{"id":153392,"date":"2021-11-26T09:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T01:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=153392"},"modified":"2021-11-26T09:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T01:56:31","slug":"swedish-parliament-to-vote-on-andersson-again-as-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=153392","title":{"rendered":"Swedish parliament to vote on Andersson again as PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2021\/11\/25\/image-30095-1637849362.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0 \u00a0STOCKHOLM, Nov 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Swedish lawmakers will on Monday decide whether Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson should be prime minister, the second vote in less than a week, the speaker of parliament said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliament on Wednesday elected Andersson as the country\u2019s first woman prime minister, but she resigned just hours later \u2014 before she even had a chance to formally take office \u2014 after the Green Party quit the coalition government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Andersson, 54, is expected to form a minority government made up solely of the Social Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker of parliament Andreas Norlen said he \u201cdeeply regretted\u201d Wednesday\u2019s turn of events, which the media described as a \u201cnightmarish day\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis kind of behaviour risks hurting the people\u2019s trust in parliament and politics,\u201d Norlen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unprecedented situation arose when Andersson secured a last-minute deal with the Left Party to raise pensions in exchange for its crucial backing to get her elected as prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that agreement did not sit well with the small Centre Party, which withdrew its support for Andersson\u2019s budget due to the concessions made to the Left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That left Andersson\u2019s budget with insufficient votes to pass in parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawmakers instead adopted an alternative budget presented by the opposition conservative Moderates, Christian Democrats and far-right Sweden Democrats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andersson grudgingly said she would still be able to govern with that budget, but the Green Party said it could not tolerate that and quit the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That meant Andersson had to resign, as the basis on which she was elected no longer existed. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0STOCKHOLM, Nov 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Swedish lawmakers will on Monday decide whether Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson should be prime minister, the second vote in less than a week, the speaker of parliament said. Parliament on Wednesday elected Andersson as the country\u2019s first woman prime minister, but she resigned just hours later \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":153394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153392"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}