Opposition blue bloc leads in Swedish parliamentary elections
STORY: Opposition blue bloc leads in Swedish parliamentary elections
DATELINE: Sept. 12, 2022
LENGTH: 00:01:00
LOCATION: Stockholm
CATEGORY: POLITICS
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1. various of polling station in Sweden
STORYLINE:
Preliminary results of the 2022 Swedish parliamentary elections showed early Monday morning that the opposition blue bloc gained 49.7 percent of votes, narrowly heading in the race.
The blue bloc comprises the Moderate Party, the Christian Democrats, the Liberal Party and the Sweden Democrats.
The red bloc of the Social Democratic Party, the Left Party, the Green Party, and the Centre Party gained 48.8 percent of votes.
With 92 percent of the votes counted, the blue bloc had gathered 176 parliamentary seats against 173 for the red bloc. There are 349 seats in the Swedish parliament and votes cast outside of Sweden would be counted later this week.
STANDUP (English) FU YIMING, Xinhua correspondent
"Sweden has a population of over 10 million, of which about 7 million are statutory voters.
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