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As head of state, the king should be the one to propose the next prime minister, writes SD member Björn Söder in a motion to the Riksdag.
It is the speaker who nominates the prime minister, which is stipulated in the form of government.
But after the 2018 election, it was seen how the Speaker was drawn into the political game in a way that had not been experienced before, writes Söder.
“There are therefore strong reasons to take measures to separate the Speaker’s role from the purely political game surrounding the Prime Minister’s role and not continue to be subject to party political strategies and foul play.”
That Sweden differs from other parliamentary democracies is due to a compromise that was concluded between the Social Democrats and the bourgeois parties in 1971, the so-called Torekov compromise, writes the SD member.
Söder has motioned about this several times in the past but never received a hearing for his proposal.