Swedish right-wing leader abandons PM bid with Lofven waiting in the wings


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  • Thursday, 01 Jul 2021

FILE PHOTO: Sweden's Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson during the election campaign in Stockholm, Sweden September 8, 2018. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish right-wing Prime Minister candidate Ulf Kristersson said on Thursday he was abandoning his attempt to form a government just two days after the speaker gave him the first stab at forming one following the fall of the centre-left cabinet.

"The parliamentary conditions for forming a new centre-right government do not exist," he told a news conference.

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