Swedish Prime Minister Social Democrat Stefan Löfven was overthrown on Monday June 21 by a vote of no confidence in Parliament, a first in Swedish political history which gives him a week to either submit his resignation or call new elections.
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As a result of a turnaround last week by the Left Party, until then occasional support from the executive, the censure of the head of government was supported by an absolute majority of 181 deputies out of 349 seats, against 109 votes against the motion and 51 abstentions, depending on the result of the vote.
To bring down the government, the voices of the ex-Communist Party mingled with those of the far right Sweden Democrats as well as the right - conservative Party of Moderates and Christian Democrats.
Stefan Löfven has one week to announce early elections or announce his resignation
After eleven unsuccessful votes of no confidence in Swedish political history, Stefan Löfven, who had so far stood out for his ability to survive political crises since coming to power in 2014, becomes the first head of government to be overthrown in this way . The head of government called a press conference at 11:30 am (09:30 GMT). He now has a week to either announce early elections in the middle of the summer, or resign for good.
Subtlety of the Swedish Constitution: in the event of early elections, they would be added to the ballot scheduled for September 2022, which would result in two legislative elections in just over a year.
In the event of resignation, the outgoing Prime Minister would then leave to the Speaker of Parliament the task of opening negotiations with a party to find a new head of government ... who could however be Stefan Löfven again on the basis of a new one. political agreement, analysts point out.
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Dissent broke out on Thursday, June 17, when the Left Party ("
Vänsterpartiet
") announced its intention to vote no confidence. The reason: a project, still preliminary, of reform of the framed rents, one of the totems of the party which sees in it one of the pillars of the Swedish social model, in spite of an archisaturated rental market. The proposal, which appears in the so-called “
January
”
government agreement signed in
early 2019, provides for free rents for new constructions.