SWEDEN’S Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson handed in her resignation as prime minister yesterday after a right-wing bloc won a narrow majority in parliament.

Ms Andersson met with Riksdag speaker Andreas Norlen to formally give up her role but will continue in a caretaker capacity under a new government is formed.

On Wednesday, once 99.9 per cent of votes had been counted, Sweden Democrats (SD) leader Jimmie Akesson declared victory for the four-party right-wing bloc which includes a nationalist, anti-immigration party.

While the SD won the most votes, it is not considered likely to lead the next government alone.

The party was founded in the 1980s by neonazis and far-right extremists, and while it has said it has “moved to the mainstream” in recent years, public and parliamentary concerns remain on their views.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has warned of potential physical and political attacks after the SD blocked access of journalists to their election night, including from BBC World and left-leaning publications.

SD chief of staff Linus Bylund also threatened to play journalist rugby, meaning to push them around, once in power.

In an interview in September, Mr Bylund threatened that “now we will do the opposite [of dancing to journalists’ tune] and we will decide when we want to speak to the media about different things.”

RSF Sweden president Erik Halkjaer said: “It is extremely worrying that a representative of the SD publicly encourages to ‘push around’ journalists whose work is to hold politicians accountable and report in the public interest.

“Politicians should create favourable conditions for journalism, not undermine them.”