Talk:Swedish governmental line of succession

"Served the longest time"

The difficulty here concerns the phrase "the one who has served the longest time" in the Instrument of Government Ch. 7 Sec. 8. Does this mean the one who has served the longest time in the current government or the one who has the longest experience of serving as a member of the government, irrespective of terms? The latter seems to be the most natural interpretation. I will try to find some legal literature to confirm this interpretation, but it might be difficult to find on the Internet. (I'm not living in Sweden at the moment.) If this is the case, we need to account for the fact that Bildt and Odell served in the Bildt government 1991-94. David ekstrand (talk) 00:16, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't think there is any uncertainty that it is the total time served that counts - det av de tjänstgörande statsråden som har varit statsråd längst tid. Tomas e (talk) 16:14, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

The Speaker

Also, it was a bit unclear what the Speaker of the Riksdag was doing in this list. It's not the case that he will take over if none of the members of the government can serve, so I removed him. David ekstrand (talk) 00:22, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Maud Olofsson

Maud Olofsson is no longer a part of the government. Jan Björklund is deputy prime minister at the moment.

Wrong order

The list is in the wrong order at the moment. It seems that after the deputy prime minister, it is only ordered after the birth years of the ministers, which is wrong. Seniority comes first. Margot Wallström has been a minister for many years in the cabinets of Göran Persson and so has Ylva Johansson. however, I don't know the exact order to make it right. G.M. (talk) 22:01, 6 March 2015 (UTC)