As with a first vote last Wednesday, it also received the necessary support in a parliamentary vote on Monday. After her first election last week, she resigned on the same day in the wake of a budget dispute.
Andersson was the first woman ever to be elected Prime Minister of Sweden last Wednesday, but resigned on the same day. The start of the surprising move was that the Greens had announced in the late afternoon that they would leave the government with the Social Democrats.
The party decided to do this after parliament approved an alternative proposal from opposition parties instead of the red-green budget. The right-wing populist Sweden Democrats were also involved in this for the first time – a red rag for the Greens.
Andersson is now appointed head of a minority government consisting only of her own Social Democratic party. Your minority government, which holds 100 out of 349 seats in parliament, will have to govern with a budget drawn up by the opposition. For her own projects she will now have to get the support of the other parties on a case-by-case basis.
Andersson had won the support of the Left Party for their planned coalition government at the last minute last week – and promised a pension increase in return. However, because of the concessions to the left, the small Center Party withdrew its support for Andersson’s budget. This then failed in parliament.
Instead, the MPs voted for the budget of the opposition – consisting of the conservative moderates, the Christian Democrats and the right-wing party, the Sweden Democrats. The Greens then resigned from the government. Andersson had previously indicated that he wanted to govern with the opposition’s budget.
Source From: Nachrichten
