Scandal in Sweden
After the resignation is before the election: Magdalena Andersson is standing for another vote in parliament
Sweden’s first female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, resigned immediately after her election.
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No sooner had Magdalena Andersson been elected first female prime minister in the Stockholm Reichstag than she resigned. Now she is facing another vote.
Five days after her election as the first female prime minister of Sweden with subsequent Turbo resignation, Magdalena Andersson faces a new vote in parliament. In the vote in the noon on Monday (around 1 p.m.), the Social Democrat is again sufficient if no majority is against her. Your chances are good: the same parties with whose votes she was elected Prime Minister on Wednesday have again signaled the necessary support to the previous finance minister in advance.
Andersson was the first woman ever to be elected Prime Minister of the Scandinavian country on Wednesday morning. On the same day, however, she resigned. The trigger for the surprising move was that the Greens, as junior partner of the Social Democrats, had announced in the late afternoon that they would leave the government. The party decided to do this after parliament had not voted for the Red-Green budget, but for an alternative proposal from several opposition parties.
Andersson wants to run with a minority government
The right-wing populist Sweden Democrats were also involved in this alternative budget proposal for the first time – that was a red rag for the Greens. Their departure later received clear criticism from the President of the Parliament, Andreas Norlén, who is responsible for the search for a government. The turbulence could have been avoided if he had known in advance of the Greens’ reservations on the budget, Norlén said on Thursday when he nominated Andersson for a second parliamentary vote.
The 54-year-old Andersson no longer wants to run with the Greens, but with a purely social democratic minority government. Her predecessor and party friend Stefan Löfven had been the head of a red-green minority government for the past seven years. He had submitted his resignation as head of government on November 10, after he had previously passed the party chairmanship to his long-term finance minister. With this, he wants to ensure that Andersson can raise his profile in the months leading up to the next parliamentary election in September 2022.