Sweden’s economic recovery has helped boost the government’s popularity Voters in Sweden are set to go to the polls, with the centre-right coalition expected to win re-election.
A far-right party is also tipped to win seats in parliament for the first time, on an anti-immigration ticket.
But analysts says a strong swing to the right could cost PM Fredrik Reinfeldt’s Alliance for Sweden its majority.
The government is riding high in opinion polls against the Social-Democrats and their allies, following tax cuts and a strong recovery.
Mr Reinfeldt has urged Swedes to vote tactically in Sunday’s election to keep out the far-right.
The prime minister said he did not want to speculate on how his Alliance for Sweden coalition would deal with the Sweden Democrats if they get into parliament.
Both main political blocs have said they would rather co-operate with each other than form a coalition with a party which they say is racist and xenophobic.
BBC regional reporter Damien McGuinness says the Sweden Democrats appear to have tapped into voter dissatisfaction over immigration.
Immigrants make up 14% of the country’s population of 9.4 million.
The largest immigrant group is from neighbouring Finland, followed by people from Iraq, the former Yugoslavia and Poland.
The centre-left Social Democrats have ruled Sweden for 65 of the past 78 years, and are credited with setting up the country’s generous welfare state.
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