Swedish PM Lofven says to step down in November
Politics
22 August, 2021, 05:35 pm
Last modified: 22 August, 2021, 05:38 pm
"I have informed the party's executive committee and the nomination committee's chairman that I want to leave the role as party leader at the party congress in November and thereafter also retire as prime minister," Lofven said
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven addresses a news conference, after parliament passed a bill giving the government the temporary power to adopt new measures to slow the COVID-19 pandemic, in Stockhom, Sweden January 8, 2021. Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency/via
Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven of the Social Democrats party said on Sunday he would resign later this year ahead of general elections in September 2022.
"I have informed the party's executive committee and the nomination committee's chairman that I want to leave the role as party leader at the party congress in November and thereafter also retire as prime minister," Lofven said in an annual summer speech.
Lofven has been prime minister since 2014.
"In next year's election campaign the Social Democrats will be led by someone else than me," he said. "Everything has an end and I want to give my successor the very best conditions."
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