The decision came after the resignation of the government’s environmental allies. “A constitutional practice” calls for the resignation of the government if a party leaves it, explained Magdalena Andersson.
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Less than eight hours after her election by Parliament, the new Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson was forced to resign on Wednesday, November 24, after a nightmare day marked by the defeat of her budget and the departure of her environmental allies from the government.
“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.”, said the Social Democratic leader 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. Elected for a few hours the first woman to this post after several days of already delicate negotiations, she was the victim of a painful game of political domino.
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 small pensions. 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, prepared for the first time with the far-right Democrats. from Sweden (SD).