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Шаблон:Infobox 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 Шаблон:Convert.

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 Шаблон:Convert.[1]

Notable budget walks

  • 20 September 1999 - Bosse Ringholm's first budget bill delivered as both CD and paper tome.[2]
  • 17 April 2001 - A 21-year-old throws a cake on Bosse Ringholm.[3]
  • 14 April 2005 - Pär Nuder's first budget walk, the budget bill is delivered as CD.
  • 20 September 2005 - The CD is replaced with a USB flash drive, that Nuder carries in a blue ribbon around his neck.
  • 16 October 2006 - Anders Borg delivers his first budget bill as paper tomes in purple binders.[4]
  • 23 October 2014 - Magdalena Andersson delivers her first budget bill.

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