Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven will return to his role as Swedish prime minister, leading a Social Democrat-Green Party coalition after parliament voted on the proposal on Friday.

In order to pass the vote, for which The Local was present at Sweden’s parliament, Löfven required fewer than 175 of Sweden’s 349 MPs to vote against him.

He received the backing of his party and the Green Party (115 MPs in total), while most MPs from the Centre Party, Liberal Party and Left Party (77 MPs) abstained from the vote, although one Centre Party MP voted ‘no’. The Moderate Party, Christian Democrats and Sweden Democrats all voted against.

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This result was expected after after parliamentary speaker Andreas Norlén formally nominated Löfven as prime minister two days earlier.

Löfven is set to announce the ministers in the new government on Monday.