STOCKHOLM—The leader of Sweden’s Moderates, Ulf Kristersson, said on Friday he aimed to form a three-party minority government with support from the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats after the right-wing bloc won a majority in last month’s election.
The new government plans to cut taxes, begin the process for building new nuclear power plants, cap benefits, tighten immigration rules and give police more powers as part of a policy deal with the Sweden Democrats.
“Change is not only necessary, change is also possible, and we four parties together can offer that change,” Kristersson, 58, told reporters .
Now Sweden’s largest right-wing party, the nationalistic Sweden Democrats’ ability to shape policy marks a huge shift in politics and would have been unthinkable less then a decade ago….