{"id":27197,"date":"2022-09-15T02:57:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T02:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27197"},"modified":"2022-09-15T02:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T02:57:43","slug":"magdalena-andersson-swedish-pm-resigns-as-right-wing-parties-win-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=27197","title":{"rendered":"Magdalena Andersson: Swedish PM resigns as right-wing parties win vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sweden&#8217;s prime minister says she will stand down after her government was defeated in Sunday&#8217;s election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magdalena Andersson&#8217;s centre-left coalition looks set to narrowly lose to a bloc of right-wing parties, 176 seats to 173, with 99% of the votes counted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is now expected to form a government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bloc includes the Sweden Democrats, a far-right party that has campaigned against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-62823893\">rising gang shootings.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final result is still to be confirmed after a recount, which is standard practice in Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But despite this, Ms Andersson accepted defeat at a news conference on Wednesday, and said she would officially resign on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In parliament, they have a one or two seat advantage,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a thin majority, but it is a majority.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The close-fought election campaign was dominated by gangs, immigration and integration issues, as well as soaring electricity prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Andersson was the Nordic nation&#8217;s first female PM when she took office last year &#8211; she quit on the first day, before returning soon after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Sweden&#8217;s prime minister says she will stand down after her government was defeated in Sunday&#8217;s election. Magdalena Andersson&#8217;s centre-left coalition looks set to narrowly lose to a bloc of right-wing parties, 176 seats to 173, with 99% of the votes counted. Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson is now expected to form a government. The bloc includes the Sweden Democrats, a far-right party that has campaigned against rising gang shootings. The final result is still to be confirmed after a recount, which is standard practice in Sweden. But despite this, Ms Andersson accepted defeat at a news conference on&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27199,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27197\/revisions\/27199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}