Sweden narrowly escaped a political crisis in the country three months before the parliamentary elections, and in light of a dispute between it and Turkey over its request to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Today, Tuesday, Swedish Interior and Justice Minister Morgan Johansson survived a vote of no-confidence called by the Swedish National Democrats, by only one vote.
And 174 deputies withheld their confidence from Johansson, with the necessary 175 votes needed for the vote to succeed.
For her part, Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersen threatened to resign, along with the entire government in this case, which could lead to a crisis in the country’s leadership just weeks after the country submitted an application to join the defense alliance, an application that Turkey has blocked due to its fears of Sweden’s support. Kurdish groups.
Sweden’s next parliamentary elections are scheduled for next September, and a caretaker government would have been able to rule the country until then if Anderson and her cabinet ministers had resigned.
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