Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist will face a vote for prime minister next week, according to the speaker. If she is voted down, the task of trying to form a government will go to Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson.
Swedish politicsSeveral of the incidents that have occurred in Swedish elections are rooted in the current ballot system, believes Anna Nyqvist, the Election Authority's chief of staff. “We have long advocated that parties should not handle ballots,” she tells SVT Nyheter.
Swedish politicsA man in his 40s, employed by the Stockholm police region, is being charged with several counts of child rape, reports SVT News.
CrimeA parliamentary mandate has gone back and forth between the Social Democrats, the Sweden Democrats, the Moderates and the Left Party during Wednesday's count in the constituencies.
Swedish politicsA woman has died in a traffic accident in Östermalm in Stockholm during the night of Saturday, writes DN.
SwedenHe sold an "infidelity sofa" - and the ad went viral on social media. But his ex-partner sued, and now the man is being charged with aggravated defamation, several media outlets report.
CrimeThe SD official who, according to the magazine Expo, spread pro-Russian information must be fired if the information is true, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) told Aftonbladet. SD leader Jimmie Åkesson says it is not something that "the party was aware of".
Swedish politicsThe Sweden Democrats will not get 12 ministerial posts in a Moderate-led government, M leader Ulf Kristersson told SVT Nyheter.
Swedish politicsAnother person is suspected in the investigation into preparation for murder in the Stockholm area. According to the newspaper Mitti, the person is under 15 years old.
CrimeS leader Magdalena Andersson promises that no one with "normal incomes" will have their taxes raised with her as prime minister. No one who earns less than 70,000 kronor a month will have their income tax raised, she tells SVT Nyheter.
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