Government of Sweden
Sweden's government is (Swedish: statsminister ) of the Prime Minister and the Ministers ( Sw: Statsråd or rare minister ).
Constitutional position
The Prime Minister is the proposal of the President of the Reichstag ( Sw: talman ) elected by the Reichstag. When choosing an absolute majority for the nominee is required: The Prime Minister is elected, unless ( ie at least 176 MPs) is true, an absolute majority of the legal members of the Reichstag against him. A relative majority against the candidate can not prevent his taking office. This happened most recently in forming a government in 1978 (39 MPs for, 66 MPs against the proposal ).
The Prime Minister appoints the ministers of his government and announce it to the Reichstag.
The Reichstag can settle by a vote of censure individual ministers or the prime minister ( and with it the entire government ). If the entire government is deposed by a vote of no confidence, the Prime Minister can call an election within a week. In this case, the government remains as a caretaker government until a successor government in office.
Every four years elections are held to the Reichstag. If no major changes in the parliamentary position occurred, the current practice, the government can remain in office, without the Reichstag President is mandated by a government alternative look. Has the parliamentary situation is changing, the government resigns, and the president of the Reichstag examined together with the representatives of the parliamentary groups according to a new government.
The Swedish rules on forming a government are quite detailed and formalized. At the same time they facilitate the formation of minority governments, since no formal approval of the Reichstag majority is required.
History
In the history of Sweden have since the introduction of universal suffrage ( 1921), with few exceptions minority governments state business conducted; this either with the support of other parties in a parliamentary cooperation or - more rarely - by searching for ( changing ) parliamentary majorities in the substantive issues. By far the dominant party here was the Socialist Workers Party ( SAP), which under Karl Hjalmar Branting first came to power in 1920. From 1932 on, as Per Albin Hansson its first government formed until 2006, when the Social Democrats, though still by far the strongest party, with 34.99 % imports its worst result since the introduction of universal suffrage, they were only in the years 1976 -82 and 1991-94 have not been in government.
Current Government
The current government coalition, in which the four bourgeois parties of the Alliance for Sweden are represented, came after the general election to office in 2006. In her first term she could rely on a majority in the Reichstag. Since the general election in 2010, however, she officiates as a minority government.
Twelve of the 23 ministers belong to as Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt of the Moderate samlingspartiet (M); four ministers, the liberal Folkpartiet nutrition (FP), including the party president Jan Björklund as Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. The Centerpartiet (C ) also provides four ministers, with the party leader Annie Lööf as Minister of Economic Affairs; the Kristdemokraterna (KD ) represent three, including the party leader Göran Hägglund as Minister of Social Affairs. Thirteen members of the Cabinet are women.