{"id":1052023,"date":"2021-11-24T13:13:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1052023"},"modified":"2021-11-24T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:13:46","slug":"swedens-first-female-prime-minister-resigns-after-less-than-eight-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swedens-first-female-prime-minister-resigns-after-less-than-eight-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden&#039;s First Female Prime Minister Resigns After Less Than Eight Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fswedens-first-female-prime-minister-resigns-after-less-than-eight-hours%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1052023&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1235574702-e1637776364404-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sweden elected its first-ever female Prime Minister on Wednesday morning, but she resigned just seven and a half hours later after her coalition government lost a key budget vote.<\/p>\n<p>Magdalena Andersson, leader of the Social Democrats, was selected in a Riksdag (Parliament) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/24\/sweden-parliament-approves-first-ever-female-prime-minister-by-just-one-vote\/\">vote as Sweden\u2019s 34th Prime Minister on Wednesday morning<\/a>, replacing outgoing migrant-crisis era leader of the Social Democrat Stefan L\u00f6fven. Yet just hours later the Speaker of Riksdag announced the search for another new Prime Minister would begin after Andersson\u2019s government collapsed before she\u2019d even had chance to be sworn into the role.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Budget for the Andersson government was up before Parliament Wednesday afternoon but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/24\/just-hours-after-selecting-new-prime-minister-failed-budget-vote-plunges-swedish-government-into-chaos\/\">failed to pass<\/a>. The chamber instead elected to pass a so-called opposition budget written by right-wing minority parties, which had the government stayed it would have been forced to implement. The prospect of working to a budget that had been approved of by right-wing populists the Sweden Democrats was too much for coalition partners the Greens, however, who pulled out of the government in protest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.8378378378378\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just Hours After Selecting New Prime Minister, Failed Budget Vote Plunges Swedish Government Into Chaos <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8J3XoWDjZz\">https:\/\/t.co\/8J3XoWDjZz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1463554505467838464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The withdrawal means Sweden\u2019s Prime Minister is seen as no longer leading the government legitimately and therefore had to tender her resignation. Andersson said as much in her remarks Wednesday evening when she said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/inrikes\/talmansrundor\">per Sweden Television<\/a>: \u201cFor me, it is about respect, I do not want to lead a government where there may be grounds to question its legitimacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Swedish newspaper <em>Aftonbladet<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aftonbladet.se\/nyheter\/a\/k6BQdQ\/magdalena-andersson-lamnar-efter-miljopartiets-besked\">reported <\/a>further comments when the outgoing Prime Minister said: \u201cOf course, I fully understand that this appears to be messy. A party that this morning voted for a prime minister who formed a government with that party has now changed its mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were always stacked against PM&nbsp;Magdalena Andersson \u2014 she only avoided having her selection as Prime Minister on Wednesday Morning blocked by just one vote, and the budget vote coming later that day looked likely to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden\u2019s Centrist party, which had generally supported the left-wing Left-Green coalition in the past voted against the budget today, robbing it of the votes it needed to pass. This triggered the Green withdrawal from the failing government, and by the convention of the Swedish system, this means a new Prime Minister must be selected again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7215189873418\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sweden Parliament Approves First Ever Female Prime Minister by Just One Vote <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iEHVcfK9bG\">https:\/\/t.co\/iEHVcfK9bG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1463550175981547527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Greens for their part said the Centrist\u2019s refusal to back the government today left them&nbsp;\u201csurprised and outraged\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the Speaker of the Swedish Parliament Wednesday evening said \u201cThe Speaker will now contact the party leaders to discuss the situation and will provide information on how the process is to continue on Thursday afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it may be that Andersson will be re-selected as the next Prime Minister, and despite their withdrawal from the government today the Greens have said they would back Andersson to lead again when the next leadership vote comes. As SVT reports: \u201cIn a new prime ministerial vote, Magdalena Andersson thus looks to be re-elected to the post.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, as it stands, Sweden\u2019s long-time left-wing leader Stefan L\u00f6fven appears to remain as Prime Minister as a caretaker as the Andersson government collapsed before it was sworn in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden elected its first-ever female Prime Minister on Wednesday morning, but she resigned just seven and a half hours later after her coalition government lost a key budget vote. 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