Barely two weeks ago, the government convened the Defense Committee for deliberations due to the tightened security situation.

The first meeting began shortly after lunch on Wednesday.

Then the Minister of Defense and the representatives of the parliamentary parties in the Defense Committee met to discuss the rearmament of the defense, and possible reinforcements already in the spring budget.

- We have a sharply deteriorating external situation to deal with and we must strengthen the defense, both in the long and short term, says the Moderates' defense policy spokesman Pål Jonson after the meeting.

He does not believe that it is enough to re-plan and take money that was intended for 2023 and 2025 to meet short-term needs.

If it becomes relevant with more money for the defense, however, Minister of Defense Peter Hultqvist (S) does not want to go into.

- We have 27.5 billion and the assignment is now about making redistributions within the framework that applies, he says.

More money

Hultqvist also emphasizes in a letter to the Armed Forces that the advance that can be made must be "accommodated within a given financial framework for the period 2022–2025".

Other bourgeois parties are, however, critical of this.

- New money is needed, it is not possible to conjure with your knees, even if they have thought so, says KD's defense policy spokesman Mikael Oscarsson on his way to the meeting.

Liberal spokesman Allan Widman is a little more cautious.

- Now we need to make a joint analysis and produce the proposals.

Then we have to produce the final sum for what it is about for financial resources, he says before the meeting.

To the news agency TT, however, he clarified that it is necessary to push for new money.

- If you are going to do something in the near future when it comes to personal equipment, weapons and ammunition, to quote the commander-in-chief, it should be healthy money, not something you take from the future, then this construction begins which the defense decision means to break into its components , he says.

The moderates have been clearest with the demand that an extra SEK 3 billion should be invested in defense this year.