Sweden’s Moderate party leader gets the nod to try to form a new government
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OSLO, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Sweden’s moderate party leader, Ulf Kristersson, has been given a mandate to try to form the country’s next government after a recent parliamentary election gave the right-wing bloc a majority, parliament’s speaker said on Monday. .
– It was a fairly simple decision, said chairman Anders Norlen, adding that he had not set a deadline for how long the deliberations could last.
The Moderates, the Sweden Democrats, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals received 176 seats in the Riksdag with 349 seats, just ahead of the centre-left’s 173 seats, according to the electoral authority. Read more
Kristersson is widely expected to try to form a minority government, leaving out one or two right-wing parties while relying on their support in parliament. Read more
The election marks a watershed in Swedish politics with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, a party with roots in the white supremacist fringe, on the threshold of gaining influence over government policy. Read more
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Reporting by Terje Solsvik, editing by Stine Jacobsen
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