Sweden: the new Prime Minister resigns the same day of her election
The new Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, will have been forced to resign after just 8 hours as head of the country (Illustrative image).
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Less than eight hours after her election by Parliament, Magdalena Andersson was forced to resign this Wednesday, November 24.
A nightmare day for the Social Democrat, marked by the rejection of her budget by Swedish deputies and the departure of her environmental allies from the government.
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The first woman to hold this post after several days of already delicate negotiations, she was the victim of a painful game of political domino. “
There is a constitutional practice whereby a coalition government resigns when a party leaves it. I do not want to lead a government whose legitimacy is in question,
”the Social Democrat declared at a press conference. On the evening of this abortive reign,
Magdalena Andersson
said she hoped to be re-elected to her post in a subsequent vote, with a 100% social democratic government.
On Tuesday evening, this 54-year-old economist, until now Minister of Finance to her predecessor
Stefan Löfven
, had secured
in extremis
the support necessary to come to power, thanks to a last-minute agreement with the Left Party to increase the small retreats.
Chain reaction
But another key party, the Center Party, unhappy with the concessions made to the left wing, withdrew its support for the budget, without blocking its rise to power.
As a result, the same parliament that had elected her in the morning put her budget in a minority in the afternoon and adopted that of the right-wing opposition, first prepared with the far-right Sweden Democrats. (SD).
Magdalena Andersson had said she could live with it.
But for his environmental ally, the only other party in the minority government coalition, it was unacceptable to govern with a finance law bearing the seal of the far right.
Shortly after the snub on the budget, the environmental party therefore announced its departure from the government, forcing the Social Democrat to return her apron barely acquired.
The President of the House, Andreas Norlén, has let it be known that he accepts his resignation and will now contact the party leaders before deciding on Thursday, November 25 how to proceed.
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