Letter to the editor. The elections in Brazil and Serbia should inspire Sweden

The veteran incumbent, the Labor Party's Lula da Silva, won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election in Brazil, after which his right-wing nationalist opponent Flávio Bolsonaro immediately spoke of electoral fraud.

US President Donald Trump was not slow to join the chorus of cheaters, as he did when he himself lost to Joe Biden in 2020. And the US President dithered by saying that Flávio Bolsonaro had been exposed to a communist conspiracy.

At the same time, another light in the political darkness was lit in Europe, in Serbia, where the long-time leader of the nationalist party SNS, Aleksandar Vučić, who has led the country since 2012, conceded defeat in Sunday's special parliamentary elections in Serbia.

- I don't think you can underestimate how big this is, said Fanny Wallberg at the Center for Eastern European Studies to Expressen.

The sensational winner, the Student List, started as a grassroots student movement against corruption in the wake of a roof collapse in Novi Sad in 2024 that killed 16 people. Turnout was the highest since 1993. The ruling party conceded defeat in Serbia.

These two important events should be guiding in our own country. We are in a situation where the voters, barely but clearly, showed which way they wanted Sweden to go in today's dangerous world.

In many parts of our country, the election results were also followed by the same political combinations, not least in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, where the Social Democrats, the Green Party, the Left and the Center are now working for the best interests of their areas.

Shouldn't our leading politicians in the winning team be able to follow the will of the people like the one that arose in Brazil and Serbia?