Sweden’s centre-left PM Andersson concedes defeat in elections

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has conceded defeat in the general election and announced that she will resign.
Ulf Kristersson of the Moderate Party will now try to build a government after his coalition won a parliamentary majority by just a few seats.
But Kristersson’s reliance on the right-wing Sweden Democrats makes the job harder after they became the second-biggest party in Parliament.

Al Jazeera's @Paul Rhys reports from Malmo, Sweden.


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[noodles]

Excellent result for Sweden. Hope more European countries follow

[sbondesson]

I cast my vote for the SocialDemocrats the last election. After she was installed by her party Magdalena Andersson used my vote to throw Sweden into NATO and the Cold War. This year I cast my first ever right vote. Happy to see such a false person gone from power.

[xaviergms]

Great news for Sweden 🇸🇪! Make Sweden Great Again!

[goobermcgilicuty]

Center left, far right. The news is now for suckers of labels. Grow up!!!

[miry]

Great news from Sweden! 😀 The Social Democrats were simply too spineless and ineffectual to deal with the kind of problems facing the country today... Uncontrolled immigration leading to monstrous incidents, petty gang warfare with collateral damage inflicted mostly on the poor and vulnerable (i.e. not Journalists Public Figures or Politicians) - much needed reform and modernisation should take place ASAP! 🙂

[dwqhfre]

Donald Trump, this in for you. Democracy is

[fighter]

This why no one should EVER trust moderates

[kurtmcdonald]

Progress has been made we'll see if they do anything

[MajorGore]

Centre-left? I don't think "vänstern" in sweden are a centre-left block. They do have the party that is called "centerpartiet", but I don't even think that party has many centrist opinions. They are a progressive leftist party. Granted the center party is the most right-leaning party of the bloc, but that does not mean that you can call any of the other parties centrists. The social democrats are left wing, straight up, the "miljöpartiet" green party are progressive socialists and the "vänsterpartiet" are democratic socialists. These last parties are far left. If people want to call the sweden democrats far right, then make sure to put the correct labels on the leftist parties as well.

[babanagrahim]

I hope this new party takes back NATO application

[bumblebee]

People will be more divided then ever…let’s see what SD brings on the plate…

[tomrusack]

First act of new prime minister, call President Putin and try and get Sweden out of the sanctions debacle. Diplomacy and free trade equals a prosperous future. WEF ideology equals depression and squalor. This is it Sweden, life or death decision time.

[abra]

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We are the indigenous Amazigh people of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia Libya and others country) suffer from racism and identity theft, which is embodied in the repressive Arabization practiced by the ruling Arab dictatorial regimes.  Amazigh is the historical identity of North Africa, but the Arab dictatorial regimes are working to make it outside the framework of everything that is happening in this region by coercive Arabization. The abuse of power and the employment of islamique religion.  What creates a soil unsuitable for democracy and coexistence between peoples to confront human problems such as the environment and poverty .  Media and educational incitement to consider Arabism and Islam as the  and sublime identity imposed by law, creates an identity crisis that fuels ethnic and religious extremism and produces, as the world is experiencing, thousands of terrorists who strike inside and outside the borders, not to mention the death of thousands of immigrants fleeing poverty and injustice.  We call upon the countries that love freedom, peace and justice from Canada to Israel to America to Germany to Australia and the Netherlands. Effective assistance in breaking the siege imposed by the Arab regimes on the Amazigh peoples of North Africa has reached the point of banning Amazigh personal names and banning the Amazigh language in administration and courts. Associations and jurists interested in the Amazigh issue have what they present as evidence to consider the actions of Arab nationalists in North Africa amounting to war crimes against humanity.

[andrewareva]

Another European leader falls. Putin laughing in Moscow.