Swedish Parliament Speaker Asks Opposition Leader to Explore Government Formation
Andersson says she is ready to build a broad coalition as the Social Democrats and allies hold a slim three-seat majority in parliament.
- Speaker Andreas Norlen began meeting Swedish party leaders today to start appointing a new prime minister, following Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's resignation on Thursday after his four-party bloc suffered a narrow election defeat.
- Following Sunday's centre-left election victory, Norlen asked Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson to form a new government. "She has told me that she is ready to take on this task," he told a press conference.
- Party leaders are meeting the Speaker in order of party size today, starting with Andersson at 10 a.m. and concluding with the Liberals' Simona Mohamsson at 2 p.m. Norlen will hold a press conference around 3:30 p.m. to share his impressions.
- Andersson faces an uphill task uniting opposition parties, some of which refuse to govern together; she aims to build a broad coalition while excluding cooperation with the far-right Sweden Democrats.
- Forming a government may take time; after the 2018 election, Social Democrat leader Stefan Lofven took a record 134 days to win parliamentary backing. If four candidates are rejected, the outgoing government remains in interim capacity for three months.
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(Brussels=Yonhap News) Correspondent Hyun Yun-kyung = Former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, who led the left-wing bloc to a hard-fought victory in the Swedish general election after a fierce battle, has been granted the right to form a government...
The speaker of the Swedish parliament announced on Friday that, following post-election talks with party leaders, he has tasked opposition leader Magdalena Andersson, a Social Democrat, with forming a government.
"I undertake this mission with great humility and will work constructively towards the formation of a new government," the 59-year-old politician said in a post on Instagram.
The president of the Swedish parliament, Andreas Norlén, instructed on Friday the leader of the Social Democrats, Magdalena Andersson, to form a new government, the day after the short victory of his camp in the general elections. Negotiations opened within a very fragmented left bloc, between centrists and radical left.
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