Reinfeldt II Cabinet 2010–2014
Four-party Allians för Sverige minority coalition (M+C+FP+KD) under Fredrik Reinfeldt, formed after the Sweden Democrats' first Riksdag entry stripped the bloc of its absolute majority. Defined by a cross-bloc 2011 migration agreement with Miljöpartiet, the 2012 Saudi-affair defence-ministry crisis, and an active cordon sanitaire against SD.
The Reinfeldt II Cabinet, headed by Fredrik Reinfeldt, took office on 5 October 2010 after Allians för Sverige won re-election but lost its absolute majority — the Sweden Democrats crossed the 4 % threshold and entered the Riksdag for the first time, leaving neither traditional bloc with 175 seats. The same four parties continued under Reinfeldt as a minoritetsregering.
The cabinet maintained an active cordon sanitaire against SD, building case-by-case majorities with the centre-left rather than accepting parliamentary support from the right. The most consequential illustration was the 2011 migration agreement with Miljöpartiet — a cross-bloc deal that gave the Greens influence over the Alliance’s migration line in exchange for keeping SD irrelevant on the issue.
The cabinet was rocked in March 2012 by Saudiaffären, when media revealed secret FOI plans (Project Simoom) for a Swedish-built weapons factory in Saudi Arabia. Defence Minister Sten Tolgfors resigned on 29 March 2012. The continuing fallout from the 2009 state-owned Vattenfall acquisition of Nuon also returned in 2013, costing the utility’s CEO and producing persistent opposition scrutiny.
Allians för Sverige was defeated in the 14 September 2014 election; Reinfeldt resigned the day after the vote and was replaced by the Löfven I Cabinet on 3 October 2014.