The speaker of the Swedish parliament Andreas Norlén gave the leader of the Social Democrats, Stefan Löfven, the mandate to form a government on Monday.

The incumbent prime minister is being handed the second of four mandates.

Since the Swedish elections in September, the Swedish centre-right has tried to form a minority government without the centre-left. The numbers do not add up without the participation of the far-right.

Over the next two weeks, the Social Democrat prime minister Lofven w...