Sweden’s first female prime minister gets poisoned chalice

Magdalena Andersson is congratulated after being appointed as Sweden's new prime minister at the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen in Stockholm on November 24 2021. Picture: TT NEWS AGENCY via REUTERS/ERIK SIMANDER

A last-minute deal with the former communist Left Party ensured that a majority of legislators accepted the Social Democrat leader, 100 years after women in the country known for its egalitarian foundations were first able to exercise full voting rights. Andersson faces a fragmented legislature after the Nordic nation’s politics have been upended by the emergence of the far-right Sweden Democrats as surging gun crime and tension over immigration led to voter disillusionment. Her government controls only about a third of the seats, and later on Wednesday, her spending proposal for 2022 is set to be dismissed in favour of an opposition bill.

While Lofven was able to form a government after an inconclusive 2018 election by co-operating with traditional opponents, a similar solution looks distant for Andersson, as centre-right parties have retreated from their support at the same time as the Left has taken a more assertive stance.

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