After Resigning, Magdelana Andersson Is Likely To Be Re-elected As Swedish PM Next Week

Madgalena Andersson. (Wikimedia Commons/Frankie Fouganthin)

JAKARTA - Magdalena Andersson, the first woman to serve as Sweden's prime minister and resigned just hours after taking office, has a second chance to take up the post next week.

Speaker of the parliament Andreas Norlen, who is tasked with arranging the appointment of a new prime minister, said on Thursday he would ask lawmakers to vote again on Andersson's candidacy as early as next week.

Andersson, who heads the Social Democrats, had narrow support from parliament to form a new government on Wednesday morning, replacing her party mate Stefan Löfven.

However, in the afternoon Sweden's first female prime minister quit after her proposed 2022 budget was rejected in favor of a text written by the opposition.

At that time, the Greens, the junior coalition partner of the Social Democrats, withdrew from the government, triggering Andersson's resignation. Under the Swedish convention, when a coalition party leaves the government, the prime minister is expected to resign.

Quoted from Politico on November 26, Andersson now hopes to lead a minority Social Democratic government.

Announcing his plans to re-run Andersson, Norlen criticized the Greens leadership in unusual terms, saying they should have told him their participation in government was contingent on passing the government budget.

"If I had known that, then we could have avoided this turbulence," he said.

Norlen said that Wednesday's developments must have seemed 'incomprehensible' to Swedes and risked 'undermining confidence in parliament and the political system.'

Norlen said parties in parliament had told him they would defend their voting preferences in a new vote on Magdalena Andersson's nomination, clearing the way for her to be appointed prime minister for a second time when the vote is held at 1 p.m. next Monday.