots counted, the governing centre-left bloc has a razor-thin edge over the centre-right opposition Alliance, with roughly 40 percent each.
Sunday's election saw the Sweden Democrats, an anti-immigrant party with roots in a neo-Nazi movement, win about 18 percent, up from the 13 percent it gained four years earlier.
The party, which has worked to moderate its image in past years, gained on a backlash against the challenges of integrating hundreds of thousands of immigrants that arrived in the Scandinavian nation of 10 million over the past years.
The newspaper headlines don't mince words – "Chaos" "Losers' Match" and "Lofven – I won't resign" while a sampling of voters expressed a mix of fear and soul-searching amid Stockholm's rush hour on Monday.
Agneta Nyhulm, a voter, said she herself was grappling with just what new form of governance can go forward in a political system she feels no longer functions.
Nyhulm said she was bitterly opposed to the policies and rhetoric of the Far Right's Sweden Democrats.
But she cautioned that the fears that led voters to support them can't simply be ignored by the mainstream parties.
Sweden - home to the Nobel prizes and militarily neutral for the better part of the last two centuries - has been known for its comparatively open doors to migrants and refugees.
Sunday's general election was the first since Sweden, which has a population of 10 million, took in a record 163,000 refugees in 2015 - the highest per capita of any European country.

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