Swedish PM Kristersson resigns after election loss

Opposition parties led by Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats look set to win 176 seats in the 349-seat Riksdag, Sweden's parliament. His right-wing bloc looks set to win 173 seats in the Riksdag, according to data from the Swedish Election Authority. After a prime minister resigns, the Speaker of the Riksdag holds talks with all parties to proposes a candidate for the next leader, which is then voted on by MPs. "Now it is the speaker who will lead the next stage of the way to a new government. After the 2022 election in Sweden, it took 37 days to form a government, while in 2018 it took 134 days. They had offered outside support to the current centre-right coalition, which had overseen a dramatic tightening of migration policy. But in a surprise upset for the party, it lost support for the first time since entering parliament in 2010 - down three percentage points on 2022. On Wednesday, election committees began counting early votes that were submitted late, as well as votes from abroad that did not arrive before election day.