Big news out of Sweden.

Italy is next:

It’s a total shocker the voters flooded the polls to reject… this:

The female Swedish prime minister has officially resigned:

After laughter, comes tears.

What a pity.

How did that work out for them?

Story from Reuters:

Sweden’s Social Democrat prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, accepted defeat on Wednesday after a close-fought election, handing the four-party right-wing opposition bloc victory and first go at forming a new government.

A handful of votes remain to be counted, but Andersson, who became Sweden’s first woman prime minister last year said the results showed the right bloc had won.

“I will therefore tomorrow ask the speaker to be relieved of my post,” Andersson told reporters during a news conference.

The election marks a watershed in Swedish politics with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, shunned by all the major parties when they first entered parliament in 2010, on the threshold of gaining influence over government policy.

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