{"id":4374,"date":"2026-09-17T13:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2026-09-17T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T13:38:08","slug":"sweden-prime-minister-to-resign-as-left-wing-bloc-seals-narrow-election-win-elections-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=4374","title":{"rendered":"Sweden prime minister to resign as left-wing bloc seals narrow election win | Elections News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2060Sweden\u2019s \u2060centre-right Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he will resign after losing the parliamentary elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sweden\u2019s prime minister says he will resign after the left-wing opposition secured a narrow victory in the country\u2019s general election, though it faces tough negotiations ahead to form a coalition government.<\/p>\n

The vote count ended on Thursday with the Swedish Election Authority announcing that the four left-wing opposition parties won 176 seats in the 349-seat parliament in Stockholm, the Riksdag.<\/p>\n

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The four parties that make up or support the outgoing conservative-led government took 173 seats, meaning that the left-wing bloc won with a slim three-seat majority<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Only about 50,000 votes separated the two sides in the country of 10.6 million people.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the results were announced, \u2060Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he would resign.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, \u200cit is the speaker who will lead the next stage of the way to a new government. I am henceforth requesting that I be relieved of the office of prime minister to allow that \u2060work to start immediately,\u201d Kristersson \u2060said in a letter posted on social media X.<\/p>\n

Former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson\u2019s centre-left Social Democrats finished as the biggest single party<\/a>, despite losing some support.<\/p>\n

The result bolsters her hope of regaining the job she lost in 2022, but she will still face a complicated task to turn it into a government due to ideological divisions within the left-leaning bloc, which is made up of the Social Democrats, the Left Party, the Greens Party and the Centre Party.<\/p>\n

Andersson, who was Sweden\u2019s first female prime minister in 2021-2022 and was finance minister for seven years before that, will notably need to reconcile differences between the socialist Left Party and the liberal Centre Party.<\/p>\n

The Centre Party has said it will oppose a government that includes cabinet posts for the Left Party, which has insisted on having a minister. Andersson has meanwhile ruled out a government that includes the Left Party, but wants their support in Sweden\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who leads one of the few left-wing governments in Europe, hailed the result.<\/p>\n

\u201cSocial democracy has won the elections in Sweden. After four years of a right-wing government with the far right, the Swedes are once again backing the welfare state, social justice and the green agenda,\u201d Sanchez said in a post to X.<\/p>\n

Parliament can vote on a new prime minister on September 29 at the earliest.<\/p>\n

Kristersson said on election night that he would respect Andersson\u2019s attempts to form a government, but wished her \u201cgood luck\u201d given the divisions among her left-wing bloc.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in a big surprise, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, which entered parliament in 2010, lost support for the first time<\/a>, garnering 17.5 percent of the vote, down three percentage points from the last election in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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