Article 5KZ4K Stefan Löfven back as Swedish PM weeks after no-confidence vote

Stefan Löfven back as Swedish PM weeks after no-confidence vote

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Jon Henley
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Social Democrat leader says he will resign again if he cannot find majority support for a budget by autumn

Sweden's parliament has backed the return of Stefan Lofven as prime minister, weeks after he became the first Swedish leader to lose a no-confidence vote.

But Lofven, a former union boss who guided the Social Democrats to power in 2014 and then moved the party to the right after inconclusive 2018 elections, has yet to find majority support for a budget and said he would resign again this autumn if he could not do so by then.

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