While the last votes are still being counted in Sweden, the incumbent Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, admits that her party has been defeated. She plans to hand in her resignation on Thursday.
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson is defeated in the September 2022 elections.
(dpa) Three days after the hard-fought parliamentary elections in Sweden, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has admitted defeat. The conservative-right camp received a narrow majority, so she will submit her resignation as prime minister on Thursday, the social democrat said on Wednesday evening in Stockholm.
A handful of votes have yet to be tallied, but Andersson, who became Sweden’s first woman prime minister last year, said the results showed the right-wing bloc won.
Narrow lead
Shortly before the end of the count of votes in the extremely close parliamentary elections in Sweden, the conservative-right camp was able to extend its minimal lead. A mandate migrated on Wednesday evening from Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats to her challenger Kristersson’s moderates, figures on the Swedish elections authority’s website show. At that point, more than 99 percent of all 6,578 constituencies had been provisionally counted.
The lead of Kristersson’s four-party bloc, including the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats, over Andersson’s four-party camp thus grew to 176 to 173 seats, having previously been 175 to 174. 175 of the 349 seats in the Reichstag in Stockholm are necessary for a majority. A provisional final result of Sunday’s Reichstag election was expected on Wednesday evening.