Sweden’s centre-left leader fails in second bid to form government

The leader of Sweden’s left-wing Social Democratic Party, Magdalena Andersson, has said her efforts to form a government have failed, prolonging a political deadlock a month after parliamentary elections. Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, Andersson said talks with the three other parties in the country’s left-wing bloc had hit an impasse. Despite progress, she said she did not believe conditions were in place to “form a government that can be tolerated by parliament”. It is her second time failing to form a government after Sweden’s parliamentary vote on September 13.