On Monday, Sweden’s long-embattled Social Democratic prime minister, Stefan Löfven, lost a no-confidence vote in parliament. With the country’s politics increasingly fractured and unstable, this should not come as a particular surprise. Prime minister since 2014, Löfven has long headed a weak minority government; he already lost a previous no-confidence motion in fall 2018, reducing him to a caretaker role for four months until he could form a new administration.
