The resigned Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has good prospects of continuing to govern.

On Monday, Parliament's President Andreas Norlén proposed him again for the post of Prime Minister.

At a joint press conference in Stockholm, Norlén said that Löfven had told him that he had found a solution to form a government that would be tolerated by parliament.

Matthias Wyssuwa

Political correspondent for Northern Germany and Scandinavia based in Hamburg.

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    The Reichstag is due to vote on Löfven on Wednesday.

    Even if parliament accepts the Social Democrats as prime minister, the government crisis in Sweden does not seem to have been resolved.

    Because there is still no telling how Löfven will get his draft budget through Parliament in the autumn.

    Dispute over liberalization in rent policy

    The government crisis triggered a dispute with the Left Party in mid-June over a planned liberalization of rent policy.

    The Left Party lost its trust in the red-green minority government of Löfven and, together with the opposition consisting of two bourgeois parties and right-wing populists, voted for a motion of no confidence against Löfven.

    He is the first prime minister in the history of the kingdom to be distrusted by parliament.

    Löfven then decided to resign so that Parliament's President Norlén could explore new alliances.

    After Ulf Kristersson had to quickly give up his attempt by the bourgeois moderates, Norlén Löfven had given the order to find a new alliance.

    From the beginning, this was a legislative period like no other in Sweden, said Norlén.

    So far, Löfven with his red-green minority government has been dependent on the support of two bourgeois parties, the Liberals and the Center Party.

    In addition, the Left Party had tolerated him and will continue to do so as long as rent policy is not liberalized.

    The new government should also include the Greens again, and the Center Party has announced that it will tolerate Löfven.

    She has again resisted calls from the bourgeois camp to elect Kristersson as prime minister - they do not want a bourgeois government that depends on the votes of the Sweden Democrats.

    The Liberals do not want to tolerate Löfven any longer.

    That would mean 175 of the 349 MPs to Löfven.

    However, before his nomination, the parties had already made demands that would be difficult to bring together.

    The Center Party had negotiated three points with Löfven that had to be dealt with.

    However, this did not please the Greens.

    The Center Party also announced that it would submit its own budget.