2025-02-192024/25:CU8 · p.7CUCivil law & housing

Right of first refusal

New pre-emption law for socially critical properties

What's at stake: The question is how society can secure access to properties important for purposes such as defense or countering organized crime, since the earlier pre-emption law was abolished.

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

What the vote decides

Parliament weighs whether the government should quickly bring forward a proposal for a new pre-emption law giving the state, regions and municipalities the ability to acquire socially critical properties, or whether to instead wait for the ongoing processing of a recently submitted inquiry.

Yes Yes — the committee proposal

The Committee notes that an inquiry has recently proposed a state and a municipal pre-emption law, giving the state a right of first refusal when acquiring properties for defense and municipalities the same right when acquiring properties to counter organized crime, and that the report is being processed within the Government Offices. The Committee sees no grounds to pre-empt that ongoing process, and the motions are therefore opposed.

No No — the reservations

Reservation 8 (S)

S argues that society should own and control socially critical buildings and areas, such as prisons, municipal buildings and hospitals, and that a modern pre-emption law is needed giving municipalities, regions and the state the ability to act. The government should quickly bring forward a proposal for new pre-emption legislation along the lines of the recently submitted inquiry's proposal.

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

V–

S–

MP–

C–

L–

KD–

M–

SD–

YesNoAbstainAbsent

What do the votes mean here?

Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).

No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 8 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
V	–	Abstain 0/0/19/5
Sown reservation	–	No 0/90/0/16
MP	–	Yes 13/0/0/5
C	–	Yes 21/0/0/3
L	–	Yes 12/0/0/4
KD	–	Yes 14/0/0/5
M	–	Yes 57/0/0/11
SD	–	Yes 63/0/0/9

Committee proposal

The Riksdag rejects the motions 2024/25:534 by Ingela Nylund Watz and Joakim Sandell (both S), 2024/25:1588 by Lawen Redar (S), 2024/25:1992 by Nooshi Dadgostar et al. (V) motion 14, 2024/25:2514 by Mathias Tegnér et al. (S) motion 8 and 2024/25:3075 by Jennie Nilsson et al. (S) motion 17.

Original (Swedish)

Riksdagen avslår motionerna 2024/25:534 av Ingela Nylund Watz och Joakim Sandell (båda S), 2024/25:1588 av Lawen Redar (S), 2024/25:1992 av Nooshi Dadgostar m.fl. (V) yrkande 14, 2024/25:2514 av Mathias Tegnér m.fl. (S) yrkande 8 och 2024/25:3075 av Jennie Nilsson m.fl. (S) yrkande 17.

Riksdag decision: The Riksdag rejected approximately 40 proposals in motions about property law. The proposals were submitted during the general motion period 2024 and deal with, among other things, leaseholds, expropriation compensation, right of first refusal and land acquisition legislation. The Riksdag refers primarily to the fact that work is already underway on many of the issues covered by the proposals.

Counter-proposals

The counter-proposal wants municipalities, regions, and the state to have the ability to acquire key properties through a modernized pre-emption law to secure socially important interests. (S) — Reservation 8

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Sources and documents

The committee report on riksdagen.se (2024/25:CU8)
Committee report full text (HC01CU8)
Per-MP voting data (API)
Case status (API)

Documents under consideration

Motion 2024/25:1000 — Införande av bindande bud i bostads- och fastighetsaffärer av Rickard Nordin (C)
Motion 2024/25:1370 — Skog, skogsbruk och ekonomi av Martin Kinnunen m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1371 — Politik för stärkt äganderätt av Martin Kinnunen m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1388 — Fastighetsrätt av Mikael Eskilandersson m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1588 — Införande av en moderniserad förköpslag för kommuner vad gäller samhällsviktig och strategisk mark av Lawen Redar (S)
Motion 2024/25:1608 — Lantmäteriets kostnader på landsbygden av Anne-Li Sjölund och Helena Lindahl (båda C)
Motion 2024/25:1753 — Rivning och återbruk inom byggsektorn av Katarina Luhr m.fl. (MP)
Motion 2024/25:1864 — Årlig indexuppräkning av tomträttsavgälder för bostadshus av Kristina Axén Olin m.fl. (M)
Motion 2024/25:1927 — Ökad nationell självförsörjning med hållbart jordbruk av Kajsa Fredholm m.fl. (V)
Motion 2024/25:1992 — Bostadspolitik, planering och byggande av Nooshi Dadgostar m.fl. (V)
Motion 2024/25:2370 — Lantmäteriets handläggningstider av Malin Höglund m.fl. (M)
Motion 2024/25:2431 — Lantmäteriets handläggningstider av Saila Quicklund (M)
Motion 2024/25:2514 — Stockholm som hållbar tillväxtmotor av Mathias Tegnér m.fl. (S)
Motion 2024/25:2588 — Stärkt äganderätt vid utvecklingen av el- och kommunikationsnät av Adam Reuterskiöld m.fl. (M)
Motion 2024/25:2647 — Bättre villkor för svenska bönder och bygder av Aron Emilsson (SD)
Motion 2024/25:2815 — Ersättningsnivåer vid markintrång av Sten Bergheden (M)
Motion 2024/25:2823 — Effektivisering av Lantmäteriet av Sten Bergheden (M)
Motion 2024/25:2947 — En infrastruktur som fungerar i hela landet av Ulrika Heie m.fl. (C)
Motion 2024/25:2950 — Bostäder och samhällsbyggnad av Alireza Akhondi m.fl. (C)
Motion 2024/25:2953 — Jord, skog och jakt av Helena Lindahl m.fl. (C)

Source: The Swedish Parliament