The forthcoming budget vote looks, as in recent years, going to be a chaotic story.

But there was a time when the budget process was a much less dramatic time, where the government could in principle always count on getting through its budget in its entirety.

Everything changed in 2013, when the opposition joined forces to stop the government's decision to cut the state tax for higher paid employees.

Anna Kinberg Batra, who was then chairman of the finance committee, was outraged.

It all broke with practice.

"I reacted strongly"

Magdalena Andersson, then the Social Democrats' economic policy spokesperson, was the most driving force to stop the tax cut.

- I got really angry.

We had agreed for a long time at that time, for about 20 years, that it was important to stick together around the forms of the budget.

You can have different governments and think differently, but we used to agree across the block boundaries that there should be order and order about how decisions are actually made, says Anna Kinberg Batra in Politikbyrån and continues:

- That has changed enormously since then, and this was the first step there.

This was also the first time the Sweden Democrats gained budgetary influence, to which I reacted strongly.

"Magdalena Andersson fought very hard"

Anna Kinberg Batra especially remembers a meeting in the Riksdag's Finance Committee where the journalists flocked.

- Often they do not care very much about the committee work, but now it became clear that it was in the Riksdag that this was to be decided.

So it was full speed ahead.

- Magdalena Andersson was very stubborn, fought very hard and won in the end.

According to Anna Kinberg Batra, the Social Democrats carried out "several attacks" on the budget, the first of which failed.

- The Social Democrats and the Sweden Democrats lost the first attempt because Mikael Damberg came running too late.

He was the group leader and had been to another meeting.

Nowadays, the rules have been changed so that you have more time to get between meetings.

"Regretted afterwards"

Since then, both the December agreement and the January agreement, which aimed at a minority government being able to get its budget through, have fallen.

Anna Kinberg Batra believes that the Social Democrats now regret the decision from 2013.

- A year later, they were very upset.

They regretted it afterwards in the autumn of 2014 when they came and begged us to help them stay put.