Sweden Centre-Left Leader Fails to Form Government
Speaker Andreas Norlen will still hold a prime ministerial vote after Magdalena Andersson failed to win backing from all four parties in her bloc.
- On Tuesday, Social Democratic party leader Magdalena Andersson announced she failed to form a government after gauging support following the September 13 election.
- Deep ideological differences between the Centre Party and Left Party caused the impasse, as the Centre Party refused a government including Left Party cabinet posts.
- Parliament speaker Andreas Norlen scheduled a vote for Thursday, stating agreement that the process "would conclude with a prime ministerial vote regardless of how the exploratory talks had gone."
- Addressing the press, Andersson acknowledged, "My overall assessment is that progress has been made, but at the same time, the conditions are currently not in place to form a government that can be tolerated by the parliament."
- After the upcoming vote, Norlen is expected to task caretaker Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson with forming a government, though the speaker said he would "respect the process.
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Sweden centre-left leader fails to form government
"My overall assessment is that progress has been made, but at the same time, the conditions are currently not in place to form a government that can be tolerated by the parliament," Andersson told a press conference. She spoke after reporting back to parliament speaker Andreas Norlen, who had tasked her with gauging conditions to form a government after the September 13 elections. Shortly after Andersson's announcement, Norlen told a separate pr…
The leader of the Social Democrats, who won the September 13 elections by a small margin, failed, at the second attempt, to create an alliance between the centrists and the left-wing party.
Center-left bloc won narrowary majority in September election but remains divided over Cabinet membership
Sweden's centre-left leader Andersson fails to form government
Sweden's centre-left opposition bloc won 176 seats in parliament, versus 173 for outgoing Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's right-wing bloc, which includes the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, in the 13 September election.
Social Democrats leader Magdalena Andersson met with Speaker Andreas Norlén shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday about government investigations, reports TT.
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