Marta Stenevi, co-leader of Sweden's Green Party arrives to attend a TV debate at SvT (Swedish Television) on May 2, 2021 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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The Swedish Green party said on Wednesday it would quit the ruling coalition with the Social Democrats after the center-left coalition's budget bill was defeated in parliament only hours after Magdalena Andersson was elected new prime minister.
"We wanted to have power in order to conduct green policies," Green co-leader Marta Stenevi told a news conference.
"It is ... not the Green Party's job in politics to implement a budget negotiated with the Sweden Democrats."
The government budget was rejected in favor of a rival bill put forward by three right-wing parties, including the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats.