Prime Minister's Ouster Brings Few Signs of Breaking Swedish Deadlock
- Speaker to gauge who has best chance of forming government
- Swedish political establishment upended by nationalist surge
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Stefan Lofven was defiant after becoming the first Swedish prime minister in history to be ousted by a confidence vote in parliament.
The 61-year-old was voted out of office on Tuesday after the center-right opposition and the nationalists teamed up to end four years of Social Democratic rule. But deeper cooperation between the two looks harder to come by. There are substantial misgivings within the four-party Alliance about working with the Sweden Democrats, a party with neo-Nazi roots.