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Sweden: On Wednesday, Magdalena Andersson was named leader, but she resigned after her coalition partner withdrew and her budget failed to pass.
Instead, parliament approved a budget proposed by the opposition, which includes anti-immigrant far-right groups.
“I have told the speaker that I wish to resign,” Ms. Andersson told reporters.
Her coalition partner, the Greens Party said it could not accept a budget “drafted for the first time with the far-right”.
Ms. Andersson stated that she hoped to run for Prime Minister again as the leader of a single-party administration.
“There is a constitutional practice that a coalition government should resign when one party quits,” the Social Democrat said on Wednesday. “I don’t want to lead a government whose legitimacy will be questioned.
On the next step, the speaker of parliament indicated he will call party leaders.
Ms. Andersson was elected prime minister earlier on Wednesday since she just needed a majority of MPs to vote in her favor under Swedish law.
Sections of Sweden’s parliament, or Riksdag, gave the 54-year-old Social Democrat leader a standing ovation a century after women were granted the right to vote.
Her election as the leader of a minority administration came as a result of a last-minute compromise with the opposition Left party in exchange for higher pensions for many Swedes. She also won the support of the Greens, a coalition partner.
174 of the Riksdag’s 349 members voted against her. But, in addition to the 117 MPs who backed Ms. Andersson, another 57 abstained, giving her a one-vote triumph.
She began her political career in 1996 as a political consultant to then-Prime Minister Goran Persson, a former junior swimming champion from the university city of Uppsala. She has served as finance minister for the past seven years.
Sweden was the only Nordic country without a female prime minister until MPs backed Magdalena Andersson.