'No Possibility' for Swedish Leader to Form Government After Narrow Win
The Left Party’s support for Andreas Norlén gave him a majority and ended Andersson’s coalition talks, leaving the speaker to choose the next government bid.
- On Monday, Swedish Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson announced she cannot form a government, ending her mission after the Left Party shifted its support to the Moderate Party.
- Andersson's decision followed the Left Party's weekend announcement to back Moderate Party candidate Andreas Norlén for parliament speaker, effectively blocking her coalition path.
- While the centre-left bloc won 176 seats to 173 for the incumbent right bloc, the Left Party's support secured a majority for Norlén in parliament.
- Parliament will elect a new speaker today, who will then decide which political leader, potentially Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, receives the task of securing backing for a government.
- This shift creates a new parliamentary constellation of Left Party MPs and Moderates, complicating the path for the Social Democrats and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to govern.
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Despite the victory of his camp a few days ago, Magdalena Andersson, announced this Monday that he failed to form a government.
Magdalena Andersson (S) gives up on trying to form a government and partly blames the Left Party. Not unexpected, according to SD's Jimmie Åkesson. Strange, thinks Dadgostar (V). A playhouse, says Romina Pourmokhtari (L).
Copenhagen, Sep 28 (EFE).- The Swedish Social Democratic leader, Magdalena Andersson, resigned this Monday to try to form a government, ten days after having received the commission, due to the decision of his socialist allies to support the conservative candidate to be elected president of Parliament. The center-left opposition bloc led by Andersson won the legislative elections last September 13 by a narrow margin, with 176 seats against 173. …
Magdalena Andersson (S) gives up the attempt to form a government. She says that the Left Party's announcement to support the M-Speaker Andreas Norlén was the deciding factor. – I can state that at the moment there is no possibility for me to form a government.
Swedish Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson said on Monday that she had failed to form a government with the other three left-wing parties following the country's September 13 general election.
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