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Sweden's government has abandoned plans to hold a snap election in March 2015, after crisis talks between Social Democrat Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and the country's four centre-right parties known as the Alliance.
"We who are here, are prepared to take responsibility for how Sweden is to be governed. Constructive talks have taken place in the last few days," Prime Minister Löfven told reporters at a press conference in Stockholm on Saturday morning.
Löfven made the comments flanked by the leaders of the Alliance which is made up of the Moderate Party - which led the previous coalition government under Fredrik Reinfeldt - the Centre Party, the Liberal Party and the Christian Democrats. Also present were the co-leaders of the Green Party, which is currently in coalition with Löfven's centre-left Social Democrats.