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    Swedish election: PM says voting for anti-immigration SD is 'dangerous'

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    's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has begun the final day of the general election campaign by warning about extremism and fascism.

    Neither his centre-left Social Democrats nor the main centre-right party is likely to win a majority.

    The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) is expected to win around 20% of the vote, becoming the second biggest party in parliament.

    Mr Lofven said an SD vote was “dangerous” and “counterproductive”.

    He said it was “like trying to quench fire with alcohol”, according to the Omni news site.

    Immigration has been a central issue of the election campaigns.

    The nationalist SD doubled its seats in the 2014 election and it is predicted to double them again on Sunday.

    On Friday, the SD said its leader, Jimmie Akesson, had received a letter threatening to behead him if he did not pull out of the election.

    It said the letter bore the flag of the Islamic State militant group.

    Sweden's security and intelligence service is investigating, news agency reported.

    Who are the Sweden Democrats?

    The SD was linked for years to neo-Nazis and other far-right groups, only entering parliament in 2010.

    It has been working to rebrand itself, changing its logo from a flaming torch (similar to the one used by the UK far-right National Front) to a blue-and-yellow daisy, the colours of the Swedish flag.

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