Fälldin resigns 1978

Fälldin resigns: On 18 October 1978, PM Thorbjörn Fälldin resigned after his Centre Party could not reconcile its anti-nuclear stance with the coalition partners’ insistence on continuing the nuclear programme.

In the chronology of the Swedish model, this anchors 1978 under Thorbjörn Fälldin / Ola Ullsten as a year shaped by institutions, public conflict, reform, or security policy rather than cabinet arithmetic alone.

Source confidence is B: the basic event is promoted, while broader interpretation still depends on the cited source tier and later primary-source upgrades.