Who’ll yield first in Sweden’s political chicken race?

Opublikowano: 2026-10-02

Magdalena Andersson was acclaimed as the winner of Sweden’s election. Four parties – adding up to a majority – said they wanted her to be prime minister, and she was charged by the speaker with forming a government. Yet on Monday she threw in the towel. The immediate pretext was the decision by the Left Party to support the re-election of speaker Andreas Norlén, a Moderate, over the Social Democrats’ own candidate. But it followed two weeks in which Andersson had failed to get the Centre Party, Left Party and Greens to so much as take a cu...