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The Social Democrats were hoping to maintain power in Sweden following the 2022 Election. It's power they have held most of the time through the decades but it appears that the grouping of four parties that includes the Sweden Democrats has won the contest for a majority of the 349 seats in the Riksdag (Parliament)... In the Center-Right group of parties a good night for the Sweden Democrats who talked crime and violence linked to mass immigration into the country they moved from 61 seats to 73 seats a gain of 12 to become the second largest parliamentary party...

Sweden’s new Schools Minister Lina Axelsson Kihlblom on Tuesday became the first transgender person to become a government minister in the Nordic country, a year after the appointment of Europe’s first transgender minister. The 51-year-old former school principal and lawyer was added to the Social Democratic government by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, who also became the first woman to hold that post. In her 2015 book “Will You Love Me Now?”, Axelsson Kihlblom described growing up as a girl in a boy’s body and her physical transition to a woman’s body, which was completed when she was 25. “Trans people...

The first Woman Prime Minister in Swedish History lasted less than one day, she resigned about 12 hours after becoming Prime Minister....Her coalition partner quit after her budget was defeated in Parliament. The budget that passed included the Anti-Immigrant Far Right Party (according to the BBC), the Green Party refused to go along with a budget that included the Far Right....

Sweden’s first female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, has resigned from office only hours after being voted in, Sweden’s official Twitter account announced Wednesday. The dramatic move came before Andersson was fully in office as she had not yet had counsel with the King, a spokesperson told CNN. Her resignation follows a budget defeat in parliament Wednesday, Sweden’s Twitter account added, with lawmakers supporting the opposition’s bill.