STOCKHOLM, Sept 17, SPA-- A centre-right alliance wason course to win Sweden's parliamentary election on Sunday,ending 12 years of Social Democrat rule with pledges to cuttaxes and trim the welfare state, television exit polls showed, according to Reuters. An exit poll by national public broadcaster SVT estimatedthe four-party alliance led by Moderate Party leader FredrikReinfeldt won 49.7 percent of votes, with 45.6 percent going toa bloc led by Prime Minister Goran Persson's Social Democrats. TV4 channel projections put the centre-right alliance on48.6 percent and Social Democrats' bloc on 46.7 percent. The centre-right alliance has vowed to trim but notradically change the welfare system by cutting taxes and costlybenefits after signs of voter fatigue with the Social Democrats,in power since 1994 and for six of the last seven decades.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/390239