Swedish government

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The State Chancellery is located in the Rosenbad building ensemble , where the cabinet meets.

Sweden's government consists of the Prime Minister ( Swedish : statsminister ) and the ministers (Swedish: statsråd or less often minister ).

Constitutional position

The Prime Minister is on a proposal of the President of the Reichstag (Swe .: talman ) from the Reichstag elected. The Swedish rules for forming a government are comparatively detailed and formalized. At the same time, they facilitate the formation of minority governments , since an absolute majority of the Reichstag majority is not necessary. The Prime Minister is elected unless an absolute majority of the legal members of the Reichstag (i.e. at least 175 of the 349 MPs) votes against him. A relative majority against the candidate cannot prevent him from taking office. This case last occurred when the government was formed in 2019 (after the 2018 Reichstag election ) (115 MPs for, 153 MPs against the proposal). The normal case, however, is a minority government with a relative majority.

The Prime Minister appoints the ministers of his government and announces them to the Reichstag. The government's term of office is not linked to the parliamentary term of the Reichstag. Since 2011, if the Prime Minister has not resigned, he has had to face a vote of confidence within two weeks of the first meeting of the Reichstag. He is voted out if the majority of the members vote against him.

The Reichstag can remove individual ministers or the prime minister (and with him the entire government) by means of a vote of no confidence . If the entire government is ousted by a vote of no confidence, the prime minister can call new elections within a week. In this case, the government remains in office as the managing government until a successor government is formed.

history

In the history of Sweden , since the introduction of universal suffrage (1921), with few exceptions, minority governments have conducted state affairs, either with parliamentary support from other parties or - less often - by looking for changing majorities in the respective issues.

In the 20th century, the Social Democratic Labor Party (SAP) dominated the political landscape. In 1920 she came to government for the first time under Karl Hjalmar Branting . The Social Democrats then provided the head of government for a long time, namely from 1932 to 1976, from 1982 to 1991 and from 1994 to 2006, as well as from 2014. Long-term social democratic prime ministers were Per Albin Hansson from 1936 to 1946 and Tage Erlander from 1946 to 1969 .

Current government

Since January 2019, the Social Democrats (S) and the Greens (MP) have formed a minority government under the leadership of Stefan Löfven . Of the 23 ministers, 12 are women. The Social Democrats have 18 ministers, the Greens five.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lag om ändring i regeringsformen (SFS 2010: 1408)