Sweden's government deadlock reaches a decision point as Andersson reports to the speaker

Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson is due to report to parliamentary speaker Andreas Norlén on Monday on her mandate to form a government, a month after a general election left Sweden's red-green bloc with a narrow majority but no government. Talks remain stuck between the Centre Party, which rules out governing with the Left Party, and the Left, which wants cabinet posts of its own. Norlén could now schedule a first vote on Andersson as prime minister, though Swedish commentators give her little chance of winning it.

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