Kristersson, 58, was elected by a narrow 3-vote majority, after announcing on Friday a deal to form a governing coalition that includes his moderate Christian Democrats and Liberal party.
The government will be subsidized in parliament through its far-right ally, the nationalist and anti-immigration Sweden Democrats.
“I am grateful and pleased for the trust I have earned from Parliament and I am also significantly honoured by the responsibilities that lie ahead,” Kristersson told a news conference after Monday’s vote.
He is expected to provide his new one on Tuesday.
The Sweden Democrats were the winners of the hotly contested general election on September 11.
They have become the largest party of the moment with a record 20. 5% of the vote, the Social Democrats, who have governed Swedish politics since the 1930s.
The right-wing bloc now has 176 seats in parliament, compared to 173 for its left-wing rivals.
On Friday, Kristersson’s four-party alliance unveiled a 62-page roadmap heavily influenced by the far-right agenda. He is a first crackdown on crime and immigration and the structure of new nuclear reactors.
“Sweden is a country that has several parallel crises at the same time,” Kristersson said.
Swedish Democrat leader Jimmie Akesson told parliament that his party would have liked to be in government and hold ministerial posts, the policies pursued through the coalition being the most important.
“It’s what the government does that’s important, not how the government looks,” he said.
Akesson accused previous governments, right and left, of mismanaging the country.
“We are in a position for a new government . . . Because we have secured, through negotiations, that he will do the obligatory thing to counter this trend,” he said.
In its roadmap, the new government said it intended to reduce the number of refugees resettled in Sweden through UNHCR from 6,400 last year to just 900 a year in its four-year term, introduce incentives to inspire migrants to return home and explore the option of expelling foreigners for “misconduct. “
It will also explore the option of keeping asylum seekers in transit centres in their application process, abandon Sweden’s target of spending 1% of its gross domestic source of income on aid for progression and introduce a national ban on begging.
While the quartet has presented a united front, its constituent parties have diverged on a number of key policy areas.
Major concessions were made in their joint agreement, basically to satisfy the demands of the far right.
One of the main themes of the election crusade is Sweden’s fight to combat the rise in gang shootings.
“We will do everything we can to prevent this,” Kristersson said Friday.
The roadmap included frame-searches in some disadvantaged areas, harsher consequences for repeat offenders, double sentences for certain crimes and anonymous witnesses.
All these elements were primary concessions in favor of the small center-right liberality.
The Sweden Democrats’ significant influence on the quadripartite agreement has caused tension within the Liberals, which is also imperative to Kristersson’s survival.
Since his management has a small majority of 3 seats in parliament, it would take a small number of disgruntled MPs for the government to collapse.
Some members of the Liberal Party, adding the party’s youth league, suggested MPs vote against Kristersson on Monday, that did not happen.
Outgoing Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, leader of the Social Democrats, reached out to the Liberals in hopes of forming a left-wing majority bloc in parliament with their support.
(AFP)