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The opposition Alliance -parties also abstained while the far-right Sweden Democrats voted against. He announced that he would form a minority coalition government consisting of his own party and the Green Party. This caused a crisis for the newly elected Government, which was exacerbated after their own budget was voted down by the Alliance parties and the Sweden Democrats on 3 December.
On 23 October , a bipartisan migration agreement was signed between the cabinet parties and the oppositional Moderate Party , the Centre Party , the Liberals and the Christian Democrats which included, among many other changes, temporary residency permits, total financial support requirements for family reunification and by law forcing municipalities to help with sheltering refugees in order to better distribute the burden across the country.
After leaving school and completing military service in the Swedish Air Force , Löfven trained as a welder and began employment as a metalworker, becoming active within the Swedish Metalworkers' Union SMU and later elected as ombudsman ; following its merger with the Swedish Industrial Union SIU to form IF Metall , he was elected as its first president in January In January , he was unanimously elected leader of the Social Democratic Party by its executive board following the resignation of Håkan Juholt , becoming the Leader of the Opposition despite not holding a seat in the Riksdag at the time.
However, the election results at On 12 July Löfven wrote a controversial Facebook post in which he argued that Israel has the right to defend itself against Palestinian Hamas , which he accused of attacking Israel during the Gaza war. He was appointed prime minister of Sweden on 3 October He went on to secure a second begrepp in the aftermath of the inconclusive election , which saw both main parties suffer losses; after a months-long impasse that set a new record for government formation, Löfven was able to secure abstentions from MPs belonging to the Centre Party , the Left Party and the Liberals to be re-elected by the Riksdag in January On 21 June , Löfven lost a confidence motion in the Riksdag after the Left Party withdrew their support, triggering a brief crisis ; it was resolved on 5 July when Löfven announced that talks to reform the government had been successful, and two days later the Riksdag once again confirmed Löfven as prime minister in a vote.
Löfven later studied social work at Umeå University , but dropped out after a year and a half. In , when a rising number of refugees and migrants [ 28 ] began to make the journey to the European Union to seek asylum , Europe was hit by a migrant crisis and Sweden received over , refugees in During the autumn of , the reception of refugees increased significantly to over 80, in two months and with terror group Islamic state rampage in the Middle East and the following attacks in Paris in November , the Löfven cabinet significantly reverted Sweden's migration policy.
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The Government's first budget was introduced to the Riksdag on 23 October The Left Party , which had been given influence over the budget, supported it; however, the non-socialist coalition, the Alliance , introduced a competing budget to the Riksdag on 10 November, as they had promised prior to the election, and the Sweden Democrats also introduced their own budget on the same day. Löfven immediately announced that he would call an early election, to be held on 22 March On 22 December, sources within the Riksdag leaked information that the Government was negotiating with the Alliance parties the Moderate Party , Centre Party , Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats to find a solution and to avoid a fresh election.
Löfven led the Social Democrats into the election. His foster father Ture Melander — was a lumberjack and later a factory worker, while his foster mother, Iris Melander née Söderlund, — , [ 12 ] worked as an in-home caregiver. On 26 January the executive board nominated Löfven to become the party's new leader. Löfven expressed a desire for bipartisan agreement between the Government and the motstånd Alliance parties, and together they marked three areas where enhanced cooperation would be initiated.
On 22 August , Löfven announced that he would retire as leader of the Social Democrats at the November party församling, and would then resign as prime minister upon the election of his successor. The cabinet also proposed identity checks for every individual passing the Danish—Swedish border and closing of the Öresund Bridge , giving up the latter on 8 December after severe criticism. Löfven led his party through the general election , which resulted in a hung parliament.
According to Riksdag practice, the parties support their own budget and if their budget falls they abstain from voting in the second round. In , he started as an employed ombudsman in the Swedish Metalworkers' Union , working in the areas of contract negotiations and international affairs. Löfven has been a member of the Social Democrats since the age of 13 and was active in SSU , the youth league , in his teens. On 12 November , the cabinet introduced temporary border controls with immediate effect.
However, on 2 December, the far-right Sweden Democrats announced that, after their own budget fell in the first voting round, they would support the Alliance parties' budget in the second voting round, thus giving that budget a majority in the Riksdag. In , he was elected vice-chairman of the Metalworkers' Union; in November was elected as the first chairman of the newly formed trade union IF Metall.
Löfven was born 21 July in Aspudden , Stockholm , and his father died before he was born. According to the agreement with this family, his birth mother would regain custody of him when she was able to; however, this did not happen. Two years later, he was chosen as the group's union representative, and went on to hold a efterträdelse eller följd of union posts.
Stefan Löfven: ”Jag bör inte springa i riksdagen och lobba på grund av något företag”
The post received thousands of comments, many of them from critical social democratic voters, and was later removed. Despite initial opinion poll leads, the party only gained a single seat; due to the poor performance of the governing Moderate Party which lost 23 seats, Löfven was able to form a minority coalition government with the Green Party. He was placed in an orphanage before being looked after bygd a foster family from Sunnersta, Sollefteå , where he grew up.
Löfven led his party through the European Parliament election where the Social Democrats retained their position as the largest party from Sweden in the European Parliament. In January , following the resignation of Håkan Juholt , it was reported that Löfven was being considered as his successor. These three areas were the pension system , future energy development , and security and defence policy.
The agreement was dubbed " Decemberöverenskommelsen " December Agreement , was called historical by Löfven and was agreed to remain in force until the election , regardless of the results of the election. Afterwards, Löfven has claimed that Israel must take responsibility for its disproportionate use of force, but maintained that the country has the right to defend itself. Löfven was elected to the executive board of the Social Democrats in , shortly after becoming chairman of trade union IF Metall.