Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven has offered to make new concessions in order to win the support of the Centre and Liberal parties, just two days after they voted him down as next prime minister.
The leader of the Centre Party, Annie Lööf, said on Tuesday that she is open to supporting Stefan Löfven as prime minister, but only if the Social Democrats’ leader makes a series of concessions.
A growing majority of voters for Sweden’s four-party centre-right Alliance support working with the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats to drive through policy in the parliament, according to a new poll.
One of Sweden's four female party leaders has marked her return from maternity leave in a comedy video that proves the Nordic country is streets ahead of most nations when it comes to gender equality.
Annie Lööf, the leader of one of Sweden's four major centre right parties, has begun six months of parental leave after giving birth to a baby girl on Thursday.
"Two will become three", wrote Annie Lööf on Twitter on Wednesday. The leader of one of the four centre-right Alliance parties that made up the last government is expecting a baby in the autumn.
Friday's Social Democrat pre-election flirt with the Liberals was less ideologically queer than an invite to the libertarian and "union-busting" Centre Party, observers told The Local on Friday.
The Centre Party fell to its lowest result since 1967 in a new voters' poll published on Sunday following weeks of turbulence surrounding the party's new programme.
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has underlined the need for the four party Alliance to develop a joint 2014 election manifesto, welcoming Centre Party leader Annie Lööf's invitation for talks at her Småland home.
After the severely criticized head of the Agency for Economic and Regional Growth was forced to leave her post, politicians are calling for an end to the system in which sacked heads of government agencies are kept on with full pay in alleged "non-jobs", in what is becoming known as the “elephant graveyard”.
Fredrik Reinfeldt on Thursday announced a government reshuffle, with new Centre Party head Annie Lööf appointed minister for enterprise, European MP Lena Ek minister for the environment and Anna-Karin Hatt IT and energy minister.
