
After the elections in Sweden, the political situation will become more complicated, and the Left Party has supported the center-right candidate for speaker of parliament.
After the elections in Sweden, the opposition bloc won a majority, but the Left Party's decision to support the center-right candidate for speaker of parliament and the investigation into vote buying complicate the formation of a new government.
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After the September 13 elections, Swedish parties began negotiations on forming a new government and electing the speaker of parliament.
Andersson: A new arrangement has been created
A new arrangement in parliament has been established, it is logical that since the parties have agreed on the election of the chairman, they should now try to take further actions regarding the government, Andersson said at a specially convened press conference.
After the elections on September 13, the bloc of opposition parties: the Workers' Party-Social Democrats, the Left Party, the Center Party and the Environmental Protection Party-Greens received a total of 176 seats, i.e. a small majority.
In turn, the center-right parties in power so far: the Moderate Coalition Party, the Christian Democrats, the Liberals and the far-right Sweden Democrats, won 173 seats.
Due to this distribution of votes, Andersson was tasked with forming a government on September 18. According to the leader of the Social Democrats, a natural step was to support the common candidate of the bloc of left-wing parties for the chairman of the parliament, which was to be a politician from the Workers' Party-Social Democracy.
Volta of the Left Party
On Sunday, the Left Party said it would support the candidate of the center-right Moderate Coalition Party and the current speaker of parliament, Andreas Norlen, praising his "calm and professionalism."
In Sweden, it is the Speaker of Parliament who leads the government election procedure, deciding who will be entrusted with the task of forming the cabinet. The prime minister's candidacy must then be approved by the house.
The votes of the Left Party, which demands its own ministers in the future government, are necessary for the Social Democrats to have a majority in parliament, but a coalition with the Left Party is opposed by the Center Party, without which the leftist parties cannot govern either.
Election scandal in Sweden
The negotiations were further complicated by the investigation initiated by the prosecutor's office regarding the suspicion of giving voters rides, giving them already marked ballots and paying them for votes for the candidate of the Left Party, 30-year-old Mohamed Abdukardir Ali.
This politician from Somalia with no significant experience unexpectedly entered parliament from ninth place on the list in the Dalarna region, located approximately 215 km northwest of Stockholm. Due to the case, Ali temporarily resigned from office.
On Monday, the Swedish Parliament meets for the first time after the elections to elect a speaker. Then, the head of the chamber will be tasked with selecting the next politician who has the best chance of forming a government. This means that Sweden will have to wait longer for a new government than the results of the September 13 elections, and Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the Moderate Coalition Party, remains the acting prime minister.
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Parliament will elect the Speaker of the House.
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