A spokeswoman told CNN that the dramatic move comes before Andersson fully takes office because she has yet to advise the King.
The Swedish Twitter account added her resignation following a budget defeat in Parliament on Wednesday, with lawmakers backing the opposition bill.
The Greens have also decided to leave the minority coalition government with Andersson’s Social Democrats, it said. “The current government will remain an interim government until a new one is formed,” it added.
Andersson, 54, said she had told the speaker of parliament she hoped to be reappointed prime minister at the head of a “one-party Social Democratic Party government”, Reuters reported.
All other Nordic countries – Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland – have elected female national leaders.
She holds a master’s degree in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and has served as the Swedish Minister of Finance since 2014.
She is also the second woman to head the center-left Social Democrats, according to the Swedish Twitter account.
Faced with great obstacles
Her predecessor Löfven ran by performing an elaborate juggling act to secure support from both the Left and Center parties in Parliament, even though they were not part of the government. League.
But the Center Party was worried about a deal with the Left Party and had said it would not support Andersson’s government in a vote on a finance bill proposed by three opposition parties.
“We cannot support a budget from a government that is moving far to the left, which we think the incoming government is doing,” Center party leader Annie Loof told reporters.
Löfven, who resigned earlier this month to give Andersson a chance to boost his party’s support ahead of next September’s general election, said he would not move on if he lost the budget vote.
Whoever leads Sweden will face significant challenges. Gang violence and shootings have wreaked havoc in many suburbs of Stockholm and other major cities.
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed loopholes in the much-vaunted welfare state, with a death rate much higher in Sweden than in neighboring Nordic countries. The government also needs to accelerate its transition to a “green” economy if it is to meet climate change goals.
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