Sweden will have a new conservative prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, who will govern in a minority with a coalition of three right-wing parties with the external backing of the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD), after the agreements to form a government were closed on Friday five weeks later. of the September 11 elections. “The moderates, the Christian Democrats and the liberals will form a government and cooperate with the SD in Parliament,” Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party, told a news conference in Stockholm.
The voting and investiture session in the Riksdag (Parliament) will be held next Monday the 17th. “We received a mandate from the Swedish people on election day, we take it with the utmost seriousness. The change is not only necessary, it is also possible, and the four parties can offer that change”, said Kristersson.
The future prime minister will thus remove from office the Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson, whose center-left coalition did not achieve a sufficient majority despite the fact that the Social Democratic Party received the most votes. In the elections of September 11, the four parties of the conservative spectrum -including the extreme right- added 49.5% of the votes, a minimal advantage over the four-party bloc of the Social Democratic Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, who received 48, 6%.
The great winner of the elections was the far-right anti-immigration party Sweden Democrats (SD), led by Jimmie Åkesson, who with 20.5% became the second parliamentary force after the Social Democrats (30.4%). In addition, the SD emerged as the party with the most votes in the conservative bloc, unseating the party with the most votes so far, the Moderate Party, which had 19.1%.
Until now, the Swedish parties had applied a cordon sanitaire to the extreme right, but already in this campaign the three parties of the conservative spectrum hinted at their willingness to rely on the SD to return to power.
