Sweden's far-right rises amid immigration debate

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish far-right party demanding sharp cuts in immigration has more than doubled its support in a parliamentary election.

Ironically, the surge for the far-right Sweden Democrats means the country’s government itself is poised to shift to the left, since many of the Sweden Democrats’ new voters defected from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt’s center-right coalition. That left Stefan Lofven’s Social Democrats and its smaller partners as the top vote-getter in Sunday’s election.