New Swedish PM Resigns on First Day in Job, Hopes for Swift Return

New Swedish PM Resigns on First Day in Job, Hopes for Swift Return
Current Finance Minister and Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson is appointed as the country's new Prime Minister after a voting at the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen in Stockholm, Sweden, on Nov. 24, 2021. Erik Simander /TT News Agency/via Reuters
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STOCKHOLM—Sweden’s first female prime minister, Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson, resigned on Wednesday after less than 12 hours in the top job after the Green Party quit their two-party coalition, stoking political uncertainty.

But Andersson said she had told the speaker of parliament she hoped to be appointed prime minister again as the head of a single-party government, and the prospects of that happening appeared fairly strong given support from other parties.