Sweden’s centre-left leader fails in second bid to form government

• Social Democratic leader Magdalena Andersson says ‘conditions not in place’ to form government, prolonging deadlock.
• The leader of Sweden’s left-wing Social Democratic Party, Magdalena Andersson, has said her efforts to form a government have failed, prolonging a political deadlock a month after parliamentary elections.
• Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, Andersson said talks with the three other parties in the country’s left-wing bloc had hit an impasse.