Speaker: The center leader receives the probe assignment

For 36 days after the election, Sweden has lacked a new government and now Speaker Andreas Norlén (M) announces that the C-leader will receive the third probe assignment from him.

- I have continued to talk to the party leaders and it has resulted in me asking Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist to probe the conditions for a government that can be tolerated by the Riksdag, says Speaker Andreas Norlén.

On Friday, he postponed the decision after talks with the respective party leaders and, according to plan, should have spent the weekend thinking about the matter. He urged them at the same time to talk to each other in the meantime.

The C leader now has until Monday when she must report back to the speaker.

- It is above all about her examining the conditions for the so-called middle alternative of the various alternatives to government formation that are being discussed, says Norlén.

The transitional government's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) calls the speaker's statement logical:

- The parties that have said that it is Magdalena Andersson who should form a government still have 176 mandates and a majority in the Riksdag. It is therefore reasonable that they are allowed to exhaust all the different options on the left for the formation of a government, says Kristersson.

In the past, Magdalena Andersson (S) has received the probe assignment twice, the first of which ended with her returning it, and the second ended with a vote on her as prime minister in a one-party government in a substantial minority.

The text is updated.