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Swedish MPs make their watchdogs harder to sack

Individual voting lights arranged as the seating plan on a wall in the Swedish Parliament chamber.
The Riksdag’s voting display during an open day in 2015. Illustrative photograph. AleWi / CC BY-SA 4.0

Swedish MPs have made it harder for parliament to dismiss its ombudsmen for losing confidence in them, adopting a constitutional safeguard that takes effect on 1 January 2027.

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