Swedish right-wing Prime Minister candidate Ulf Kristersson said on Thursday he had abandoned attempts to form a government just two days after the speaker asked him to try to do so.
"The parliamentary conditions for forming a new centre-right government do not exist," he told TT news agency.
Given the composition of the current parliament, Kristersson had been widely expected to struggle to gain sufficient backing.
(Reporting by Johan Ahlander; editing by Niklas Pollard)
