Swedish Government Says It May Scrap Budget Vote to Avoid Defeat
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Sweden’s government may cancel a final parliament vote on next year’s budget and re-submit the plan to avoid a defeat that could prompt new elections, after the king-maker Sweden Democrats threatened to block the budget.
If the Sweden Democrats announce that they will oppose the government’s budget, a first step could be to hand the proposal back to the finance committee in parliament to give the government more time to try to win enough backing for its budget ahead of a new vote at a later date, Financial Markets Minister Per Bolund said in an interview in Stockholm today.