Less than eight hours after being elected to parliament, new Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson was forced to resign on Wednesday after her budget was defeated and her environmental allies left the government.
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There is a constitutional practice whereby a coalition government resigns when a party leaves it.
I do not want to lead a government whose legitimacy is questioned,
”said the social democratic leader at a press conference, where she said she hoped to be re-elected to her post in a subsequent vote.