After S leader Magdalena Andersson gave up her first attempt to form a red-green government, the Speaker of the Riksdag is calling for a new so-called speaker's round with the party leaders on Wednesday.
He will then give a new exploratory mission to one of them.
Norlén has no deadline for how quickly Sweden will get a new government.
My ambition is that we won't have 134 days this time, he says.
No signs
Norlén is referring to the formation of the government in 2018, when L and C ultimately had to leave the bourgeois Alliance to cooperate with an S-led government.
Norlén, who was also Speaker in 2018, believes that he gave the party leaders too much time for their exploratory missions.
The Speaker has four attempts to present a proposal for a prime ministerial candidate to the Riksdag. If the Riksdag says no each time, a special election must be called.
But Norlén believes that caution must be exercised when it comes to rushing the prime minister's vote to increase pressure on the parties to cooperate.
It is the most powerful weapon you have as Speaker.
So far, he can't see any signs that it will go faster this time than in 2018.
Locked position
The situation is deadlocked. In order for there to be a red-green government, either V must drop its demand to be part of such a government, or C and S must accept that V will receive ministerial posts.
In order for there to be an M-led government, the Center Party needs to change sides.
If Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson gets the next exploratory mission, great difficulties await him as well.
The C leader does not intend to be tempted, as long as SD is included in Kristersson's government base.
Center leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist closes the door to all governments in which the SD gains influence.
We cannot accept a government that includes SD or that collaborates with SD, says Thand Ringqvist.
At the same time, SD insists that they must be part of an M-led government.
"We will not accept any government that we ourselves are not part of," says SD leader Jimmie Åkesson.
When asked if Norlén sees a risk that the government issue cannot be resolved without a by-election, he replies:
The risk is there, of course. But we haven't held a single vote on the prime minister yet and I have four attempts.
