Sweden’s parliament has elected a new prime minister, Magdalena Anderson, for the second time in less than seven days, leaving the country’s first female prime minister to navigate a fragmented political landscape.
The leader of the Social Democrats was elected by the deputies with 173 votes against, 101 votes in favor and 75 abstentions. In Sweden, a government is approved when an absolute majority of 175 MEPs do not vote against it.
The former finance minister had won a similar vote last week but conceded defeat a few hours later when a junior coalition partner left the government after the budget vote.
Anderson will now form a minority government consisting only of her own party.
The Social Democrats hold 100 seats in the 349-seat parliament and will depend on several other parties to implement policy. Since 1979, there has been no other government with so little support in Parliament.
Complicating the picture, Anderson will have to rule with a budget that has been shaped in part by three opposition parties, including the anti-immigrant Swedish Democrats, whose election profits have been at the heart of political turmoil in the United States for the past decade.
Its weak position is due to a stagnant Parliament where neither the center-left nor the center-right can form a majority on their own.
The elections, which are expected to take place next September, may not clear up the landscape as the polls do not show major changes in the overall political balance.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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Source From: Capital
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