Minister for Gender Equality Nina Larsson (L) has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The tumour was discovered the week after the election, she tells Femina magazine.
Swedish politicsThe Liberals will not join the Centre Party’s proposed centre-right government. They intend to vote against Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson as prime minister three more times.
Swedish politicsThe Centre Party leader has now begun exploring the possibility of forming a centrist government. It is unlikely, but not entirely out of the question, says political science professor Jonas Hinnfors.
Swedish politicsSpeaker Andreas Norlén has tasked Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist with exploring the prospects for a centrist government that can win the Riksdag’s support. “My ambition is to help find a solution to the government issue, not to become prime minister myself,” she says.
Swedish politicsSocial Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson has been voted down in the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament). “It’s not surprising, since it requires hard work and solid preparations. But it’s still strikingly weak,” Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson said in a comment.
Swedish politicsThe Left Party’s Nooshi Dadgostar regrets that government negotiations have not progressed further. “What is needed now is clear leadership that recognises the parliamentary reality,” she says.
Swedish politicsAlmost three weeks after the election, there is not even a rough sketch for a government. The parties seem as locked behind their red lines as on election night. And the Speaker needs to think a little more about who should be given the task of trying to form a government.
Swedish politicsS-leader Magdalena Andersson has given up her attempts to form a government, and the task is now expected to go to M-leader Ulf Kristersson. In that case, he wants to try to bring five parties together around a common economic policy, he told TT on Sunday. It is not certain that the Sweden Democrats would then have a place in the government.
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