2026-04-222025/26:UU6 · p.7UUForeign affairs

Motions processed in simplified manner

Simplified handling of motion proposals on security policy

What's at stake: The point determines whether parliament will revisit parts of security policy - support for Ukraine, work within NATO, the EU, the UN and the OSCE, the climate-security link, and the ability to meet threats below the threshold of armed attack - or hold to the line already decided. It concerns Sweden's security and therefore everyone living in the country, as well as the credibility of Sweden's international commitments.

Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.

What the vote decides

The question is whether motion proposals on security policy should be rejected in simplified form, because the committee holds that parliament has already set the line in the defence and security policy decision, or whether they should instead be examined on their merits and be able to change policy.

Yes Yes — the committee proposal

The committee rejects the proposals in simplified form and stands by the line parliament has already set. It agrees with the government's assessment in the 2026 statement of foreign policy that this is a time of transition, in which the security architecture, international rules and free trade are being challenged. It shares the joint foreign affairs and defence committee's conclusion in the total defence decision for 2025-2030 that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the most extensive military aggression in Europe since the Second World War, and stresses the importance of continued political, military and economic support for Ukraine. Within NATO, the EU, the UN, the OSCE and the Council of Europe, Sweden is to defend a rules-based order, the European security order, democracy, freedom, human rights and gender equality, and to work for the UN resolutions on women, peace and security. The committee agrees that climate change is a threat in itself that increases tensions and instability, that political dialogue and diplomacy are important tools, and that Sweden's ability to meet crises, threats and hostile acts below the threshold of armed attack needs to grow.

Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.

VSMPCLKDMSD
YesNoAbstainAbsent

What do the votes mean here?

Yes The committee proposal: Riksdagen avslår de motionsyrkanden som finns upptagna under denna punkt i utskottets förteckning över avstyrkta motionsyrkanden.

No Rejecting the committee proposal.

Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.

What each plan points to — and how the party voted

For each party: the vote its own election manifesto and party programme point to in this case, next to how the party actually voted. A plan can only point to Yes or No; a party can also abstain.

PlanVoteConfidenceEvidence
V–Yes 16/0/0/6
S–Yes 90/0/0/16
MP–Yes 13/0/0/5
C–Yes 20/0/0/4
L–Yes 11/0/0/5
KD–Yes 14/0/0/5
M–Yes 55/0/0/11
SD–Yes 60/0/0/10

Committee proposal

The Riksdag rejects the motion demands listed under this item in the committee's list of rejected motion demands.

Original (Swedish)

Riksdagen avslår de motionsyrkanden som finns upptagna under denna punkt i utskottets förteckning över avstyrkta motionsyrkanden.

Riksdag decision: The Riksdag rejected 51 proposals in motions on security policy and disarmament from the general motion periods 2024 and 2025. The proposals concern, among other things, Sweden's NATO membership, nuclear weapons, international operations and the defence cooperation agreement between Sweden and the USA, the so-called DCA agreement. The Riksdag refers, among other things, to ongoing work within the areas addressed by the proposals.

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Source: The Swedish Parliament