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Sweden’s Social Democrats Got No-Confidenced Because They Tried to Remove Rent Controls
Sweden’s Social Democrat-led government is in crisis after its defeat in Monday’s no-confidence vote. It lost its left-wing support after it moved to abandon rent controls — showing how the neoliberalized wing of social democracy is undermining its own past achievements.