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- 1Sweden's centre left wins more seats but still can't govern●Sweden's centre left won 176 seats to 173 and still can't govern. Andersson gave up after the Left Party backed a Modera
Sweden remains deadlocked after an election in which the centre-left bloc won 176 seats to 173, yet Magdalena Andersson gave up trying to form a government. The Left Party's decision to back a Moderate for Speaker angered her bloc, the Centre Party refuses any deal giving influence to the Sweden Democrats or the Left, and Jimmie Åkesson won't support a government without SD. Ulf Kristersson, despite leading the smaller bloc, may now attempt to form a government.
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Swedish politics is abuzz over talk of 'Tidö 2.0', a reference to the Tidö Agreement that underpins the centre-right government's cooperation with the Sweden Democrats. Discussion centres on a possible renegotiation or extension of the deal, with commentators debating what a new version would mean for government policy and the right-wing bloc ahead of upcoming elections.
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Birgitta Ohlsson is a Swedish politician from the Liberal Party who served as Minister for Gender Equality and later as Minister for EU Affairs and Trade. She has also worked internationally with the National Democratic Institute on democracy and human rights issues. The term is trending in Sweden on X and also appears high in Google searches, but the posts collected do not reveal what specifically sparked the current attention, so the reason for the trend is not clear from the evidence.