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Swedish PM Lofven voted out by parliament, new government unclear

 

Prime Minister and Social Democratic Party leader Stefan Lofven attends a news conference at the government headquarters Rosenbad in Stockholm, Sweden September 12, 2018. TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery/via REUTERS/File Photo

 

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven lost a mandatory confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday meaning he will step down, but with neither major political bloc holding a majority it remained unclear who will form the next government.

 

Voters delivered a hung parliament in the Sept. 9 election with Lofven's centre-left bloc garnering 144 seats, one more than the centre-right opposition Alliance.

 

The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, with 62 seats, also backed the vote to remove Lofven.

 

Analysts expect the speaker to pick Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party - the biggest Alliance party - to try to form a new government.

 

But with the Alliance in a minority, he needs support either from the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, shunned by all sides since the party entered parliament in 2010, or the centre left.

 

Stefan Lofven's Social Democrats have ruled out backing an Alliance government.

 

Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Akesson repeated on Tuesday his party would bring down any government that does not give it a say on immigration, healthcare, pensions and crime policy.

 

"If Ulf Kristersson wants to be prime minister it can only happen with my help," Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Akesson told Swedish television on Tuesday.

 

The Alliance of the Moderates, Centre, Liberal and Christian Democrats has said it will not negotiate with them.

 

The speaker has four goes at finding a new government and if the situation remains deadlocked, Sweden will hold another election within three months.

 

With a new vote unlikely to change the situation much, some kind of compromise is likely to be thrashed out.

 

A number of party combinations have been suggested, but all would have a heavy political cost and a deal is could take weeks.

 

Lofven will lead a transition government until a new administration is installed.

 

 

(Reporting by Stockholm Newsroom; Editing by Alison Williams)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-09-25

[sweatalot]

The Swedish experienced what -may be- well meant but badly processed immigration  did to them.  The wrong immigrants, hostile to their hosts not willing to integrate and far too much, coming for a good life without return service. I wonder why the Swedish did not make  clearer what common sense is. May be too much brainwash by the pc and their media?

Edited September 25, 2018 by sweatalot

[Parsve]

17 hours ago, sweatalot said:

The Swedish experienced what -may be- well meant but badly processed immigration  did to them.  The wrong immigrants, hostile to their hosts not willing to integrate and far too much, coming for a good life without return service. I wonder why the Swedish did not make  clearer what common sense is. May be too much brainwash by the pc and their media?

 

A somewhat stupefying explanation. It was not immigrants who closed schools in rural areas, it was not immigrants who closed down banks and grocery stores in smaller communities, it was not immigrants who worsened the possibility of healthcare. In fact, immigrants in many cases buy the groceries in rural areas despite poor returns and that Swedish healthcare would not even meet today's level of care without immigrant nurses and doctors. It is also a fact that Sweden, according to UN, in 2017 climbed on the list of well-healthy countries from number 14 to number 7, this despite of the immigration.

[trianglechoke]

On 9/26/2018 at 1:00 PM, Parsve said:

  

A somewhat stupefying explanation. It was not immigrants who closed schools in rural areas, it was not immigrants who closed down banks and grocery stores in smaller communities, it was not immigrants who worsened the possibility of healthcare. In fact, immigrants in many cases buy the groceries in rural areas despite poor returns and that Swedish healthcare would not even meet today's level of care without immigrant nurses and doctors. It is also a fact that Sweden, according to UN, in 2017 climbed on the list of well-healthy countries from number 14 to number 7, this despite of the immigration.

I don't think ANYONE is talking about employed tax paying migrant nurses bro. There is a massive number of muslims causing the usual trouble, how u miss hat is amazing.

[Guest]

Why not to be realistic, instead of going to opposite bunkers?

 

Sweden has a immigration problem due being occasionally too friendly and welcoming towards all kind of immigrants. That problem causes disturbances in some parts of Malmö, which have been widely reported. Nothing new. 

 

Most of the Sweden is quiet, or it would be, if there wouldn't be Swedes who like to talk so much.

 

The importance of this Swedish Democrats party is also exaggerated. They do have an agenda to get rid of immigrants, but at the end of the day it's mainly today's 'protest party', which is just normal in Nordic countries. 

 

I suppose, with the following Centrist-Right coalition, which will eventually take the power, Sweden is once again able to talk about the immigration issues openly. Once that happen, there will be more up to date and more realistic immigration policies been put to action.

 

If Sweden is smart, they'll give cabinet power, which comes with real responsibilities, to Swedish Democrats. We did that in Finland some years back. This didn't change our politics much, but made the loud voices from the sides of the road to disappear. At the end of the day, our 'Swedish Democrats' party ended up splitting up and it weakened furthermore. 

 

To survive in a political environment with real multiparty power, everybody knows, it's the consensus which can make real changes - Confucius 500BC* 

 

 

Edited October 3, 2018 by Guest