The formation of a Swedish coalition has been difficult for a month... Left Coalition: “Negotiations failed again”

Negotiations to form a coalition government between the center-left faction that won the Swedish general election last month are experiencing difficulties.

According to AFP, Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson held a press conference on the 13th (local time) and announced that she had failed to form a coalition with the Left Party, Center Party, and Green Party, which are part of the left-wing coalition.

On the 13th of last month, the left-wing coalition won over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's ruling right-wing coalition and took the lead in coalition negotiations. However, on the 28th of last month, Andersson declared the negotiations a failure, saying, “We have concluded that there is no possibility of forming a government led by the Social Democratic Party.”

Representative Andersson announced that he decided to relinquish the authority to nominate the prime minister that was granted to him at the time. A second round of negotiations took place after Parliament Speaker Andreas Norlen asked Andersson to try again to form a government.

Representative Andersson, who served as Sweden's first female prime minister from November 2021 to October of the following year, is on the verge of returning to the prime ministership after four years as the left-wing coalition led by her defeated the right-wing coalition by three seats in this general election.

However, there are many differences of opinion, such as the liberal-oriented centrist party opposing the formation of a cabinet that includes left-wing party members, making it difficult to reach an agreement on forming a coalition government. If the left-wing coalition fails, the power to form a government could pass to Prime Minister Kristersson.

Chairman Norlen, who received a report on the results of the negotiations from Representative Andersson that day, said that regardless of the results of the exploratory negotiations, they had agreed to form a government by voting on the appointment of a prime minister, and that the parliamentary vote on the 15th would proceed as scheduled.

In Sweden, if a majority of the members of parliament do not oppose a candidate, they can elect a prime minister and form a government. The Speaker of the National Assembly can propose candidates up to four times, and if all are rejected, a general election must be held again.