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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]
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 ...
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 ...
The prime minister of Sweden (Swedish: statsminister literally translates as "minister of state") is the head of government of the Kingdom of Sweden. The prime minister and their cabinet (the government) exercise executive authority in the Kingdom of Sweden and are subject to the Parliament of Sweden. The prime minister is nominated by the ...
The Swedish constitution of 1974 allows the prime minister of Sweden to appoint one of the ministers in the cabinet as deputy prime minister (ställföreträdande statsminister, also unofficially known as vice statsminister, "Vice Prime Minister"), in case the prime minister for some reason is prevented from performing his or her duties.
Ulf Kristersson, who stepped into his role as prime minister in 2022, extended a “warm welcome” to Swift on Thursday, May 16 as she prepared to kick off three consecutive nights in Sweden’s ...
[65] [66] Andersson was elected as the new Prime Minister of Sweden by the Riksdag on 24 November 2021 [67] and was set to take office on 26 November. [68] [69] Because of Andersson's resignation a few hours later, Löfven continued as prime minister of the caretaker government until Andersson took office on 30 November 2021. [70] [71]