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Significantly, it was historic President Trump critic and former Swedish PM Mr Carl Bildt who announced the news on Twitter, stating: “First time ever in Sweden the Parliament dismisses a sitting government. PM Löfven dismissed, but remains in caretaker functions until a new government is formed.”
Mr Bildt rose to fame last year when he criticized the US President for predicting that Sweden would have problems with its immigration population after having admitted so many since 2015. In the last election, the anti-immigrant party Sweden Democrats took nearly 20% of the vote.
Yes, Sweden, one of the EU’s ultimate socialist paradises has seen its leftwing government Prime Minister just voted out of office for the first time ever after he lost the general election just two weeks ago.
It will now be up to the leader of the Sweden Moderates, Mr Ulf Kristersson, to form a government.
He has two choices, either try to form a government with the leftwing bloc with all political parties except for the Sweden Democrats in a grand coalition (however it then would become quite certain that the next election they would get even more votes if you do not execute their policy proposals), or, as happened in Austria, form a government of conservatives with the rightwing nationalist party.
The move means Löfven, whose centre-left bloc won 144 seats in parliament on 9 September to the centre-right’s 143, will have to step down eventually but will stay on in a caretaker capacity until a new administration can be formed, which could take weeks.
The speaker of the parliament, Andreas Norlén, is expected to meet the leaders of the eight parties represented in Sweden’s Riksdag over the next few days to determine who is best placed to try to piece together the country’s next government.
Most analysts expect Norlén to first approach Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the Moderate party, the largest member of the four-party centre-right Alliance.
“Sweden needs a new government that has broad political support to undertake reforms,” Kristersson said moments before Tuesday’s vote, which passed by a majority of 59 in the 349-seat house.
Quite where Kristersson might get that support from, however, is far from clear. With his centre-right grouping of the Moderate, Centre, Liberal and Christian Democrat parties in a minority, he will need the support of either the centre-left or of the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, whose 62 MPs backed the no-confidence motion.
