- Title: Sweden's Moderate party leader Kristersson ready to form new government
- Date: 14th September 2022
- Summary: STRANGNAS, SWEDEN (SEPTEMBER 11, 2022) (REUTERS) LEADER OF THE MODERATE PARTY, ULF KRISTERSSON ARRIVING TO POLLING STATION VARIOUS OF KRISTERSSON VOTING KRISTERSSON BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) LEADER OF THE MODERATE PARTY, ULF KRISTERSSON, SAYING: "In a week's time, I hope we're in the midst of discussing the next government's tasks. We have two weeks to go before the parliament opens again and I'm going to do everything I can to have a quick and smooth and very good negotiation after the result is ready tonight." KRISTERSSON BEING INTERVIEWED OUTSIDE POLLING STATION STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (SEPTEMBER 12, 2022)(REUTERS) MODERATE PARTY LEADER ULF KRISTERSSON WALKING ONTO STAGE SUPPORTERS CHEERING (SOUNDBITE)(Swedish) MODERATE PARTY LEADER, ULF KRISTERSSON, SAYING: "The definite result must be established. If we then have the parliamentary prerequisites, I will gather my side of the political aisle to cooperate. I will be very humble in that task but I am ready to do all I can to form a new, stable and vigorous government for the whole of Sweden and all its citizens." SUPPORTERS CHEERING STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (SEPTEMBER 10, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF LEADER OF THE MODERATE PARTY, ULF KRISTERSSON, ON STAGE AT ELECTION RALLY PEOPLE LISTENING KRISTERSSON ADDRESSING RALLY MODERATE LOGO ON BACK OF SWEATER KRISTERSSON COMING OFF STAGE (SOUNDBITE) (English) LEADER OF THE MODERATE PARTY, ULF KRISTERSSON, SAYING: "Well, my hopes are quite obvious. I mean, we hope to win and we will win if people who really want to have change, if they vote for change, we will deliver change. But we really need that support from people." JOURNALISTS AND POLICE
- Embargoed: 28th September 2022 19:25
- Keywords: Magdalena Andersson Moderate party Sweden Democrats Ulf Kristersson election
- Location: STOCKHOLM AND STRANGNAS, SWEDEN
- City: STOCKHOLM AND STRANGNAS, SWEDEN
- Country: Sweden
- Topics: Europe,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA001537414092022RP1
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- Story Text: After a close-fought election and with almost all votes counted on Wednesday (September 14), the leader of the Swedish Moderate party Ulf Kristersson said he was the right bloc's candidate to be prime minister and was ready to form a new government.
Earlier in the evening, Sweden's Social Democrat prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, accepted defeat, handing the four-party right-wing opposition bloc victory and first go at forming a new government.
A handful of votes remain to be counted, but Andersson, who became Sweden's first woman prime minister last year, said the results showed the right bloc had won.
The Moderates, Sweden Democrats, Christian Democrats and Liberals had held a one-seat lead after Sunday's (September 11) election but looked like getting 176 seats in the 349-seat parliament to the centre-left's 173 seats, according to the latest figures from the election authority.Â
The result still has to be officially confirmed, probably by the weekend.
The election marks a watershed in Swedish politics with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, shunned by all the major parties when they first entered parliament in 2010, on the threshold of gaining influence over government policy.
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