Europe | Still standing

The anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats fail to break through

But they did well enough at the election to make forming a new government hard

Sep 13th 2018|STOCKHOLM

ELECTION day, September 9th, looked like a festival in Rinkeby, a largely immigrant neighbourhood of social-housing projects outside Stockholm. On the pedestrian shopping square, Somali-Swedes in niqabs and Eritrean-Swedes in leather jackets milled about between the parties’ campaign booths. A stream of voters marched towards the local school to cast their ballots. Turnout was high, said Ismahan Abdulahi, a Somali-Swedish woman canvassing for the centre-left Social Democrats.

This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Still standing”