(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Three centre-left opposition parties are holding on to the top position in Sweden, according to a poll by Skop. 49.6 per cent of respondents would vote for the Workers' Party - Social-Democrats (S), the Left Party (Vp) or the Environmental Party - The Greens (MP) in the next legislative ballot.

The governing centre-right alliance of the Moderate Rally Party (M), the Centre Party (C), the People's Party Liberals (FpL), and the Christian-Democrats (KD) is second with 46.2 per cent.

Swedish voters renewed the Diet in September 2006. The centre-right alliance secured 178 seats, ending the ten-year tenure of Social-Democrat prime minister Goran Persson. Moderate leader Fredrik Reinfeldt became prime minister in October. In January 2007, former sustainable development minister Mona Sahlin took over as the new leader of the Social-Democrats.

Earlier this month, Sahlin presented her platform to win the next election, scheduled for September 2010. The Social-Democrat leader said she would concentrate on job creation, welfare and foreign policy, and referred to the battle against global warming as a topic that is "as important as the class struggle 100 years ago."

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