Fredrik Reinfeldt announces his resignation.
He will step down as prime minister in the morning – and as leader of the Moderate Party in ours.
– We did not reach a final conclusion, he noted late in the evening.
Just after 23 o’clock stood a noticeably taken Fredrik Reinfeldt on stage at the Moderates’ election night party in central Stockholm.
He admitted Alliance’s loss – and announced his resignation.
– The election campaign is over. Swedish people have made their decision. The Red-Green now has more seats than the Alliance. Therefore, I will tomorrow submit my resignation. It has been fantastic years where the Alliance has taken responsibility for Sweden, he said.
He also announced that he will step down as leader of the Moderate Party.
– My hope is that the journey continues. But it will be without my participation, I’m going to spring to hand the presidency to someone else.
“Great time in Swedish politics”
The Conservatives have done a katastrofval and slopes of 6.7 percentage points compared with the 2010 election Total M got 23.2 percent of the votes.
While the Alliance lands at 39 percent of the vote and lose the government.
A large part of the speech devoted Reinfeldt also to pay tribute to their Alliance colleagues – and the policies that the government has brought in the last eight years.
– I am proud that I stood up for my values. It has been an amazing time in Swedish politics. I’m really proud of the people in the Moderate Party, the Alliance. We feel like a family, said Reinfeldt.
– Jan, Annie and Steve. You know that Maud and Lars also has been involved in this. We stood up for each other, we think very similarly.
“Broder in politics”
Reinfeldt also took the opportunity to pay tribute to Kent Persson and Minister for Finance Anders Borg.
– He has been my brother in politics for ten years.
On the other coalition parties valvakor greeted the news with dismay and disappointment. On election night party Moderates stood several of the ministers with tears in his eyes.
Beatrice Ask describes Reinfeldt’s departure as very sad.
Muf President Erik Bengtzboe says to Aftonbladet that Reinfeldt’s statement came as “a big shock”.
Henrik von Celsing, transport policy officer at moderate parliamentary office, has tears in his eyes when TT hits him on the Moderates’ election night party.
– It’s a terrible shame. I’m terribly sorry for this. But such is the democracy, he says.
He says the election defeat and resign Reinfeldt is something he had not anticipated.
– I’ll be honest and say, I have always counted that we would win, and that he would remain in office.
After the speech disappeared Reinfeldt directly behind the stage with co-workers and family. He then left through the garage in the car without talking to the media, reports Aftonbladet Pär Karlsson, who is on site at the M-vigil.
Hailed by Alliance colleagues
Late in the evening kept the Alliance party leader speech the respective election night party.
When Jan Björklund thanked Fredrik Reinfeldt for his effort erupted cheers at Liberal Party election night party.
– We have not been able to face the left wind and we have not managed to counter the extreme right wind that had blown in this election, said Bjorklund.
He talked about turning adversity into success and look forward.
– The challenge that now lies before us are yet larger than the one we had so far, he said.
Christian Democrat Göran Hägglund talked about the Alliance as “an entirely new phenomenon” in Swedish politics.
– Alliance went to the polls together, we have lost together and we will put a budget together, said Hagglund.
Centre Party Annie Loof gave a tribute to the party’s whales together and celebrated even those who voted for C.
– You have voted for more jobs, improve the environment, the world’s greenest cities and the most modern rural.
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