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HELSINKI — Sweden’s left-leaning minority government faced a crisis Wednesday after a populist party said it would support four opposition parties in a no-confidence vote against it over one of the largest security breaches in the country.

If passed, the vote would force the ouster of three government ministers and could lead to the resignation of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven’s Cabinet.

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Lofven called an emergency Cabinet meeting after the head of the maverick anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats said they would back the right-wing opposition parties in a no-confidence vote, giving them the required majority to oust the ministers.

“There are only two alternatives, either a new election or he himself (Lofven) resigns,” Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson said.

Leaders of the opposition parties, known as the Alliance, announced their plan earlier Wednesday following reports last week that a 2015 leak allowed IT workers abroad to access confidential information in Sweden’s government and police database. The security breach allegedly came about when the Transport Agency outsourced some of its services to IBM in the Czech Republic.