The electoral authority: We are ready for by-elections

44 days have passed since the election and one in four prime ministerial votes have been conducted and failed. If all four votes fail, by-elections await.

Then the Electoral Authority is ready.

- We are experts in elections and are tasked with being ready to carry out a special election at any time, says the Swedish Election Authority's head of office Anna Nyqvist in SVT Morgonstudion.

To be held within three months

The difference between a possible by-election in this case and the election in September is that you can only vote in one election – the parliamentary election.

A by-election must be held within three months of the Speaker's decision.

- There is a very short time to carry out an election according to the Swedish process, we have to do exactly the same things but in a very short time, says Anna Nyqvist.

The electoral authority is also ready for a possible re-election in the municipal election.

- If something has gone wrong in the regular election, it can be redone and there are still such cases that the electoral review board examines. So there could be re-elections in some municipalities.

The political reporter: "The red-greens have more to lose"

If a by-election is called, there will be winners and losers, says SVT's political reporter Julia Lindvall.

- You can think like this, who has something to lose from a by-election and who has more to gain? Then I would say that the red-greens have more to lose because they have the majority right now in the chamber, says Lindvall in Morgonstudion.

The ball is in the speaker's court

Magdalena Andersson (S) was the first to receive the probe assignment. She returned it before getting it back, only to be voted down by the Riksdag.

Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist (C) then received the probe assignment but announced on Monday that there is no majority for a central government.

Now they are waiting for the speaker's announcement, whether to go to a prime ministerial vote, whether to redistribute the probe assignment or whether to give Thand Ringqvist more time.