Swedish PM Calls Snap Election for Next Year as Budget Fails
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Prime Minister Stefan Loefven called Sweden’s first snap election in more than half a century after an anti-immigration party ignored parliamentary tradition and killed his budget proposal.
Loefven, 57, was today unable to get his first budget through parliament after the Sweden Democrats forced its defeat, calling for deep reductions in immigration amid record inflows into the Nordic nation. Loefven’s offers for a broader coalition were also rejected by the former Alliance government.