Sweden's Andersson fails second bid to form government

Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson told parliamentary speaker Andreas Norlen on Oct. 13, 2026 that conditions were not in place to form a government tolerated by parliament. It was her second failure since the Sept. 13 election, which gave the centre-left 176 seats to the right's 173, leaving Sweden under caretaker Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.