The authority form of higher-education institutions
What's at stake: The decision affects how much self-governance universities and colleges have over their own organisation, which in turn can affect the conditions for research and academic freedom.
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 the government's announced review of the institutions' authority form should go ahead, or whether the Riksdag should use a formal statement to establish that the authority form should not be reviewed.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee considers that the authority form of higher-education institutions should not be reviewed and directs a formal statement to that effect to the government; it stresses that the state's organisation for research and innovation funding already functions appropriately and is adapted to societal developments, which argues against changing the basic legal form of the institutions.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 92 (M, C, KD, L)
The reservation (M, C, KD, L) instead considers that the review of the institutions' authority form already announced by the government should go ahead, since institutional self-governance and the organisational conditions for the freedom of research and academic freedom are central to quality in education and research; they see no need for the Riksdag to use a formal statement to try to stop the already announced review.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
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L–
KD–
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YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: a formal request (tillkännagivande) telling the government to act on att lärosätenas myndighetsform inte bör utredas and rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 92 by M, C, KD, L.
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
–
Yes 18/0/0/6
S
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Yes 89/0/0/17
MP
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No 0/14/0/4
Cown reservation
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No 0/21/0/3
Lown reservation
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No 0/11/0/5
KDown reservation
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No 1/14/0/4
Mown reservation
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No 0/58/0/10
SD
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Yes 63/0/0/9
Broke with the party line
KDMikael Oscarsson(KD, Uppsala län)
Yes — party line: No
MPs whose vote differs from their party's majority position in this division. Marked with a dark ring in the chamber view.
Committee proposal
Parliament supports the committee's position that the organizational form of educational institutions should not be investigated and announces this to the Government. Thereby Parliament grants the motion
2024/25:3309 by Åsa Westlund et al. (S) request 17 and
rejects the motions
2024/25:2292 by Louise Meijer et al. (M) request 6,
2024/25:3167 by Anders Ådahl et al. (C) requests 15, 18 and 19 and
2024/25:3312 by Anders Ådahl et al. (C) requests 11 and 29.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen ställer sig bakom det som utskottet anför om att lärosätenas myndighetsform inte bör utredas och tillkännager detta för regeringen.
Därmed bifaller riksdagen motion
2024/25:3309 av Åsa Westlund m.fl. (S) yrkande 17 och
avslår motionerna
2024/25:2292 av Louise Meijer m.fl. (M) yrkande 6,
2024/25:3167 av Anders Ådahl m.fl. (C) yrkandena 15, 18 och 19 samt
2024/25:3312 av Anders Ådahl m.fl. (C) yrkandena 11 och 29.
Riksdag decision: The Government has presented research policy for 2025–2028. In connection with this, the Government also presented a proposal that would allow the Government to determine rules enabling universities to decide that employment with them can be combined with employment outside the university. Parliament approved the Government's proposal. Today, combined employment at universities applies only to certain positions such as specially trained doctors and dentists, and the Government's proposal means that the limitation to certain sectors or positions can be removed. The purpose of the legislative amendment is to increase opportunities for knowledge and skills exchange between individual researchers, educational institutions and other sectors of society, and thereby strengthen skills supply and competitiveness. The legislative amendment enters into force on 1 July 2025. Parliament also issued a so-called formal request (tillkännagivande) to the Government regarding the Government's announced inquiry into how appropriate the current organizational form is for state educational institutions. According to Parliament, an inquiry into organizational change should not be conducted. The formal request was issued in connection with a proposal in a supplementary motion. Parliament rejected the remaining motions, of which approximately 140 proposals come from the general motion period 2024.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants the government to address working conditions and workplace risks related to combined employment through a quick investigation. (M, C, KD, L) — Reservation 92