A few hours after being elected prime minister, Magdalena Andersson had to resign, as a result of the implosion of his government coalition.
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It must have been a historic day in Sweden. And she was. At 10:30, Wednesday, November 24, the Social Leader-Democrat Magdalena Andersson, Minister of Finance since 2014, became the first woman to be elected as Prime Minister. Seven hours later, at 5:30 pm, it announced its withdrawal, after the decision of the Greens of leaving the government coalition, following the adoption by the members of the bill of finance presented by the opposition.
His mandate will remain in the annals as the shortest in the history of the country, even if Magdalena Andersson, aged 54, did not have time to form his duties. Stefan Löfven, in position since 2014, remains the prime minister in office, the time a new vote is organized in Parliament in the coming days. M me Andersson said she was ready to lead a minority government composed of the single social democratic party.
For several days, the prospect of what local media had baptized the “Super Wednesday” raised the observers of Swedish political life. It must be said that the agenda was particularly charged, with the election of the new Government Chief and the Budget Voting, less than one year of the next legislative legislation in September 2022, in a lighter political landscape, more unpredictable than ever. .
Defection of the centrists on the budget
In Sweden, a candidate for the post of prime minister is elected if the majority of members do not oppose it. Wednesday, 174 out of 349 voted against her, half less a voice. Only social democratic and green deputies, as well as an independent parliamentarian, supported the green button. The centrists and the left party voted yellow – the equivalent of the white vote.
But it took three weeks at Magdalena Andersson to convince the two training courses not to press the red button. On November 10, an agreement had been found with the Centrist Party, which required the facilities of the Literature Protection Act and the Forest Preservation Policy. Negotiations with the left party continued until Tuesday night and resulted in the promise to increase pensions of the poorest pensioners.
But theater Wednesday morning: just before the election of Magdalena Andersson, the leaders’ leader, Annie Lööv, announced that his party would not vote, a few hours later, the bill of finance presented by the government, judged too “left”. At the end of the afternoon, it is therefore the proposal prepared by the Conservatives, the Christians Democrats and the extreme right, which was adopted by the members.
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