The Armed Forces' basic organisation - possible new regiments
What's at stake: New regiments would mean a faster build-up of training capacity and military presence in specific locations, with security-policy significance not least in the Arctic region, but the question also touches on how the Armed Forces' overall structure and resources are prioritised and where training places for conscripts are located.
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 Parliament should declare to the government that the Armed Forces should establish two new regiments, in Kiruna and Kvarn, or whether the current basic organisation, already settled through broad consensus between Parliament, government and the Armed Forces, should remain unchanged without piecemeal amendments.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee shares the assessment that the location of the Armed Forces' logistics function (FMLOG) should change from Stockholm municipality to Stockholm county, but otherwise considers that the shared understanding between Parliament, government and the Armed Forces on the design of the basic organisation carries significant value. The committee sees no reason to reconsider individual parts of the already-settled whole and therefore rejects all motions on changes to the basic organisation, including the proposal for two new regiments in Kiruna and Kvarn.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 1 (S)
The reservation (S) calls on Parliament to declare to the government that two new regiments should be established, in Kiruna and in Kvarn. The reasoning is the need to establish training locations for soldiers over the long term, make a security-policy statement given the heightened situation in the Arctic region, and strengthen the production of war-fighting units; Kvarn near Linköping is highlighted as especially suitable because infrastructure such as training grounds and an urban-combat facility is already in place.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
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YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: Riksdagen avslår samtliga motioner om andra förändringar av Försvarsmaktens grundorganisation Därmed avslår riksdagen motionerna….
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 1 by S.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
V
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Yes 18/0/0/4
Sown reservation
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No 0/92/0/14
MP
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Yes 14/0/0/4
C
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Yes 19/0/0/5
L
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Yes 13/0/0/3
KD
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Yes 15/0/0/4
M
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Yes 59/0/0/9
SD
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Yes 61/0/0/11
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects all motions on other changes to the basic organization of the Swedish Armed Forces
Thereby the Riksdag rejects the motions
2025/26:105 by Björn Tidland (SD),
2025/26:400 by Gudrun Brunegård (KD),
2025/26:966 by Daniel Persson (SD),
2025/26:1069 by Fredrik Lundh Sammeli et al. (S) demand 2,
2025/26:1367 by Johan Löfstrand et al. (S),
2025/26:1908 by Anna Wallentheim (S),
2025/26:3443 by Ludvig Ceimertz et al. (M) demand 4, and
2025/26:3556 by Peter Hultqvist et al. (S) demands 6 and 7.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår samtliga motioner om andra förändringar av Försvarsmaktens grundorganisation
Därmed avslår riksdagen motionerna
2025/26:105 av Björn Tidland (SD),
2025/26:400 av Gudrun Brunegård (KD),
2025/26:966 av Daniel Persson (SD),
2025/26:1069 av Fredrik Lundh Sammeli m.fl. (S) yrkande 2,
2025/26:1367 av Johan Löfstrand m.fl. (S),
2025/26:1908 av Anna Wallentheim (S),
2025/26:3443 av Ludvig Ceimertz m.fl. (M) yrkande 4 och
2025/26:3556 av Peter Hultqvist m.fl. (S) yrkandena 6 och 7.
Riksdag decision: In total, approximately 225 billion kronor from the state budget for 2026 goes to the expenditure area Defense and civil emergency preparedness. The Riksdag approved the government's proposal for 2026 on how the money in the expenditure area should be distributed. Thereby the Riksdag rejected alternative budget proposals in motions.
Most money, just over 77 billion kronor, goes to force operations and preparedness. Just over 71.1 billion goes to procurement of materiel and facilities, and just over 39.1 billion goes to support for Ukraine. Money is distributed across an additional 22 areas.
The Riksdag also approved the government's proposal on financial authorizations and investment plans. Furthermore, the government is authorized to enter into an agreement with Latvia on the lease and sale of the Archer artillery system.
The Riksdag decides on the state budget in two stages. First, decisions are made on the framework for the 27 expenditure areas in the budget. The Riksdag made that decision on 26 November 2025. Thereafter, the Riksdag determines in a second stage how the money should be distributed within each expenditure area. This decision concerns stage two of the decision-making process.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants parliament to establish two new regiments, one in Kiruna and one in Kvarn. (S) — Reservation 1