Dadgostar pushes four-party government as Centre faces PM vote

Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar has renewed her call for a four-party government led by Magdalena Andersson as parliament prepares to test Centre leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist for prime minister.

Responding on Thursday, Dadgostar told Sveriges Radio she understood the Speaker's decision as an attempt to settle the Centre Party's proposed middle-ground alternative through a parliamentary vote.

She said the four parties backing Andersson as prime minister should negotiate a government together. In her response to SVT, she argued that bringing the centrist option to a clear conclusion would allow the process to move on.

That would mean a different line-up from the five-party government the Speaker is putting before MPs: Centre, the Social Democrats, Christian Democrats, Greens and Liberals. The Left Party is outside that proposal.

Thand Ringqvist has accepted the test but says the conditions for a centrist government remain absent. Her exploratory talks had sought Andersson as leader.

The vote takes place on 3 November at 13:00. A candidate is rejected if 175 MPs vote against. Dadgostar's reaction sets out the Left's negotiating demand without announcing a four-party agreement.

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