Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist will be the last to give her statement on Thursday morning.
Magdalena Andersson is our most likely candidate for prime minister, but there needs to be a consensus on which policies should be implemented, she said in an interview on TV4 Nyhetsmorgon.
The Left Party and the Green Party have already announced that they will vote against Andersson and the purely Social Democratic government that the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament) will vote on today.
We will do that, and more parties will certainly do the same. There is no drama in that, deputy party leader Ida Gabrielsson (Left Party) told SVT.
The Green Party’s Janine Alm Ericson has said that the party will do the same.
The vote on the Social Democratic leader begins at noon. Andersson herself has said she expects to lose, as her attempts to form a government on the centre-left have so far failed.
To become prime minister, a candidate must not face opposition from a majority. If 175 or more members of parliament vote against the candidate, the proposal falls.
After the vote, the next step is for Speaker Andreas Norlén to hold talks with the party leaders again and then appoint a new party leader to explore forming a government.
The Speaker can put forward candidates for prime minister for a vote in the Riksdag four times. If no prime minister has been approved after four votes, a snap election must be held. Since few parties want a snap election, pressure on the parties to reach an agreement increases with each vote.
