Stockholm: The Swedish Centre and Liberal parties have rejected a proposal to form a government made by Moderate Party Leader Ulf Kristersson, a further setback in his effort to form a coalition before next week.

Centre party leader Annie Loof said her party would vote "no" to a Moderate one-party government, which Kristersson had proposed on Friday.

Liberal leader Jan Bjorklund later said that he prefers keeping the four-party Alliance together.

Both Loof and Bjorklund said they wanted to see an Alliance government based on cooperation with the Social Democrats and/or the Green Party and that they at this point won't support any government that gives the nationalist Sweden Democrats any influence over policy making. They also proposed that the speaker of the parliament by Tuesday's deadline should give Kristersson more time to form a government.