STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Wednesday he would call a snap election for March next year following the defeat in parliament of his minority centre-left cabinet's first budget.
The crisis was sparked as the unaligned anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, who hold the balance of power, effectively blocked the budget while vowing to resist any finance bill unless the Nordic country tightened its generous asylum policy.
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