{"id":10399,"date":"2018-09-25T10:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T17:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=10399"},"modified":"2018-09-25T10:12:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T17:12:51","slug":"swedens-prime-minister-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=10399","title":{"rendered":"Sweden&#8217;s prime minister to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"StoryBody__root--2VihO\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\">Stefan L\u00f6fven, Sweden&#8217;s prime minister since 2014 and leader of the center-left Social Democrats, has been ousted after a no confidence vote in parliament, reports\u00a0<a class=\"StoryBody__link--10w8x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20180925\/swedish-prime-minister-stefan-lofven-confidence-vote\">The Local Sweden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StoryBody__paragraph--2-Doz\"><strong>The big picture:\u00a0<\/strong>After a\u00a0<a class=\"InternalLoadLink__root--17C4m StoryBody__link--10w8x 5be4bf87-37ac-4ee9-865a-a11390efffe7-1e65ab67-98b2-41cb-8d8c-7f0059d872ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/sweden-election-polls-far-right-migration-crime-5be4bf87-37ac-4ee9-865a-a11390efffe7.html\">Sept. 9 election<\/a>\u00a0saw the establishment Social Democrats finish with their\u00a0<a class=\"InternalLoadLink__root--17C4m StoryBody__link--10w8x 1983b2b2-d5f8-4303-8fee-84d0811b3dd5-1e65ab67-98b2-41cb-8d8c-7f0059d872ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/sweden-democrats-election-indecision-populism-1983b2b2-d5f8-4303-8fee-84d0811b3dd5.html\">lowest vote share<\/a>\u00a0since World War I, the Swedish government was left in a state of flux, with no party receiving an absolute majority. The turmoil has been exacerbated by the rise of the far-right, anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats, who had their best election performance ever and now wield significant power in parliament. Leaders of the center-right and center-left coalitions have ruled out working with SD, who have roots in neo-Nazism, but the ousting of L\u00f6fven has raised more questions about the potential need for cooperation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"SplitLayout__root--O2qWp\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"ShareLinks__root--38a4-\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefan L\u00f6fven, Sweden&#8217;s prime minister since&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10400,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10399\/revisions\/10400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}