The latest Novus survey shows that the Centre's voter support is currently only 5.0 percent.
It will be one of many challenges for whoever succeeds Annie Lööf, who has been in the post for over eleven years.
- The Center Party has an urgent need to sharpen its political profile.
They have low confidence in all substantive political issues, says SVT's domestic policy commentator Elisabeth Marmorstein in Morgonstudion.
The election committee's candidate Muharrem Demirok, who was elected to the Riksdag as recently as last year, has been questioned even before the appointment for various reasons.
Mainly it has been about the fact that in the 1990s he was convicted of two cases of assault and that he is also a Turkish citizen, which, according to critics, could be exploited by a foreign power.
Demirok has announced that he intends to renounce his Turkish citizenship.
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