Sweden is governed by a transitional government. On september 25, voted more than half of the newly elected members no to the question if prime minister Stefan Löfven had the parliamentary support.
Then the choice is Sweden in a complicated political position. The state needs a budget. A budget proposal should therefore be submitted to parliament by 15 november. It is now for the first time a övergångsregerings responsibility to do this.
A bill has been submitted at the same time as the formation of the government has been going on. A central task for this db is to give a new government the opportunity to design their own fiscal policy.
the Budget has been deleted from the provisions of the budget bill. There are also guidelines for how a government should act. It should stick to current or urgent matters. It should not put forward propositions that are politically controversial or that has a clear partisan direction. This also applies to the budget bill. The guidelines were revised in 2014 under former moderatledda the government. They have been used by the parliament’s constitutional affairs committee on audits.
the budget bill contains proposals for increased funding for maintenance of road and rail, to increase funding for the full-year effect of agreed barnbidragshöjningen which entered into force in march 2018 and increases in appropriations for the coast guard.
If not, parliament would decide if any new budget for the state before the end of the year would this year’s budget also apply for the next year.
the Transitional government has therefore decided that last autumn’s budget decisions for 2018 should be the starting point for our draft budget for 2019.
in Addition to this, the six principles drawn up for the drafting of the budget. This has been done with the guidance of applicable laws and guidelines. After contact with the Moderates, the Centre party, the Left party, the Christian democrats and the Liberals, the government has decided that these principles can be accepted by the parliament. Allocations have therefore been adjusted due to the following:
The usual funding principles used in the budgeting process in the government offices have also been applied.
the Result of this is that some activities will be favored, others disadvantaged in relation to earlier allocations. The application of the principles means, among other things, that the budget bill contains proposals for increased funding for maintenance of road and rail, to increase funding for the full-year effect of agreed barnbidragshöjningen which entered into force in march 2018 and increases in appropriations for the coast guard. The application means also, for example, to the permanent supplement of sek 5 billion per year to the local government sector as announced in the budget bill for the year 2018 are not included. This may be a new government if it wants to manage after the end of the year.
. What is currently submitted to the parliament is hardly any party idealbudget. It is a stripped-down budget bill that does not provide the expression of a political will. The transitional government has sought to give a new government the conditions to make its imprint. It is also this that we believe that the riksdag has called for. Thus, we assume that this budget will undergo more changes than usual in 2019.
