Swedish politics went into crisis mode in early December when the far-right Sweden Democrats sided with the country’s four main centre-right parties to defeat the budget proposal of the Social Democrat-Green minority government, triggering an announcement by prime minister Stefan Löfven to call snap elections in March.
Löfven cancelled the new polls over the weekend after reaching an agreement with the four conservative parties that they would abstain from future budget votes in order to bar the Sweden Democrats from influencing Swedish policies.
