Sweden’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Stefan Leven is expected to resign within a few days.

A spokeswoman for Leven told the German news agency Deutsche Welle that the Prime Minister intended to inform Parliament Speaker Andreas Norlen earlier this week, but when exactly was still open.

The move was expected. Mr Leven had announced in August that he intended to resign first as party leader and then as head of government.

With this initiative, he wants to give his successor the opportunity to prepare more easily for the next parliamentary elections which will be held in the Scandinavian country at the end of the summer of 2022.

Finance Minister Eva Magdalena Anderson was elected the party’s new leader on Thursday. The Social Democrats’ new leader will also succeed Stefan Leven as Prime Minister.

But given the marginal majority of her party in Sweden’s Riksdag, she will have to persuade other parties not to oppose her, in order to give her a vote of confidence.

The Social Democrats have ruled Sweden for years, in collaboration with the Greens, with whom they formed a minority government. Leven has been Prime Minister since October 2015. Anderson will be the first woman to take over as Prime Minister, even though Sweden is still one of the most advanced countries when it comes to gender equality. of the sexes.

Source: RES