Centre Party Leader Crushed in PM Vote - 324 Say No
Only her own 25 MPs backed Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist. Now Ulf Kristersson gets a week to try - and the Speaker has just two attempts left before a snap election.
Only her own 25 MPs backed Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist. Now Ulf Kristersson gets a week to try - and the Speaker has just two attempts left before a snap election.
Sami, Jewish and Tornedalian identity is closed to outsiders, says the Social Democrats' minority spokesperson. But Swedes, she says, are not an ethnic group at all.
Only 69 percent of Swedes now trust that elections are run correctly, down from 77 percent a year ago. Researchers blame the suspected vote fraud in Borlänge - and only a third of Sweden Democrat voters still trust the count.
He allegedly came back to a Swedish playground with a samurai sword shouting "I'm going to kill you". Three men were struck. Now prosecutors want the 32-year-old foreign national deported for life.
Northern Sweden was supposed to lead a green industrial revolution. Instead Northvolt is bankrupt, the state-backed Hybrit steel project is frozen and Stegra is still billions short.
Swedish teens from a "White Power" chat group are charged with attacking a lone Muslim woman. Days later two of them were forced to kneel at knifepoint and apologise on camera. Six are now charged.
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