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Sweden’s centre-left PM Andersson concedes defeat in elections

Sweden's Prime Minister Andersson said that the 'the preliminary result is clear enough to draw a conclusion' that her centre-left bloc had lost power. [File: Marko Saavala/ TT News Agency/ AFP]

Swedish centre-left Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has accepted defeat after the four-party right-wing opposition bloc got better of her Social Democrats, which has been in power since 2014.

Andersson, who became Sweden’s first female prime minister last year, announced on Wednesday that she would resign after an unprecedented right-wing and far-right bloc appeared on course to win the general election.

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