Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlén is to formally present Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist to parliament on Friday as his proposed prime minister. The speaker’s announcement puts her forward as a candidate in the parliamentary process; it does not record a parliamentary decision. [E1]
Norlén’s announced proposal describes a prospective coalition of the Centre Party, Social Democrats, Christian Democrats, Green Party and Liberals. The notice identifies the arrangement for which Ringqvist would be proposed, but does not state that those parties have formed a government. [E2]
The proposal is scheduled to be presented and tabled in the chamber for the first time on 30 October, followed by a second tabling on 2 November. Those dates set the parliamentary procedure before members are due to consider the nomination. [E3]
The Riksdag is scheduled to test the proposal on 3 November at 13:00. That vote, rather than the speaker’s presentation, is the next recorded decision point for Ringqvist’s nomination. [E4]
News.cn described the nomination as the latest attempt to break a political deadlock after September’s general election, with the parliamentary vote set for the following Tuesday. [E5]
Ringqvist told Swedish Television that she had accepted the nomination and said her party would continue working to ensure Sweden gets a government. Her acceptance does not itself establish the result of the scheduled vote. [E6]