The 54-year-old economist and former competitive swimmer, Magdalena Andersson, paved her way previously to become the country’s first female Prime Minister. She began her political career in 1996 as political adviser to then-Prime Minister Goran Persson. And has spent the past seven years as finance minister. And now, will get a second chance at becoming the country’s prime minister.
She was first appointed last week and planned to head a two-party coalition with the Greens- but resigned just seven hours later after failing to get parliamentary backing for her budget and the Greens quit the government in response. Her most obvious cooperative partners are the Greens, the Centre, and Left parties. The filthy process which led to Andersson both being appointed and quitting as prime minister on the same day throws back the difficulty she has had linking the allies behind her policy agenda.
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Ms. Andersson said that she hoped to try to become prime minister again as a single-party government leader. Parliament is expected to appoint her as the head of a minority government made up solely of the Social Democrats, with just 10 months before September general elections. Andersson was elected with an extremely tiny margin -173 members of parliament voted against her and two or more, she would have lost the vote.
It feels good, and I’m very eager to start working,” Andersson said at a press conference just after the vote on Monday. She will be Sweden’s first female prime minister once she officially takes over the office on Tuesday. Even being a nation that has a huge list of championing gender equality, Sweden has never before had a woman as prime minister. She will now lead a one-party Social Democrat government, rather than the alliance Green-Social Democrat government which had before been in power since 2014.
