STORY: Fredrik Reinfeldt, who has been Sweden's prime minister for eight years, cast his vote in the general election on Sunday (September 14).
Polls showed the center-left opposition heading for a narrow election victory on a platform of increased spending on job schemes, healthcare and schools after eight years of tax cuts under the center-right Alliance.
The Social Democrats, the largest single party and polling around 30 percent, hope to rule with the Green Party.
Many Swedes are worried that reforms under the Alliance government have gone too far, weakening healthcare, allowing business to profit from schools at the expense of results and dividing a nation that has prided itself on equality between the haves and have-nots.
The opposition has been in the lead in the opinion polls for a long time but one poll late on Saturday (September 13) put the gap between the center-left and the four-party Alliance government at ju
