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New Swedish PM presents 3-party center-right government

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By KARL RITTER
Associated Press

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Incoming Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has vowed to set the country on a new course on immigration, criminal justice and energy policy as he presented a center-right coalition government led by his conservative Moderate Party. Thirteen new ministers are Moderates, six are Christian Democrats and five Liberals. The three center-right parties secured a majority in Parliament after the Sept. 11 election with the help of the Sweden Democrats, a far-right party that has entered the political mainstream after years of being treated as a pariah by the other parties. The new government represents a sharp shift to the right for Sweden where the center-left Social Democrats had been in power for 8 years.

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