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Please be kind to your Swedish friends tomorrow 🇸🇪 We’ll all be suffering a hangover of historic proportions 🗳️

If the governing coalition wins, some will mourn the prospect of a party founded by literal Nazis joining the government, and others will celebrate.

If they lose, the process of forming a new government could drag on for a long time, and might fail, since the center-right have said they won’t join a coalition that includes the left, and the left refuses to support a government of which they are not part.

Things could get ugly: the leader of the Sweden Democrats has already said he’ll blame an election loss on the Muslim population, now that they have the temerity to vote in free and open elections.

Polls are closing in half an hour, right?

SVT seems to be saying that their exit poll will only be published an hour after polls close. Is that true, and if so why?

I assume it takes them a while to tabulate the results? The exit poll consists of 50ish questions and I’m guessing they want to run a bunch of analyses.

But everywhere else has exit polls to give an indication of likely outcome as polls close. This sounds just weird.