Sweden's PM resigns as centre-left bloc wins narrow election victory

In a country nearly split down the middle, Sweden has turned a page — if only by the narrowest of margins. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson resigned Thursday after his centre-right coalition fell three seats short of the 176 secured by the centre-left opposition, with just over fifty thousand votes separating the two blocs across an entire nation. Magdalena Andersson, who has held the office before, now inherits both a mandate and a maze: a coalition of parties whose visions for Sweden's future are, in several important respects, genuinely incompatible. The election answered one question and ope