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(Bloomberg) -- Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson conceded defeat and announced she will resign as surge in support for a nationalist party helped the right-wing opposition win one of the ...
Andersson then assumed the office of Prime Minister on 30 November 2021 as Sweden's first female prime minister. [4] After her coalition lost its majority in the 2022 Swedish general election, Andersson announced her intention to resign as prime minister. [5] She was succeeded by Ulf Kristersson on 18 October the same year. [6] [7] [8]
During the counting of the preliminary results and later on, Sweden's Election Authority said that the right overtook the left (S, V, C, MP) by three seats. Andersson conceded the election three days later, and resigned the day after that. The election saw massive swings between the two blocs in different regions.
Louis De Geer, the architect of the bicameral Riksdag of 1866, which replaced the centuries-old Riksdag of the Estates, became Sweden's first prime minister in 1876. As of 2022, the prime minister of Sweden is Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party. The list below contains statistics about the tenures of each of the prime ministers of ...
On 4 September 2024, less than a week prior to the Opening of the Riksdag when prime minister Ulf Kristersson was set to report to the Riksdag which ministers would be part of his cabinet for the upcoming parliamentary year, Tobias Billström, Minister for Foreign Affairs, made a surprise announcement stating he would resign as Foreign Minister ...
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has better ties with Russia than other EU states and most NATO members, says his government backs Sweden joining the alliance but the relevant bill has been ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Monday demanded the immediate release of Swedish European Union employee Johan Floderus from prison in Iran. Floderus was arrested in ...
Prime Minister Stefan Löfven is re-elected in the Riksdag on 7 July 2021. A government crisis began on 21 June 2021 in Sweden after the Riksdag ousted Prime Minister Stefan Löfven with a no-confidence vote. [1] [2] This was the first time in Swedish history a Prime Minister was ousted by a no-confidence vote.