Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven resigned (FT) after losing a no-confidence vote but said he will try to form a new government before calling snap elections. Sweden’s political system has been shaken by the rise of the nationalist Sweden Democrats, now the country’s third-largest party.
France: Both President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Republic on the Move (LREM) party and Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party failed to win a single regional election (NYT) yesterday in votes that were seen as an important bellwether for presidential elections next year. They were outperformed by traditional center-left and center-right parties.
