Sweden's First Female Prime Minister Quits After Parliament Votes for Opposition Budg

[MMC]

Sweden's First Female Prime Minister Quits After Parliament Votes for Opposition Budget.....


Hours after being appointed as Sweden's first female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson stepped down Wednesday after suffering a budget defeat in parliament that led her coalition partner, the Green Party, to leave the two-party minority government.





The Associated Press reported that the Swedish parliament rejected the government's budget proposal in favor of the opposition's, which includes the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats, a group with Neo-Nazi roots.


Members of the Green Party said it was in their best interests to pull their support for Andersson after the budget defeat, saying they could not sit on a government that approves a plan by the Sweden Democrats.


Andersson said there is a constitutional practice that a coalition government should resign if one party chooses to leave, so she is following that practice......snip~


Sweden's First Female Prime Minister Quits After Parliament Votes for Opposition Budget (msn.com)


Well you know she isnt a real Democrat. A US Democrat would never give up power and would do everything it can to not be recalled.

[Adelaide]

In Parliamentary systems, I think it is pretty much unofficial protocol to trigger an election if your party cannot pass a budget. Happens in Canada, also. It suggests you do not have enough confidence in the House, so you can either get a vote of nonconfidence or trigger an election without that. The Riksdag likely works similarly, by the sounds.

[RMNIXON]

In Parliamentary systems, I think it is pretty much unofficial protocol to trigger an election if your party cannot pass a budget. Happens in Canada, also. It suggests you do not have enough confidence in the House, so you can either get a vote of nonconfidence or trigger an election without that. The Riksdag likely works similarly, by the sounds.

It still comes across as a bit cowardly and giving up.

[Dr. Who]

It still comes across as a bit cowardly and giving up.

It's not. It's just protocol when a coalition falls apart. She needs a new mandate as Prime Minister heading a single-party government. If she has enough support from the other parties, she will be appointed Prime Minister, which according to news reports, seems fairly certain to happen.

[The Booman]

She still gets a participation trophy, right?

[MMC]

It's not. It's just protocol when a coalition falls apart. She needs a new mandate as Prime Minister heading a single-party government. If she has enough support from the other parties, she will be appointed Prime Minister, which according to news reports, seems fairly certain to happen.

I dont think she will have support of the Sweden Democrats.

[Dr. Who]

I dont think she will have support of the Sweden Democrats.

I don't think she needs their vote.

[MMC]

I don't think she needs their vote.

I dont know.....but then I havent heard anything else since she stepped down.

[Adelaide]

It still comes across as a bit cowardly and giving up.

If you cannot pass a budget, you stall the entire government. Rather than playing chicken, most parliamentary systems seem to have unofficial or official protocols for triggering an election or shuffle.

Stephen Harper triggered 2 or 3 such elections before he was able to get a majority and pass any budget he wanted.