In a democracy where margins can be measured in whispers, Sweden's Ulf Kristersson stepped down as prime minister after his right-wing coalition fell just 50,000 votes short of a nation of ten million — a reminder that political eras end not always with upheaval, but with arithmetic. Magdalena Andersson and her centre-left opposition, heirs to a Social Democratic tradition that has shaped Sweden for most of the past century, now stand at the threshold of government. Yet the work of governing is rarely as clean as the work of winning, and the coalition she must assemble from parties of divergen