", "Trade Union leader new chairman of the Social Democrats - Stockholm News", "Jag kommer att vara jätteglad att fortsätta bygga", "Election hopeful Stefan Löfven aims to return Sweden to the left", "Tough on finance, tough on migrants: how Stefan Löfven brought Sweden's left in from the cold", "Sweden Social Democrats will end tax cuts if they win election", "Förhandlingar pågår för att undvika regeringskaos", "Sparar över 100 miljoner på inställt nyval", "UNHCR viewpoint: 'Refugee' or 'migrant' – Which is right? The Prime Minister made sure to point out that the Swedish judicial system, prosecutors and courts, are completely independent. His wife, who he divorced the previous year, believes he was too much of a coward to assassinate Palme. But Pettersson’s lawyers immediately appealed against the decision. He secured a second term in the aftermath of the inconclusive 2018 election, which saw both main parties suffer losses; after a months-long impasse that set a new record for government formation, Löfven was able to secure abstentions from MPs belonging to the Centre Party, the Left Party and the Liberals, and was re-elected by the Riksdag in January 2019. He was placed in an orphanage 10 months after his birth.

Such a vote would, if supported by several parties, result in a removal of the Löfven cabinet. The 9 September election produced a hung parliament, with the centre-right and centre-left blocs that have dominated Swedish politics for decades each securing about 40% of the vote and separated by a single seat, heralding months of complex coalition talks. Löfven immediately announced that he would call an early election, to be held on 22 March 2015.[16]. Löfven led his party through the 2014 general election, which resulted in a hung parliament. The party has said it backs the Social Democrats' plan to lead a new government but will not join it. The cabinet also proposed identity checks for every individual passing the Danish–Swedish border and closing of the Öresund Bridge, giving up the latter on 8 December 2015 after severe criticism. The Riksdag passes legislation on identity checks. Arne Ruth, the former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, said in 1998 that it was the aftermath of resignations and scandals, rather than the assassination itself, that haunted the country: “The total failure of the judicial system to handle the case was in a way an even worse disaster for Sweden.”. “Is it really Olof Palme who’s been shot?”. There have been several titles used; "King's Chancellor", "Chancellor of the Realm", "Grand Chancellor", "Privy Councillor", "Prime Minister", "Council President" and Minister of State, once again. The southern Swedish state of Skane has become a fortress of the far-right Sweden Democrats.

[45] He is married to politician and trade unionist Ulla Löfven and has 2 stepchildren. There was an intimacy to it.”. By the start of the 1990s, so much time and money had been spent fruitlessly pursuing Pettersson and the PKK that basic questions about the night of the murder remained unanswered. The first privatspanarna emerged in the wake of Holmér’s failed raid on the PKK, and were sometimes accused of harassing witnesses and interfering with the official investigation. Politically, Engström was what is known in Sweden as a moderat – firmly to the right of Palme. “It goes in waves,” says Jan Stocklassa, a journalist and author of a 2018 book on the Palme murder, The Man Who Played with Fire, which will be published in English in October. "He also pointed out that everyone is equal before the law and that the government neither can nor will try to influence the judicial process.". Löfven enjoys sports and supports the ice hockey club Modo from Örnsköldsvik[43] and the football clubs Tottenham Hotspur[44] and GIF Sundsvall. “You might as well have asked them to defend the prime minister against pigs falling from balconies.” The last murder of a Swedish government official was in 1792, when King Gustav III was shot by assassins at a masked ball. The red-green bloc ended up having a slight advantage in a hung parliament of 144 seats to 143 for the centre-right coalition Alliansen. Mr Trump said he and Mr Lofven had agreed to speak again over the next two days, another claim disputed by Sweden. The second Löfven Government was sworn in on 21 January. “One of my earliest memories is of my parents discussing who killed Palme,” a friend I met while living in Sweden for the past couple of years told me. f the unofficial investigations into Palme’s death have gathered pace over time, it is only in the past couple of years that the official Palme investigation has taken on new life.