{"id":235835,"date":"2026-09-08T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/sweden-heads-to-polls-in-close-election-race-dominated-by-welfare-state-and-security\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:49:01","slug":"sweden-heads-to-polls-in-close-election-race-dominated-by-welfare-state-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/sweden-heads-to-polls-in-close-election-race-dominated-by-welfare-state-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden heads to polls in close election race dominated by welfare state and security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion polls ahead of Sunday&#8217;s vote point to a victory for the centre-left opposition headed by the Social Democrats which could see Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson&#8217;s centre-right coalition ousted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/08\/sweden-heads-to-polls-in-close-election-race-dominated-by-welfare-state-and-security\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion polls ahead of Sunday&#8217;s vote point to a victory for the centre-left opposition headed by the Social Democrats which could see Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson&#8217;s centre-right coalition ousted. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":235836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}