Ulf Kristersson

So what?  The Sweden Democrats losing ground rather than consolidating cuts against the scenario this brief flagged Sunday morning — the party entering cabinet for the first time — and a razor-thin, still-uncalled result makes a swift coalition of either stripe less likely regardless of which bloc ultimately prevails. A change in government would matter for liaison continuity on Nordic border and customs cooperation, which has run smoothly under the current government; a change in the party actually holding the interior or justice portfolio is the specific signal to watch once a coalition forms.