Vote in parliament: Andersson re-elected Swedish head of government

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Magdalena Andersson: Prime Minister again

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The Swedish parliament has re-elected Magdalena Andersson as Prime Minister.

This makes the 54-year-old the first woman to lead the country as head of government after a first lightning term in office ended after a few hours' resignation.

The Social Democrat resigned shortly after being elected head of government last Wednesday after her governing coalition broke up in the dispute over the budget.

Your minority government, which holds 100 out of 349 seats in parliament, will have to rule with a budget drawn up by the opposition.

For her own projects she will now have to get the support of the other parties on a case-by-case basis.

Andersson won the Left Party's support for their planned coalition government at the last minute last week - and promised a pension increase in return.

However, because of the concessions to the left, the small Center Party withdrew its support for Andersson's budget.

This then failed in parliament.

Instead, the MPs voted for the budget of the opposition - consisting of the conservative moderates, the Christian Democrats and the far right Sweden Democrats.

The Greens then resigned from the government.

Andersson had previously indicated that he wanted to govern with the opposition's budget as well.

Andersson is the first female prime minister of the Scandinavian country.

The 54-year-old former finance minister took over the leadership of the Social Democrats at the beginning of November after the former party and government leader Stefan Löfven resigned.

With the move, he wanted to give his party, which was in the low in the polls, better chances in the parliamentary elections next September.

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