
Magdalena Andersson is not expected to receive support in the Riksdag vote
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The Riksdag will vote on the post of prime minister on Thursday. There is a parliamentary situation where the distribution of mandates makes it difficult to form a non-socialist government.
On Thursday, the Riksdag will vote on whether S leader Magdalena Andersson is accepted as prime minister. Even she herself does not believe that she will get the Riksdag's support, and then it will be the speaker's task to produce a new probing person.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson may be the one to take over the baton, but he is doubtful as to how meaningful such an assignment will be.
- I hold ongoing talks with other parties, but ultimately it is the parliamentary reality, the mandates, that decide. As long as there are 176 mandates that point to a Social Democratic-led government, there are no parliamentary prerequisites for a non-socialist government. If that were to change, I am ready, says Ulf Kristersson.
He does not want to go into whether he wants a probe mission or not, but emphasizes that it is the speaker's task to determine whether the parliamentary conditions have changed since election day.
- This is about seriously testing a government that can be tolerated and elected by Sweden's Riksdag, and that must always start in the distribution of mandates. Throwing away polls that you know will fail is wasting the patience of the Swedish people, says Ulf Kristersson.
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Riksdag vote on Magdalena Andersson as Prime Minister.
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