Global InformationBudgetpromenaden information
 Finance minister (later Prime Minister) Magdalena Andersson carrying the fall budget bill to the parliament on the 23 October 2014. | |
| Date | April (spring budget) September–October (fall budget) |
|---|---|
| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Type | Political event |
Budgetpromenaden, or the budget walk, is a traditional biannual procession when the Swedish finance minister walk with a copy of the budget bill from the Ministry of Finance to the Riksdag (the Parliament), a distance of 400 metres (440 yd).
The minister is followed by a large gathering of journalists and various political activists and is usually given extensive media coverage. Sometime minor incidents occur, like in April 2001 when a 21-year-old threw a cake on then finance minister Bosse Ringholm.
The physical budget bill has traditionally been delivered in paper form, called "den nådiga luntan" (English: "the gracious tome"). Later social democratic governments have made a point of using digital storage media such as CD's from 1996, and later flash drives. When Sweden got a center-right government in 2006 the new finance minister Anders Borg returned to paper tomes. During 2017's budget walk, finance minister Magdalena Andersson carried a tome of 3 906 pages that weighed 10.5 kilograms (23 lb).[1]
- ^ "Lugn budgetpromenad under Säpokontroll" [Quiet budget walk under Säpo control]. Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). 20 September 2017. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2017.